Naruto: The Legendary Saiyan
Prologue: The Rebirth...
It's been thousand's of year's since the battle with the Shadow Dragon's and the Earth's guardian's, the Z warrior's. Ever since that fateful day, the earth's mightiest protector, Son Goku had finally fought his last fight and tiredly joined the newly rejuvenated Shenron and left his family behind to rest his tired soul of all the fighting forever joining Shenron taking the Dragon ball's with them so the human's can learn to rely on themselves instead of the magical dragon ball's.
Ever since then Goku's along with Vegeta's family and friends had continued to watch the earth as it's protector's in the steed of their old friend Goku and long later died, but given birth to children to take up the mantle watching the earth as it's protector's.
Even Vegeta, the Saiyan prince, and old friend of Goku's took up the title to keep his friend's legacy alive until his death as well. Since then the blood of the Saiyan race has all, but passed on through the generation's growing weaker and weaker, but still compressed and growing stronger through each generation.
That's when disaster struck as a terrible apocalypse stuck the earth almost bringing extinction to the human race. They survived though, but at the cost of the protector's of the earth's lifes when they sacrificed themselves to quell down the apocalypse to a minimum, but it also cost the earth's technology to completely go haywire before forever being lost to the world. As time passed the earth's barren wasteland, soon began to thrive and human's began to appear once more.
Time passed and civilizations raise and fell upon the passage of time and war, since then from what human's called upon was 'Heaven's Blessing' was that a large creature of godly proportion's with ten-tail's came from heaven. This entity was called many thing's as a Guardian, protector, Savior of Earth, but one name stuck with it for thousand's of years...
The Juubi...
The celestial being was a creation made from Kami, since the Kai's of old and new had all, but died out and the New God's have taken up the mantle of their old predecessors to watch over the universe, but the earth in particular that watched more sternly, since it was the same world the very warrior's that could rival themselves in power grew up and got stronger throughout their lifes.
This being, the Juubi was created for the soul purpose of protecting humanity and keeping peace of earth, but soon the dark-side of humanity turned it's ugly head...
A group of greedy and power hungry human's appeared mysteriously and tried to control the entity with an art called, Fuinjutsu only to have it backfire on them and enrage the Juubi. That day human's angered the once protector of the earth and soon found out they weren't so powerful without the juubi's help anymore.
So a man who had been named as the Rikudo Sennin, appeared before the enraged entity, and tried to calm the beast and negotiate of why its angry, but Juubi was too far gone to speak to the human, its anger had slowly been rising over the year's of seeing human's and their greed for power, and when those foolish mortal's as it called them tried to control him...
That drew the line fro it and killed them and all human's in its way to cleanse the earth as it said...
Seeing the beast to enraged o answer, the Rikudo did a sealing only he knew and was said to have been blessed by the Juubi's very own creator's to calm the beast...
How he did this? He used the power of the his 'eyes' and body' and sealed the entity within his own body, making him the first of many Jinchurriki to come before him.
Year's later the Rikudo was on his death bed and was already at death's door, so with the last of the incredible man's spirit, he gave his two son's a gift for the future.
The youngest he gave his, physical power and 'body' and to the eldest he was given his eyes and spiritual power. After this the Rikudo had named the youngest as his successor, which in turn made the eldest who believed in power could keep the peace of the world turn his back on the youngest and tried to attack him. Which in turn led to the two son's rivalry go through out the ages as with their families passing on the rivalry and legacy of the Rikudo.
As the man laid on his death bed wit the last of his strength, he split the juubi's power into nine part's and sealed each one into a spiritually aware animal of his choosing. One was a sand colored Tanuki, which in turn became the Ichibi no Shukaku, a purple cat which soon became the Nibi Nekomata, Thirdly was the choosing of a beached sea turtle, which became the Sanbi no Yatsuri, Next was a monkey of legend which in turned became the Yonbi, Fifth was a fusion of a horse and a dolphin of the ocean, which the two joined as one becoming the Gobi the five-tailed whale-horse.
Sixth was the animal of healing as the local's put it, A Slug that birthed medically used slug's became the Rokubi-Six tailed Castropod, seventh was another fusion of a rhino and a forest beetle, which soon became the Shichibi- Seven tailed Rhino Beetle. Eighth was a fusion of a squid and a Ox which turned into the Hachibi-Eight tailed Ox-Cephalopod.
Finally the last one was his secret daughter, she chose that day to take the last and most strongest of all of the Juubi's power and after much heated debate fused her with a orange fox turning her into the now mythical legend, Kyuubi no Kitsune...
After the separation of the god-like entity and seeing his only child now a Bijuu as he named them, finally died, not knowing of the future he brought upon the world...
Centuries later-Konohagakure
Today just wasn't Minato' Namikaze's day, first off the civilian council was still causing a scene of having more trade relation's with other village's to increase their own shop's and stores to fill their own pocket's while the shinobi council was advising him to make advancement's on opposing village's borders, but he always saw the reluctance of Koharu and Homura so they weren't all there with Danzo Shimura when it came to military relations. Lastly the evil's of being the Hokage of a shinobi village...The evil's no hokage or any kage in history has ever been able to face and defeat...
The Accursed paperwork...
But he was joyfully happy also, his wife Kushina was gonna give birth to twin's and from what his friend tsunade said, one was a boy and the other a girl, he couldn't wait to be a father...
But something happened, a masked man had come and attacked during Kushina's labor and threatened to kill his two children if he didn't step away from the woman. Doing so started to whole situation he was in now...
In front of him was a chained Nine-tailed fox growling at him in a bloody rage in its eyes. With his wife Kushina on the ground beside him holding his two children in her arm's as they both stared into the crazed eyes of the kyuubi that was once a loving being to the Kushina.
''Damn you Madara...Damn you to hell!'' Kushina yelled as she was told of what the man did and only knew of one person to control the Kyuubi in such a way. Minato looked very desperate and broken, he had tried everything to quell Kyuubi, but nothing had worked that is until he remembered a particular sealing...
Looking at his children he looked at his daughter, the sleeping babe had the same hair as Kushina only with a few steak's of blonde, but blue eyes like his own. Looking at his son, he felt a rush of fatherly pride, the boy had spiky yellow hair like his own, but strangely it seemed to glow at times. His eyes...he remembered them even now, they were his mother's eyes, but at the same time flashed a sea-green before disappearing...
He remembered the birth of the two and had gave his son the name Naruto which he meant as Maelstrom, and Kushina named their daughter Natsume. His son was born before her a minute late so naruto was the older brother of natsume, he smiled seeing his family and children, but his face turned stoney remembering what he had to do.
With that he got the sobbing Kushina's attention and told him of his plan...
Only they nor Kyuubi never knew of another entity watching the scene with interest.
Realm of Shenron
Watching the scene, a giant green dragon with two glowing red eye's watched on with what could be seen as a smile, he had watched on as the earth continued on without the dragon ball's how it grew and fell, when the apocalypse fell upon the world. Everything and seen how to new 'God's as they call themselves these day's created juubi, a being he would say had the power to rival a super saiyan at best...
He snorted in amusement, that thing did its job protecting the earth for a while until those human's tried to control it, something the dragon found amusing since seeing the juubi crush them like ants and seeing them scream and run in fear was to him an amusing show. That's when he narrowed his eyes,seeing the scene before him and had to think of an idea of what to do, because it was quite obvious the male was gonna use something to deal with the kyuubi. But when he looked at the boy the man was staring at, his eyes widened at epic proportion's before he started to chuckle before outright laughing!
''Hahaha! Who would of thought their blood was still alive on earth! And in such a condensed matter, if a slight tap into the boy's blood, I can awaken it...''he mused thinking of what he could do. That's when he thought of something even though he would bring out his presence once more into the world and give out his location to the other celestial being's it wouldn't matter for if his plan worked their would be a new and stronger Guardian for the earth then all the previous combined...
Searching within himself he felt it...The presence was still there, but he could feel the saiyan's presence and smirked...
''I think its time...for a rebirth...of a Saiyan and a Guardian...''he said before his form started to glow gold before disappearing in a flash of light.
Back with Minato
''I-I see...your gonna see the Kyuubi into Naruto...but what about Konoha they will see him as a monster you should know this!'' Kushina said,trying to change Minato's idea, but it was unfortunately impossible the man wouldn't budge.
''I...know this, but I can at least try...besides he will have you and Natsume in his life...''he said trying to reassure her, but even in the deepest reaches of his heart he knew the life Naruto would lead if he did this and it was heart wrenching to know he would be the one to place the burden on his newly born son.
The crying red head just hung her head low unable to say anything else, her newly born son...was gonna become the next Jinchurriki of the Kyuubi...she knew the horror's of being one and it pained her to know she couldn't stop it in her horrible state.
About to reach for Naruto, Minato felt a presence overbearing everything he ever felt before even kyuubi's blood lust and killing intent was dwarfed by this feeling of power...Looking around he saw everything stopped like time slowed down to a crawl, looking back at Kushina he saw her froze as well, but somehow his son was still sleeping like normal. That's when he heard lightning and snapping his head up he saw something that would make the toughest of Hokage's scream like little girl's...
Above him in the black sky was a green giant dragon, with red glowing eyes the things jaw was wide in a grin showing its giant razor sharp teeth. In short the thing made the Kyuubi look like a newborn kit...
Minato broke out in a cold sweat when the dragon's head started to come closer to him and his family before finally stopping a foot away from him.
Shenron found it quite amusing to see the blonde man nervous, but couldn't blame him seeing something of his stature was sure to scare even the toughest of any being. The god's themselves knew not to anger him unless they face the wrath of a dragon...
Looking at Minato he turned his gaze toward Kushina before resting his eyes upon the blonde babe, 'Naruto' he heard his name was. Closing in he looked down at the sleeping babe and before Minato's shocked eyes a golden orb of light softly floated out of the dragon and into Naruto, and before he could do anything there was a flash of light erupting from naruto's form before it became clear again.
Opening his eyes Minato saw where his blonde son slept was a spiky black haired baby with larger then normal arm's for a babe. He saw the black haired boy's eyes open slightly to see him and the dragon, right then Minato saw the change in his son the once purple eyes of his mother was now a coal black not like he uchiha, but a warmer black that just screamed innocence!
Looking back at the dragon, ''What did you just do to my son?'' getting a chuckle from the dragon making the area shake and him stumble a bit. ''Mortal...I have just did a little something that will save this world, and bring about a new Guardian for the entire earth...Your son...Naruto as you call him is in reality the reincarnation of a being far stronger then any human or bijuu, hell this being was able to tear the world asunder if he wanted to, but he protected like and cherished it throughout his whole time. And now your son, will be reborn as this man...for this world needs a Saiyan once more to protect it from the future dangers that are to come...'' Shenron explained, getting a shocked look from Minato, looking back at his son who was curiously looking around as a brown monkey tail twitched a few times from behind him making Minato gape!
Looking back he saw the dragon chuckling, ''I know whats with the tail right? Well lets just say this being wasn't exactly human, but had the heart of one...Now about your little kyuubi problem I can't have you sealing it into this child, so I suggest you seal it into your daughter...don't worry nothing will happen to her...that I can promise you...'' he explained.
Minato just stood there for a few minutes to re asses the situation before he lowered his head, in defeat no matter how much he thought nothing else would work and he most definitely wouldn't disagree with a dragon this size...
So with a heavy heart he began to do the seal's for the Shikki Fujin, as Shenron started to glow a golden light.
Finishing the hand seal's he asked one last thing, ''I'm sorry...Naruto...Natsume...Kushina...'' before slamming his hands on the ground and shouted...
''Shikki Fuin!''
With the sealing announced Shenron's body rose before shooting into Naruto once more, good thing to because then a figure floated from behind Minato with a twisted grin on its face...
It was the shinigami, entity of death and apprentice of King Yama...
Looking around the shinigami's face turned into a frown before it settled upon the chained down Bijuu and broken family before it. Though when its eyes landed upon Naruto's tailed form its eyes widened a bit before its grin got even wider. Though it looked down to see the one who summoned him talking with the woman...
''Minato...what happened to our son? He's...He's...changed!''she yelled frantically worrying over what happened to Naruto. Minato just chuckled a bit even in such a situation Kushina was always oblivious to what was going on.
''Lets just say...Naruto is gonna be someone very important to the world and changes appeared since...well...Naruto is basically the reincarnation of someone very important and lets leave it at that...hehehe'' but kushina wasn't amused if the glare at him was anything.
''Minato I swear if what your saying is some kind of joke, I will do shinigami's job for it and kill you...''she said darkly making him sweat a bit before they both turned to see something very adorable in both their eyes.
Natsume was giggling while petting the monkey tail that twitched, it slowly somehow reacting to her touch touch her baby face and caressed her face making her burst into giggles once more. Smiling they were interrupted by the situation at hand looking up they saw the Shinigami with an annoyed look on its face.
''I f you are done mortal, I'd like to get this done with, I have other things to do, you know torture other souls and what not...''the entity of death gaining sweatdrops from both...
With that Minato gently took hold of Natsume while Kushina held Naruto. Seeing what Minato was about to do Kushina just felt so bad about not knowing how to to do this another way, and now one of her children had to pay the price for it, she felt awful and disgusted with herself at that moment. But looking down she saw naruto's black eyes staring at her own purple ones with curiosity before he reached up placed both hands on her cheeks and smiled.
This seemed to lighten her mood a bit even if he changed...a lot he was still naruto, so grasping his little hands she held them gently as she kissed his forehead.
Holding him tightly she made a silent vow to always protect her children from any and all enemies that would try to hurt them...
Hearing the sound of a body hitting the floor she slowly looked up to see the Kyuubi gone, the Shinigami's spirit gone as well, with Minato's dead body on the ground with his arms wrapped around natsume's crying form, quickly getting up she got to Natsume and slowly placed the crying babe in her other arm. Before she looked down at Minato's body and smiled sadly, ''Don't worry Minato they will be safe I promise...'' she said, not knowing of the painful future that's gonna come for them...
It's been 3 day's since the attack of kyuubi and the village of Konohagakure, and the civilian and shinobi alike were all mourning for their loss against the Kyuubi, but most were mourning for their late Hokage the Yondaime who sacrificed his life to defeat the demon as they were all told. Only the higher up in the shinobi rank truly knew what happen and yet even they were told much of anything.
In the night at the Sarutobi clan house, Hiruzen Sarutobi was rubbing his temples in frustration, the council was now on his back trying to have the mysterious Jinchurriki killed since h did announce to the council of what happened, but not exactly 'who' was the jinrikisha. Now though he was getting pissed real fast of how the whole council was acting. That's when he remembered Kushina and the two children, he smiled softly at the thought of them, the two little babe's were almost inseparable hell they slept in the same crib cause if they were separated Naruto and natsume both would cry until they were put back together with each other.
Hell naruto's wail was strong enough to crack a damn window and it seemed to always get louder with each passing hour...
Though that didn't stop his iron will of protecting the three from the council and told Kushina they were welcome to live within his clan home since the Namikaze compound was all, but destroyed during the attack...
Remembering the two smiling faces of the two babes made his eyes grow a cold fury and rose up and snapped his fingers, out popped two masked anbu awaiting their leaders orders.
''Rat, Boar gather up the council it is time they learned who ruled Konoha and those that need to learn their place...''he said in a murderous tone, that made the two anbu inwardly flinch, but smile in satisfaction since the true Sandaime was coming back.
With a quick hai, the two disappeared in a shushin. With that Sarutobi turned around and headed to the Namikaze's room to check up on them, while walking he mildly remembered something about naruto that made him curious there was a monkey tail attacked to his back-side and his hair was as black as night, but still spiked, but not like his father's, more like spiked in all directions.
He found it amusing of how Naruto looked similar to that of a new born monkey he'd seen in his summons realm Enma...
Getting to the door he knocked a few times getting a, ''enter'', walking in he saw something very adorable in the old wise Hokage's eyes. In front of him was Kushina holding natsume as she played with the taller, but still small babe naruto. The little red head was playing with Naruto's tail like it was her favorite past time in the whole world.
Naruto himself look constipated about something, but soon started to cry a bit when Natsume gripped his tail tighter, seeing the imminent danger of one of naruto's dangerous shouts of hell, he flashed to the little babes and grabbed natsume's hand softly and pulled it away from the now ticking time bomb that was Naruto.
''Kushina, I'm about to head for another council meeting, after this we will explain on how you want to train these two, for I know how much you want them to get stronger to protect themselves so after this we will discuss on how you want to train them, alright?'' he said getting a happy nod from the woman.
''Thank you Oji-san, and these two would probably say the same thing, but I think their a little busy'' she said with a giggle at the end. He smiled at the family of three and headed out his way to go show the council who truly control's Konoha...
And got them under control he did, after killing a civilian and beating Danzo literally into the ground, he reminded those of the council who truly ruled Konoha with an iron fist. After this with the help of his two other teammates Koharu and Homura, he explained to the clan heads of what truly happened and to say some were shocked was like saying Jiraiya had a healthy relationship with women...
Biggest understatement of the year and Kushina's best friends tsume and Mikoto generally asked an audience with her and the two children which he accepted, but no others since even for a hokage didn't t rust those of the Konoha clans that much.
After that day he with the help of Kushina helped train the two little children to be shinobi so they could defend themselves.
And the two children took to training like a fish in water, especially Naruto for some reason he trained much more then any child his age should. He always trained day in and day out not stopping till he drops, no one was able to understand, but naruto just said it was something calling him to never stop training always go forth and never stop.
And he didn't he studied in various art's of the shinobi, but honestly never found much interesting except Ninjutsu, Fuinjutsu, but the one he took to most was surprisingly Taijutsu, he had found the art exhilarating to him since you could fight close up with your opponent and not from long or mid-range. So he studied various art's, but none had proofed to be of use to him, they all felt to rigid or to flexible. So he just went with his instincts and fought without one.
His grandfather figure none to him as 'Oji-san or jiji' as he and his sister Natsume likes to call him, had one time introduced them both to any kind of weapon they would use and to natsume she chose to wield a katana like her mother, but Naruto strangely felt that using sharp weapon's just wouldn't cut it with him. That's when he at one time grasped a Bo-staff and at that moment just knew he had to learn how to use one.
Good thing Hiruzen was a master Bojutsu user and at that day started teaching Naruto the way's of the Bojutsu while Kushina taught her daughter the ways of using a katana...
Speaking of Natsume, for a five year old the girl she was quite the hothead just like hr mother anything that pissed her off would make any male in the vicinity flinch holding their groins at a phantom pain. They still remembered that one man that tried to grope Kushina...
That same man ended up having a good beating from both Natsume and Naruto, but natsume finished it off by throwing a kunai right in the center of the man's groin destroying any way of him having children, but if there was one thing natsume loved most was her big brother despite him only being a minute older then her, he stood by her when she needed it. She was very protective of him, but those that tried to hurt her would end up having a beating of their lives from the nicknamed 'Saru-gaki' of Konoha because of his monkey tail swinging around his backside.
She had grew up by his side for their short 5 year's and always knew something about him was different then her or her mother, or their father for that matter, but she never dwelled on it much and just lived happily by her most loved person besides her Kaa-san.
She too had trained no where near as much as Naruto, but a good amount for one such as her age, and was already at the beginning stages of Chakra control exercises and in the step's of nin-ken-Gen-Fuinjutsu. Kushina tried teaching Naruto chakra control exercises, but for some reason he just had to much energy to try and control it.
Basically she was on an early start of becoming a shinobi while her nii-san was training to become something...
different...
They both physically grew up like the 5 year old's they were, but somehow Naruto's body was starting to turn more buff with each passing month of what he called 'warm up exercises' which included him pulling a full grown Hi-no kuni tree around Konoha in 5 lap's before climbing the Hokage monument with his arm's tied together with two giant boulders weighing him down. They checked out why he was able to do such thing's, but all they found was that naruto had the strength and durability no human should have, while his stamina was off the chart's going past even Natsume's own.
His muscles weren't too buff for a child his age, but they were quite see able and at times when natsume doesn't think people were watching she would watch how Naruto trained she didn't know why, but just watching him made her feel weird she never told anyone though and kept it to herself...
Over the last 5 year's as they grew up they had met their kaa-chan's best friends which were that of the Inuzuka matriarch Tsume Inuzuka and The Uchiha clan's heads wife Mikoto Uchiha. When the two women met the two little tykes they all, but glomped the poor children, or in naruto's case tortured when they found out about his tail...
Ever since then hes been named their pet with the nickname Monkey-kun, Kushina and Natsume never let him live it down either, always bugging him about it...
Right now we find a spiky black haired boy who wore black shinobi sandal's with black cargo pants. He had around his waist a white sash with a black shirt over his chest. Strapped to his back was a red pole that from normal standards was just that a normal red pole, but to those that knew what it truly did, they would know it was a Bo-staff with a seal making it able to expand and and lengthen.
The boy's face still had a little baby fat, but was starting to lose it due to the training he was going through. The boy's eyes were that of the blackest night with black eyebrows as well. He had a small tired smile on his face since he was out panting in the forest of Konohagakure, around him were crater's and broken tree's from his latest training exercise.
Wiping the sweat from his brow he inhaled before exhaling, standing up he heard something from within the woods thanks to his sensitive hearing and look behind him and saw in the woods a mob of what looked like armed civilian's with masked men mixed in with the kanji for (NE) on their blank masks. Narrowing his eyes he took a step back and spoke, ''Whats up guys? Need something?'' already knowing the answer...
''Shut up demon! Today you die no one is here to help you or safe you this time, so get ready to die!'' said a civilian. While the others cheered and the ROOT ninja stood by watching for any shinobi to come by the area.
''I see, and I suppose you think I won't fight back then?''he said getting a arrogant smirk from dumbass #1. ''of course the demon has to learn from its betters who's in charge around here so stay down and let your masters whip you like the obident dog you are!'' getting a roar of approval from the crowd.
Naruto's eyes turned dark and dangerous, eyes that shouldn't be on a 5 year old boy like him and spoke while getting into stance, ''Like hell I will, now come get me you pathetic bastards!'' he said getting angry yells from the civilian's and with that they charged in intent to kill the 'demon'.
Too bad they never stood a chance against a trained child in the arts of a shinobi, quickly pulling out his Bo-staff he started dancing around the civilian's knocking them out with a hit by the back of their heads or punches to the stomach. With his incredible strength his punches at full blast could punch a hole through the toughest of metal even steel. So to a civilian and him lowering the punches to a minimum they felt like they got tackled by a bull.
Few minutes later Naruto found himself surrounded by groaning or unconscious civilian's, but then a second later he found the ROOT anbu surrounding him on all sides. Letting out a irritated sigh, he scratched his head in frustration, there was just no way he could fight these guys he knew of the anbu, but these guys were from what jiji said mindless drones that wouldn't stop till their objectives are accomplished and him still a genin leveled shinobi he wasn't no where near the level to fight them.
Feeling a little desperate he jumped off into the woods with the ROOT following, a few minutes later natsume came running into the area with a happy expression on her face to see her nii-san only to see groaning and beat up civilian's, she was getting worried until she found something that made her heart stop...
Naruto's Bo-staff was laying on the ground near his belongings the only thing that was missing the picture they took together with kaa-san...
She started to tear up fearing the worst and grabbed his staff and pack, ''I gotta find kaa-san and jiji, Nii-san may be in danger!'' she said jumping off into the woods.
''Hurry kit I sense something wrong here...hurry!'' Kyuubi told her container, over the last few year's the two had finally met after one stressful training day and immediately bonded seeing as the 'big bad kyuubi' wasn't as evil as people spoke of.
Only Kushina and Naruto knew of Kyuubi speaking with Natsume and didn't really care all that much natsume was still family to them hell naruto was excited and asked if kyuubi could see them or other random questions which made the three females giggle at how cute he was when he was like that.
Shaking her head in agreement the little girl sped off trying to find her kaa-san as fast as she could...
Too bad she wouldn't get them in time...
With naruto, the black haired boy had a few cuts all over his body and had a few kunai and shuriken lodged in his small frame. Following him were 4 ROOT anbu on his tail, he thought about where he was going, but didn't care as long as h could get away from these guys before they could kill him. Looking ahead he saw the forests ending so with a mighty jump he shot off ahead of the anbu and out of the forest...
Only to come upon a cliff separating him from going any further looking around he remembered the place being called 'The Valley of The End' something hr read in a textbook once. Ironic he would come here in his situation. Hearing a thunderous sound he looked up to see storm clouds rolling in, hearing multiple thuds he looked over his shoulder to see the four Root anbu behind him with there ninja-to drawn.
''You have no where to go now demon, just surrender and Danzo-sama, can finally have his weapon...'' said drone #1 in a emotionless tone. Naruto quirked an eyebrow,
'Danzo?'
He shook his head and looked at the situation he was in, looking at the ROOT before slowly looking down of the cliff he saw the raging river from the brewing up storm. Nervously sweating he had two choices to go with, even for a 5 year old he could tell when hes near a life or death situation and now he needed to find a way to escape.
Looking over the cliff once more and the slowly advancing ROOT, Naruto closed his eyes slowly channeling his breathing to calm himself, putting his hand into his pocket he pulled out a picture he cherished more then anyone would know.
It was a picture of the two most important people kn his life, Kushina and Natsume, with him holding Natsume on his shoulder's and Kushina kneeling beside them with a smile on her face with her cheek on his own. He saw Natsume's victory sign of what she said that day, 'On top of the world!' with a peace sign. Smiling sadly, he remembered his problem and placed the picture back into his pocket.
'Sorry...Kaa-chan...Natsume-chan...looks like I won't be able to see you two again...'
With tears falling from his eyes he steeled his 5 year old resolve and turned toward the cliff ignoring the shout of the anbu for him to stop he ran as fast as he could and with a strike of lightning he jumped off the cliff and fell into the raging river below.
The ROOT all rushed at the cliff only to curse seeing their objective commit 'suicide'. Motioning the 4 shushined back to Konoha to relay their failure on the capture of Naruto.
With Naruto, the monkey tailed boy was trying to swim up from the river to get air, but he just kept getting pulled back down by the currents and without seeing it, his head hit a rock making his eyes go blurry and him succumbing to unconsciousness.
Sarutobi Clan House
As hiruzen was finishing up on his last batch of paperwork on political issues with Kumo and Kushina was planning for her children's next training plan, they heard a loud 'BANG' and rushed off to see what the commotion was. Imagine their surprise to see a panting natsume with Naruto's pack and Bo-staff. Seeing the staff Hirzuen and kushina got worried and even worse when they saw the red headed child crying.
Rushing to her child Kushina tried to calm her down, only to freeze from a few jumbled words natsume kept mumbling as she cried into her kaa-sans chest. She heard a few things ranging from 'stupid baka villagers' and 'Hurting nii-san', but the most fearful one was 'I can't find him...I can't find naru-nii-san!'. Getting a gasp from both Hiruzen and Kushina, the old man suddenly leaped out the window and yelled,
''ANBU!, I WANT 5 SEARCH TEAMS TO LOOK FOR NARUTO UZUMAKI NAMIKAZE! LOOK ALL OVER HI NO KUNI BORDERS! I WANT HIM FOUND HURRY!'' he said getting nod's from them all, since hiruzen saw naruto as a grandson as natsume was seen as a granddaughter. So to hear one of his surrogate family member was missing had him angry and infuriated with those that tried to attack him one more.
Kushina though was trembling as he shaky hands were over her face while her eyes were wide in horror. Her only son, the one that at times reminded her of Minato o much, and was what brought joy to her and natsume. Was missing?...
First Minato...
Now Naruto?...
She grabbed Natsume and pulled her into a hug trying to hold back her tear's, she felt Natsume stiffen before wailing into her shoulder. She felt horrible now, all she had focused on was their training and now not watching out for her children one of them disappeared off kami knows where? She finally let the tears fall and joined Natsume as they cried for their lost family...
it made it all the worse for natsume since being almost an born at the same time as naruto she had a sort of link to him whether it was spiritual or physical she knew of when he was in trouble. And right then as she cried in her kaa-san's arm's she felt a disturbance within her when her heart ached for her nii-san, that's when she finally got to the worst conclusion her little 5 year old mind could comprehend...
''I f-felt it...n-n-nii-san...is gone...hes...gone...HES GONE!'' she yelled, shocking the sobbing Kushina even more before she finally broke down with her musume. They stayed their in each others arms crying for their supposed 'dead' sochi/nii-san...
Naruto's Mindscape
Groaning, Naruto was rubbing his head in phantom pain while trying to open his eyes. When he did so all he saw as a blue sky and the glowing sun. Leaning up a bit he looked around himself to see grassy field's and mountains as far as the eye and of the shinobi eye could see. He looked around and saw a 3 story house from what looked liked it and another small cabin beside it.
Somehow he felt like he knew this place, but didn't know from where...
''Hiya!'' making the namikaze jump back in surprise and turned around quickly only to see something quite shocking...
In front of him was two figures the first one got his attention immediately, it was a giant dragon...on epic proportions, its body was in the sky itself appearing in and out of the sky, the whole length of the body was full of green scales and spikes running down its back. Looking at its face he saw two giant glowing red eyes staring into his own with what seemed curiosity.
After staring at the dragon before him in shock he turned his gaze at the second person standing beside the dragon. And strangely the person was a boy...with what looked like his age. The boy's hair was just like his own except a bit spikier in other direction's while his skin was a dark tan, showing the boy was outside quite a lot. He also noticed the muscles on the kid, realizing the kid trained extremely. That's when shockingly enough he saw the monkey tail twitching behind the kid. Seeing the boy wearing a light blue vest time shirt and white belt with sand yellow pants and Japanese type shoes, Naruto was seeing he striking similarities he had with this guy.
Shenron sensing Naruto's confusion, ''Boy, we have something to talk about...'', getting a strained nod from the 5 year old Naruto and a snicker from the small tanned boy.
With that Shenron introduced himself as the dragon of the dragon balls and Watcher of the Universe, telling Naruto the true story of how old the earth truly was, explaining of the humans that lived years and years before the shinobi era started.
Explaining, he also told him of what the dragon balls were and of what they were created for and their true purpose and despite being only 5 years old, he completely agreed with the celestial being. Humans were sinful being's, but had to say they had the bright side as well to enjoy their lifes to the fullest.
''Its true human's are beings capable of both evil and good, but without the other there would be no balance, just like yin and yang. So I say taking the dragon balls away from them was the first step to the true evolutionary chain for them.''he getting a small smile from the boy beside the dragon and a grin from Shenron.
''Your very intelligent for someone your age., and yes I agree with you, that is why there needs to be a protector to keep this balance from going out of control. Now this is something else I have called you here for, first off your probably wondering where we are and its simple...this is your mindscape basically your inner world, and this person beside me is basically...''
Though the dragon never got to finish when the dark-skinned boy jumped from where he was and flashed infront of naruto shocking him with his speed and held out his hand, ''Hiya! My names Son Goku and its finally nice to meet you, Naruto Uzumaki!'' he finished with a big grin and hand held out. Blinking a few times he smirked before grasping the boys hand with his own, ''Nice to meet you Goku, now shenron-sama care to explain whats going on?'' he said only to get a bonk on the head from Goku making naruto blink rubbing his head before looking at the grinning boy.
''Nah, I'll start explaining this time since if he did it take hours or even days since the old dragon would just explain every little detail.'' earning a growl from said dragon, '' Now naruto, I'll cut to the chase, you know my name, but I may look like a child to you, but in reality I'm older then the new 'gods' they call themselves and was at one point an adult, but someone did a bad wish and transformed into me into my kid form again hehehe!'' he said scratching the back of his sheepishly, but Naruto just stood their gaping.
To think infront of him a kid his age...was in reality an older being then kami and the other gods? He tried his best to not faint and just dumbly nodded, seeing he still had his attention Goku continued, ''Now you are mostly wondering why we look so alike, well to to say it bluntly your my reincarnation ever since mister big and green here saw the saiyan blood that had condensed over the year's finally erupt in you transforming you into a full Saiyan like myself.'' he said getting a confused look from naruto.
Seeing this Goku sighed and placed his hand on naruto's forehead, ''I don't feel like explaining to you about saiyan's so I'll transplant into your mind the knowledge of what they were.''and before Naruto could retort a glowing aura came from Goku and flowed into naruto making his own form glow the same. That's when a sudden rush of information rammed into his mind, everything about the saiyan's was practically programmed in his mind, everything even about the Truffles and the war between them and the Saiyan's, The legend of the Super Saiyan, and finally how the race was all, but killed by a alien called frieza...
he grit his teeth in anger as he saw people like him murdered, but smiled softly since they died fighting at least...
That's when he closed his eyes in thought,
'Now I know where I got my love of fighting and competition from...'
''I see you understand what the saiyan's were, they were once a powerful race, the strongest in the universe, but they were all killed including my own blood father bardock by that madman frieza, good thing Trunks finished him off...'' which made Naruto calm down a bit. Looking up at the boy infront of him, he reminisced of what he heard and had to smile, ''I always knew I was different I just didn't know how much, but now that I know the truth...its finally good to meet a fellow saiyan...'' which in turn gt grin from Goku.
''Yeah, but we have things to discuss you see Naruto since we are to be reunited we have to become one, but in order to do this you must reach the requirements both mentally and physically and since you at such a young age we still have a few years for that to happen.'' which confused naruto.
''Then what do we do then? I don't think I should just wait around doing nothing...'' which got a nod from Goku, ''that's right and since your out of Konoha we can take this opportunity to fix this little problem and that is by a old teaching method one of my mentors taught me...'' he said with a fond smile.
Raising an eyebrow, ''Oh and what would that be?'' which made Goku turn happy all of a sudden.
''It will be you traveling all across the elemental countries honing your skill's as I and shenron here teach you on what your abilities are and how different they are from what humans nowadays call chakra. During this I will be teaching you of what I learned at your age, that includes every style I've learned and the ways to control your energy. First off will be what master Roshi taught me and that is called The Turtle Hermit:Way of training and Martial Art's.'' Naruto's ears perked up at the word martial arts and not known Goku saw his reaction and smiled.
''Martial arts is a way of fighting in close combat are as the shinobi call it taijutsu, but Martial art's is more of a basic way of fighting then what the shinobi do. Now first off before we do this, Shenron here is gonna have to fully awaken your saiyan blood since only half of it has been awoken, and let me tell ya its gonna hurt...a lot!'' he said.
''I don't care as long as I can get stronger to fight stronger opponent's and protect those important to me, I'll go through anything done to me!'' Naruto said with hi eyes filled with the same determination Goku had when he as a child. Smiling at his long time descendant he pat his shoulder, ''Good, because I have a feeling trouble is gonna blow its way toward you and you have to be ready for it. Now shenron...do it...''he said while Naruto nodded with him showing he was ready.
Seeing this Shenron's eyes glowed red and before naruto knew it he was on the ground as blue lightning covered his body as a blue aura came off him in waves, seeing this Goku was a bit surprised, 'He's got more Ki (Fighting power or Latent energy)then I did at his age, and even then I didn't find out about it till later on, but it would seem he was already unintentionally trying to control his power for a while now...incredible...'
But Goku's face then started to sport a large grin, 'He'll be the perfect apprentice!'
Though Goku was cut short of his musing's when he saw Naruto's form started to glow a gold color before he and shenron had to close their eyes from the sudden light erupting within the mindscape...
But that didn't stop the sudden skyrocket of naruto's power rising in the elemental countries alerting many, even the ground itself was trembling...
In Konoha the two crying Uzumaki's suddenly along with the tired yet furious sandaime felt the strange yet foreign energy along with the tremble that shook the very foundation's of Konoha itself. But Kushina and natsume felt the power and knew immediately that is felt closely related to Naruto, but it was much stronger...yet...
Far more primal...
''Naru-nii-kun...I sense him...Kaa-chan..I sense him...hes out there somewhere...Naru-nii-kun is out there!'' natsume said happily, while Kushina was sporting a full blown mega watt grin on her face, her son was alive...and was out there somewhere...
But the energy she felt...it was definitely that of what naruto's felt like, but it was much more potent and...more of a primal it honestly sent chills down her spine for some reason...
But she wondered when she would see naruto again as did the cheerful Natsume.
With Goku and Shenron the two stood in shock at what they were seeing, before them was a changed Naruto, they honestly didn't know how much naruto would change when he had his other half of his saiyan blood awakened, but now seeing the result's they couldn't, but agree it was a good thing.
For infront of them stood Naruto, who stood from his normal height of 3'6 to a 4'0. his hair was just like Goku's in every way except for it being much more spiky. His face was the same, but his eyes held a primal urge to fight a good fight and find strong opponents, his muscles were now much more seen since his sudden growth spurt changed his body slightly, his latest attire from the shinobi all black he wore was all, but in teared rags from the sudden transformation. Waving behind Naruto was his monkey tail.
But goku was more focused on Naruto's energy signature, it was off the chart's! Even in his age he was no where near this kind of level, yet the feeling naruto's aura gave off was a very primal feeling only Saiyan's would have, he knew what he was feeling he too had the same thing as did Vegeta, but Vegeta had the feeling in spades since it was the Saiyan pride and thirst for battle. He would need to change that in naruto he didn't wanna deal with a second Vegeta...Oh the chaos that would happen if it did...
Looking into his new apprentice's eyes he smiled patting him on the shoulder, ''Well I guess we have a lot of work to do huh?'' he said, getting a small grin from naruto.
''That we do Master Goku...that we do...'' but that's when naruto's eyes widened comically making Goku try to hide his laughter.
''Oh shit oh shit oh shit oh shit!, Kushina-chan and natsume-chan are gonna kill me when I don't come back!'' he said in a fearful tone, which Goku's eyes suddenly sympathized with him, he still feels the phantom pains of Chichi's frying pan attack's...ouch...
''I feel your pain, but lets worry about that later, we can send a telepathical link to them of what your doing. Then we must really get started on your training.'' nodding in acceptance he followed Goku's instructions and placed his hand on Goku's head, while the old saiyan reached out with his senses he suddenly found the two still in the Sarutobi clan home, alerting naruto of this the newly reborn saiyan began to speak within mentally...
'Hello...is this thing on?...Hellooo?'
Kushina and natsume's ears perked up at the sound they were hearing and looked around only to see no one.
'Kushina-kaa-chan...natsume-chan can you both hear me?'
Knowing the voice the two red heads both suddenly screamed...
''Ahhh! Ghostly Naruto-nii/sochi-kun voice!'' they both shouted trying to not hear the voice.
Naruto and Goku both sweat dropped and chuckled, before naruto spoke once more...
'Uh...Kushina-kaa-chan? Natsume-chan, its me...Naruto'
There eyes widened even further and looked up only to see no one getting frustrated they both yelled, ''If you really are naruto-nii/sochi-kun there where the hell are you?'' they both yelled in unison. Making Naruto suddenly gulp nervously and Goku giving a silent prayer to his descendent for a good future...
'Well, I'm not totally sure myself, but I wanna tell you two something...this latest attack on my person has opened my eyes, not only am I not safe in Konoha at the moment I'm also risking both of your safety with the shinobi and civilian alike trying to kill me. Now I know what your thinking natsume-chan and stop right now, I know they think I'm the container and I'm fine with that let them think what they want to...They'll just regret it later on...Besides I don't like to see you cry or you either kushina-kaa-chan...'
Too bad naruto didn't see the blushes upon both the females faces as he said his words, but goku did and since hes lived for so long he finally understands a little bit more of the females and had to grin, naruto had a way with words with women.
Kushina and natsume just sat there re-listening to what naruto just said and kept playing it over and over in their minds as heat rushed to both of their faces...
'Why does sochi-kuns voice sound...deeper...and the way he said those tings...and when did I starting calling him sochi-kun? What happened to just plain sochi?' mentally questioning a flustered Kushina as her hands were on her face trying to hide her growing blush. 'he's mine son for kami's sake I shouldn't be thinking about such things about the one you brought into this world...'
Natsume was more...open? Her Onii-san was acting much differently then before...but the way he spoke made that strange feeling in her grow much more and suddenly found a strange heat coming upon her face, that's when she heard kyuubi speak.
'Damn...naru-kun sure knows how to speak with a lady, hes got you and Kushina-chan blushing hell even myself...'Kyuubi muttered the last part to herself only.
'Kyuu-chan? When did you start calling nii-san 'naru-kun?' mentally asked the redhead with cute confused expression on her face, but Kyuubi just blushed trying to hide her embarrassment.
'Uh...uh...uh...I'll tell you later!' kyuubi said quickly before cutting off mental connection leaving behind a confused Natsume.
That's when they both realized his final words, and their eyes grew as wide as dinner plates...
''Sochi-kun...don't tell me your...'' fearing the worst, Naruto not coming back to protect Natsume and herself from konoha's villagers.
Hearing this Naruto sighed, but spoke 'Honestly? Yes that was my first option of not returning, but I've been persuaded to do something different...I'm gonna travel the elemental countries and try to hone my skill's and get stronger. That way when I come back I'll be able to protect not only myself, but my family as well...until then we won't hear from each other for a long time...'
Hearing this the two (three counting Kyuubi) felt their hearts wrench and asking the question on their minds Kushina asked, ''H-how long...will you be gone?'' dreading the answer...
There was a long pause making them feel uneasy...
'Ahem well...it would be around the time Natsume-chan graduates from the Academy to when our generation of chunin exam's begin, I'm not totally sure, but don't worry I'll be fine I just want you two to be safe and natsume-chan to train as well to get stronger before we meet again, and you kushina-kaa-chan, I want you to start training once more, I'd like to fight the woman that made Iwa itself fearful of your very presence.' he said nervously getting shocked looks from the two while kyuubi was surprised as well.
''You..you..you'll be gone for years Sochi-kun...but if that is truly your decision...'' she said
'It is Kushina-kaa-chan, I realize I'm not normal like the others the monkey tail proves this, so I'd like to fully understand just what I am, but could you tell Saru-jiji, Mikoto-san, Tsume-san, Sasuke-teme, Itachi-san, hana-san, inu-nii-san, that I will be back so let them not worry of where I am and let them continue on with their lifes can you do this for me?'
Wiping the tears from her face she smiled, ''of course sochi-kun just hurry up with your training and come back to us...'' she said getting a chuckle from him.
'Heh you got it, kushina-kaa-chan...'
''Naruto-nii-kun?...'' said the silent voice of natsume, which naruto noted was to silent from natsume.
Worried he answered her, 'Yes, Natsume-chan is something wrong?'
Biting her lower lip she started to shake before speaking, ''please come back home quickly...I understand you need to train like I do but...but I'll miss you...kaa-chan will miss you...'' she said tears started to form in her blue eyes. Naruto flinched at her words, but steeled his resolve...
'I know this...and I'll come back as quick as I can...I promise. I mean I still owe you that day out don't I?' he said amusingly getting a giggle from her as well as Kushina.
The 'day outs' as they are called was practically Natsume dragging Naruto everywhere with her despite whatever it may be. She called it bonding with Onii-san, but he mentally calls it torture...
A few seconds of comfortable silence reigned in before naruto spoke once more, 'Um I gotta go guys, not sure if I have jiji's anbu on my tail or what, but I gotta get going, ok? Bye!'
Snapping their heads to his voice they spoke in unison, not knowing how long it would be before they saw Naruto again, ''Goodbye naruto-kun! Be safe!'' they said in unison.
With mental connection went out and Goku was smiling at the grinning Naruto, ''You have a wonderful family Naruto reminds me of my own a bit hehe, Though I suspect you are gonna get something very surprising when you meet them again...I just know it...'' Goku said with grin of his own. Naruto shaking his head at his master stood at attention and spoke, ''When should we begin Master Goku, Master Shenron?'' he asked, the two beings blinked and looked at each and blinked twice before grinning.
Turning his head back to naruto he spoke, ''We will begin by first getting you some new clothes and seeing as you have no money your gonna be doing some odd jobs that includes farming, construction, delivering milk, while using a old training method master Roshi used on me and my best friend krillin.'' goku said remembering the times he did the training. That's when a giant green turtle shell with two strap on's appeared in his hand and started handing it toward naruto.
Expecting it to weigh a bit Naruto grabbed hold of the shell only a second later hitting the ground with a loud 'THUD'.
''K-kami...how much does this thing weigh?...'' Naruto muttered and never saw the dark gleam in Goku's eyes.
''That Naruto will be your personal training weight until I'm satisfied with the results. Now get of here and get to training!'' he said personally kicking naruto out of his own mindscape when he was gone he heard shenron chuckling.
Raising an eyebrow in curiosity he asked, ''Shenron whats so funny?'' he asked the old dragon and saw the smirk of the dragon.
''Hahaha nothing just that 'turtle' shell weighs 10x more then what you had to begin with at your start of training...''
Blinking, Goku chuckled seeing where this was heading to, ''Ahh yeah about that well I just have a feeling that was the beginning of where he would need to start at.'' he asked getting a deadpanned look from the dragon.
''You call 20 ton's a beginning?'' he asked in a monotone like voice which Goku just nodded at. Shaking his head the dragon laid its head down thinking about his and Goku's new student and how his training should be planned out for the next few years...
End