An :I always thought that the Rokushiki was the most badass set of moves in the history of One Piece. The straw hats were getting their asses whipped by the CP9 (who to this day are my favorite one piece villains). Since I've haven't read that many fanfics were Naruto used the Rokushiki in the world of Naruto, I've decided to put my hand in writing it. For the record, this is a Naruto fic but there will be a few references to One Piece and perhaps a few other Anime I decide to ste- I mean borrow from.
The Origin of Rokushiki
Chapter 1- Prologue
Rokushiki, the legendary martial arts style used by the Marines of the World Government and the assassins of the Cipher Pol Nine, is renowned for its near superhuman feats of strength and speed. Tekkai, Soru, Rankyaku, Shigan, Kami-e, and Geppo, these legendary skills are the symbols of the elite in the Marine Corps and one must have mastery of at least 4 of these to even become a member of the CP9. While these skills are well known for the power, very few know of their origins and even less know of the original purpose for those techniques. The Rokushiki wasn't created to defend absolute justice, to assassination the guilty, or even to protect the innocent; in fact, most of the moves were made by accident. All the man, whom would come to created six of the deadliest techniques known to man, wanted to do was survive his birthday.
Years before the creation of the World Government, there was a land that was separated into dozens of nations. However, there were only five important nations; these were the Land of Fire, The Land of Water, The Land of Earth, The Land of Lighting, and the Land of Wind. These nations were so powerful and important due to their shinobi villages. The strongest of these villages was Konohagakure no Sato (Village Hidden in the Leaves), located in the Land of Fire. This village was renowned for its unnatural large amount of genius ninja. Ninja like Hashirama and Tobriama Senju, Hiruzen Sarutobi, and the Legendary Sannin have made Konoha the most powerful village in the world. It is said that this isn't the only quirk of the hidden village, it also known as the most prosperous, most wealthy and most peaceful of all villages.
However, one day, disaster struck this peaceful village. A demon known as the Kyubbi no Kitsune, whose tails were said to flatten mountains and cause tsunamis, had attacked the village and caused horrific damage. Hundreds of shinobi and kunochi were killed by the demon before the Fourth Hokage combated the beast. However, even Konoha's Yellow Flash was unable to kill the Kyubbi; having no other choice, the Fourth Hokage sacrificed his own life to seal the demon inside a child, who was conveniently born that day. His final wish was for the villager to view the child a hero and to pity the boy for his burden; sadly, the attack had taken all the pity out of the villagers after that attack. The boy was treated like an outcast and only a few of the villagers obeyed the fourth's wish.
6 years after the Attack, October 10th
"Get Back Here!"
"Demon!"
"Monster, you'll pay for what you did!"
For the village of Konoha, this was a day of mourning. It was the sixth anniversary of the Kyubbi attack and the village wanted to remember those who gave their lives for the good of the village. Men and women shed tears and marked the graves of those brave men and spent the majority of the day trying to forget their losses. However, when the booze flowed, the intelligence dropped, and men become fearless. Now, the night was a time of screams and panting.
Naruto Uzumaki was sprinting down the streets of Konoha desperately trying to get away from the ever growing mob behind him. His sky blue eyes were red from the tears. His white t-shirt with a red spiral was ripped, torn, and dirty. His face was covered in dirt but one could still see three whisker marks on each of his cheeks. His cries of forgiveness and apologizes were drowned out by the shouts for blood. This continued for a few minutes before the spiky haired blonde took a wrong turn and ended up at dead end alley.
"Heh, looks like we finally got you trapped, you pathetic demon," one man in the crowd grinned.
"Please sir, I d-didn't do anything, I swear!" the boy cried, slowly backing up towards the wall in the back.
"Haven't done anything?" one member of the mob screeched, her voice laced with alcohol. "You took my husband away from me!"
"You took my parents away, you bastard," said another voice from a bit farther away.
"You stole everything we held dear, demon, now you're going to pay," the crowd attacked using everything they could get their hands on from bottles to bars of wood to even their own fists.
Throughout the beating, Naruto did what he normally did when a beating, he stayed absolutely still and concentrated on tightening his body. Naruto wasn't sure when he learned how to do this all he could remember is that when he was three, something in the back of his mind told him to stay absolutely still and to focus on his body. Back then, he wasn't very good at it and he was still injured pretty bad, but as the years went by he's gotten very good at this, to the point where barely felt anything when the villagers attacked him. However, if the occasional shinobi were to attack him, they would always manage to break through his defense somehow.
Was he not trying so hard to defend himself from the villagers' attack, Naruto would have been a bit proud of his ability to endure the villager's latest assault.
"This is amazing I getting better at this, I don't feel a thing!" he thought. If he was lucky, the crowd would eventually get tired and go away or maybe the ninja with the mask would save him. However this feeling of hope immediately died when he saw one man make his way through the mob.
"Move aside, I'll take care of this demon brat," the man bragged. He was an average sized man with short black hair; he wore the standard Konoha Chunin attire. The crowd gave way to allow the man through; he stop and took one look at the kid on the ground cowered in a ball. A small twinge of guilt racked his mind before the sight of seeing his beloved Sayuri being stomped by one of the Kyubbi's massive tails replaced it with uncontrollable hatred and anger.
"It's time to pay you monster," He ran as much charka as he could through his hands and began to beat the boy.
Naruto could only grit his teeth, while the Chunin's attack had hurt, he knew if his concentration lapsed for even on moment the pain would be a thousand times worst. So he forced himself to concentrate even harder on trying to tighten up even more.
The Chunin noticed this and was amazed that Naruto's skin, which was tough to punch even with charka infused punches, had suddenly gotten even stronger.
"What the hell?" he thought as he pulled his fist back in pain, "That felt like I was trying to punch through a brick house!" He glared at the boy and pulled out a kunai from his hoister. "I've had enough playing around with you fox!" He turned to the crowd, and said "Four of you hold the brats arms and legs so I can get a good shot!"
At this point, many in the crowd were beginning to have second thoughts. Not that they were concerned with the demon brat, but they knew the longer it won't be long before the Hokage or one of the ANBU would appear and arrest them. A few were also beginning to feel empty seeing as though they haven't gained anything by beating the boy and had already turned away. However, there were a few who were either so full of hatred to even recognize the danger they were in or perhaps too drunk to even care. Four of these people grabbed one of Naruto's limbs and held them down so he could move.
Naruto was scared out of his mind as he saw the Chunin walk up to him, with an evil grin plastered on his face and eyes that radiated hatred. Like an executioner, he raised the kunai above the blonde's heart and whispered "Good bye demon" and plunged. Time seemed to slow down for Naruto. He couldn't dodge thanks to those damned idiots holding his arms and legs, and wasn't sure if he could even take the kunai in the chest.
"No please I don't wanna die!" he screamed in his mind being unable to speak due to fright. He closed his eyes and waited for the kunai that was coming closer and closer to his heart.
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In Naruto's Mindscape
A presence in the back of the boy's mind let out grumble of annoyance.
"How pathetic, my existence is attached to a brat that can't even remember what street to turn to get to his apartment,"
"I can't pump any of my yokai into the kid yet, otherwise he'll die or be left in no condition to defended himself and more importantly me,"
"He already begun to learn my little trick for deflecting physical attacks, perhaps if I give him just a little nudge in the right direction, he'll be able to survive tonight…"
***Line Break***
In the real world
Naruto was about to be stabbed when a small thought ran through his mind, "I could try that thing with my muscles!". Naruto had no time to think about where the thought came from and concentrated all of his energy into strengthening his body.
The kunai reached brat's chest but much to the surprise of the chunin and the men hold him; the blade had just barely managed to break the skin. A single drop of blood dripped out of the boy's body and rolled down the side of his chest. "What the hell!" the chunin thought in surprise. He raised the blade to strike again but a hand had grabbed his arm.
"What the ..." he said in surprise before the man began to speak.
"By order of the Hokage you, Shinji Tamayama, are to be executed for attacking a civilian and for intent to kill." The man said in monotone. He wore black ninja garbs with a bear mask covering his face. The only part of him that looks remotely human was the shock of brown hair sticking above his hair. He then turned to the men holding Naruto and added, "For assisting in attempted murder, your penalties are also death."
The chunin growled in anger and tried to strike the bear masked ANBU but a wet shlink caused the man to drop to the ground, his eyes lifeless and his head separated from his body.
The men who were holding Naruto instantly dropped the boy as a line of blood appeared diagonally across their chests. The person who killed them had on the same black ninja clothes that the man with the bear mask had, however this person had long purple hair and a porcelain mask. The woman sheathed her sword before turning to the bear masked man, "Is he all right,"
"The boy appears fine, he seems to have fainted from the shock but other than that he's fine." The man replied picking up the child.
"Okay, take the boy to his home while I go to the Hokage and explain what happened," she said before shuishining away.
Naruto woke up the next morning with a jump; he was breathing hard, his face dripping in sweat. He looked around and saw that he was in his room and that he was in his bed.
"Was that all a dream," he said out loud. He tore off the covers of his bed and saw that he was still wearing the cloths he had on from last night. They were ripped and torn at odd intervals, and a single stain of blood was at the center of his shirt. "So all that did happen last night," Naruto thought sadly as he got of his bed. The first thing Naruto noticed was the lack of any kind of pain ,no matter how much endured a beating, there would always be a some form of soreness or pain even if he had fully healed. Shrugging this off, Naruto walked into his kitchen and pulled out a bowl of instant ramen. After cursing the 5 minutes it takes for the noodles to cook, he began to eat. However, his mind surprisingly wasn't on the delicious meal in front of him. His thoughts were on what he did last night, he had passed out from the strain of stopping a kunai from punching through him, but he managed to stop a kunai from killing him. The boy knew that he had stamina out the ass, and he could normally absorb most blows, but last night he had managed to do something even high Jonin couldn't do. How the hell had he managed to do that?
"Maybe I should ask jiji if he heard of anything like this," he thought as he finished the bowl and decided to go for seconds.
Hiruzen Sarutobi, known as the Professor and the God of Shinobi, this man is famous for being not only the longest reigning Hokage in the Konoha's history, but also as (arguably) the strongest one as well. Reputed as knowing over 1000 justus, the man was definitely not one to be trifled with. Yet, the foe before him was perhaps to powerful for even this man to conquer. With a mighty battle cry, he plunged his hand and stamped the Hokage's stamp on to form in front of him. The Third Hokage gave a happy sigh, he was finally finished with the paperwork … for now; he knew that another even bigger pile was going to plague him soon. However his thoughts went from his paperwork to another nuisance.
His ANBU had spoken to him late last night and what he heard greatly disturbed him. While he was glad that Naruto wasn't seriously harmed, his ability to take a beating that your average ninja wouldn't off manage to walk from provides a serious problem. He knew that the boy was attacked before but has always would have some kind of bruise to show for it. Naruto had already told him how he was able to endure attacks and the Hokage knew that the Kyuubi has something to do with it, after all the fox was known for being able to endure any attack that hit it. Perhaps the fox was excreting some kind of influence on the boy if only subconsciously. He was brought from this musings when the door to his office slammed open.
"Hokage-sama, Naruto is here to see you." His assistant Kasami told him.
The old man gave a smile and said "All right, let him in I'm finished with my work for the most part anyway."
She nodded and turned around, seconds later the blonde practically kicked the door open and rushed inside. Any thoughts that the child was being influenced by the fox were destroyed when he saw that famous grin on the boy's face. His sapphire blue eyes were shinning and his face seemed to glow.
"Hey, Jiji" the boy said rather loudly, "'bout ready to give up that hat yet?"
"Well, Naruto, I think that I have about a good few years left as Hokage. But when I do desire to retire again, I trust that you will be strong enough to take over for me?" he asked rhetorically for Sarutobi already knew what the boy was going to say.
"Hah, of course I'll be strong to replace you as Hokage soon!" Naruto shouted.
"Good, Good. I was afraid last night might have knocked some of that spirit out of you."
With that statement, Naruto seemed to deflate a little and his grin shrank a little, "Yeah, but it's nothing out of the ordinary right?"
The Hokage was saddened that Naruto had grown accustomed to constant beatings and attacks. His eyes drifted from the boy in front of him to the pictures on the wall behind him. They stopped when they reached a man with blond hair, blue eyes, and a small smile on his face.
"Oh Minato, you would be rolling in your grave if you saw what was happening to your son,"
"Oh, that reminds me jiji, there was something that I wanted to tell you," Naruto said suddenly. The Hokage was brought from his thoughts by the tone of voice that Naruto had used. It was low and quiet almost like he was trying to tell a secret and his head was looking down towards the ground.
"Yes, Naruto?"
"Last night, when I was being beat up," Sarutobi shuddered slightly, "I didn't feel anything, I knew they were hitting me, I could feel their punches and stuff but I wasn't being hurt?" the boy looked up, and his eyes sent the Hokage a questioning gaze.
"I see, how do you feel right now?"
" I feel fine, just a bit sore like as though I ran for a few miles,"
"Hmm…"
"I was wondering if you could tell me how I did it," the boy asked. The look on his eyes changed from questioning glance to one reminiscent to pleading.
The Hokage's heart went out to the boy, only six years old and understands that he shouldn't have lived through the attack from last night. Of course, Sarutobi had some idea of how Naruto was doing it, but he couldn't tell the boy, at least not right now.
"Well, since I missed your birthday, I guess I could tell you how you managed to survive that attack, you see it has to do with your family," the boy's face lightened up at the mention of family, then again him being an orphan it was completely understandable.
"You see the Uzumaki clan was famous for their toughness and their large amount of endurance and stamina," the Hokage said, thinking that it wasn't a total lie.
"So do you happen to know anything about my parents?" Naruto asked, a sense of hope shinning in his voice.
"Unfortunately, I don't remember much on your parents, they rather average shinobi and I wasn't around them often," the old man lied smoothly. He hated to lie to the boy but at the moment it was for the best. Naruto seemed to be effected by this as his head slumped and his eyes lost a bit of the light they had.
Quickly trying to fix the situation, the Hokage added, "Don't feel to down Naruto, I'm sure that your parents love you, I know it for a fact,"
This seemed to work, the boy was coming out of his little spell, "Anyway, how about I treat you to some ramen okay,"
And with that any trace of sadness was gone, the boy looked up with a smile on his face and said "All right, come on old man let's go!" The Hokage gave a smile and was about to get up when the tell-tale whirl of leaves appeared. At the center, an ANBU officer with a weasel mask appeared, he was already in a kneeling position.
"Hokage-sama, I have urgent news to tell you about them," he said in a flat monotone voice.
The old man nodded and said, "I'm sorry Naruto but I going to have to take a rain check on that ramen," Instantly the boy's eyes were down casted again. "But how about I send somebody out with you to make sure that you get yourself a few bowls?" His eyes seemed to brighten up slightly and a small smile was on his face.
The Hokage walked Naruto to the door and said to Kasami "Can you please assign a ninja to watch Naruto for me, tell them its B-rank pay."
"Well, sir there is one man that was going to request a mission from you, but he seemed a bit off, if you catch my drift," she replied.
"It doesn't matter, I just send him in,"
Some 30 seconds passed before, a loud voice declared, "Hai, Hokage-sama, I am ready to complete any mission with the Power of Youth!"
Naruto stood wide-eyed; the man in front of him was louder than he was. He had on a green jumpsuit with a matching green flax jacket. However, it was his head that mainly caught his attention; he had a shiny bowl hair cut that was out shinned by his sparking almost blinding teeth. To top it all off, he had two huge eyebrows that looked like two caterpillars crawled on his face and decide that they didn't want to move.
The ANBU and Hokage sweat dropped, "Um, thank you, Guy. This mission I am assigning you to is B-rank, do you accept it"
Might Guy gave a huge smile and shouted, "Hai, Hokage-sama! I will complete this mission with great speed and if I fail then I will do 100 D- rank missions in one day, and if I can't do that I will run around the village 400 times and give …"
"Okay, Okay. Your mission is to escort this boy here to Ichirama's Ramen Stand,"
Guy looked down and noticed Naruto for the first time since he entered the room.
"He is not to be bothered by anyone or there will be serious consequences, am I clear Guy," The Hokage said in a serious tone.
Guy returned his gaze to the Hokage and gave his patented Nice Guy Pose, "Don't worry about anything Hokage-sama, I will be sure that he'll get there safely!"
"Good, here is the money to pay for the meal," The Hokage said with a smile, "Naruto, I'll talk to you later,"
"All right, jiji, I'll talk to you later!" the kid said while returning the smile.
That's the end of the first chapter an okay one I suppose. Nothing left to say but please review it simple and easy just click the button below. And remember everytime you review the chances of Sasuke surviving the series dramatically changes. For better or worse, I'm not telling!