An exhausted konaha genin ran tiresomely through the konaha forest, clutching documentation labelled "Top Secret"
An exhausted konaha genin ran tiresomely through the konaha forest, clutching documentation labelled "Top Secret". He could see his destination through the parting in the trees, the Hokage tower.
He spluttered a mixture of "excuse me," and "sorry" to almost everyone he pasted, due to him knocking half of them over. The massive red tower loomed in front of him, and he doubled his speed up the steps to the main entrance.
Two guards stopped him on the door, "Where do you think your going?" the man on the left questioned. "I've got some very urgent reports for Hokage Tsunade that she must see immediately!" the genin rasped as he almost coughed up a lung. The guard peered at the brown envelope in which the reports were held and noticed the "top Secret," notification, and quickly ushered him through to the Hokage's office.
Tsunade felt like she was drowning in paperwork once again, she scolded herself for neglecting to do it every night this week, she was too busy drinking sake with Jiraiya, "For old times sake," he said, she made a mental note to give him the most disgusting D-rank mission she could find once she had hacked away through the mountain of paperwork.
She was disturbed from the series of sadistic and extremely painful things she could do to Jiraiya by a knock on the door.
"Come in!" she shouted, half hoping it was Jiraiya so she could abuse him a little. "Hokage," the young genin said as he entered, and gave a rushed bow, "I have reports from the Anbu monitoring the S rank criminal Orochimaru." The genin nervously dropped the reports on the Hokage's desk and vacated the room quicker than would have seemed possible. Tsunade tore at the brown envelope like a half starved dog set upon a piece of raw meat.
Once she had read its contents she gasped, and ran flat out towards the pigeon coup atop the Hokage tower.
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A week later
Naruto was sat, rather predictably, at the ramen stall, in the middle of the village. It was where he had spent most of his time over the last week; Kakashi was too busy to train him this week, which confused Naruto because Kakashi always took Naruto's training as top priority, due to the coming of the Akatsuki.
"Look there he is." Naruto heard over the background noise of the village. He turned around and saw Sakura bounding down on him, with Sai walking timidly behind her with a apologetic look on his face.
"There you are you moron!" she yelled, sounding terrifyingly similar to Tsunade, "we've been looking for you everywhere. Do you never get tired of eating?" Sakura ranted looking at the six empty Ramen bowls at the side of Naruto. "Oh, what do you want?" Naruto asked innocently, only to get a charkra filled slap around the head, which made him feel like he was hit with a sledgehammer. "Tsunade wants us you idiot, its most likely a mission." Sakura explained calming down a little. "Lets go then!" Naruto urged as he threw money at the Ramen man, he was excited to finally have something to do, since he could only train when Kakashi was around, because he was following his ultra quick plan to learn how to use his charkra element, a plan that no one apart from Kakashi knew due to him making it up on his hospital bed.
The three teenagers set of towards the Hokage Tower. "Do you know whats up with Sakura today, she seems angry?" Naruto asked.
"I have no idea, I'm probably not the best person to ask though I don't get most people." Sai said, his voice lacking totally in emotion, just like normal.
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There was a knock on Tsunade's door, "Come in!" she yelled, with stress evident in her voice. Naruto, Sai and Sakura strolled into her office. They noticed Kakashi standing in the corner, completely enthralled in the latest Icha Icha book. The fact that Kakashi was there got Naruto even more excited, as it now seemed more likely to be a mission and not some odd training exercise. Tsunade lifted her head from the masses of paper on her desk, which showed the teenagers the dark bags under her eyes. The three ninjas suddenly got more serious, because if Tsunade was losing sleep over something then it must be deadly important. "Ok just before we start, I want to make it clear to you that what is said now must not mentioned again until outside the village, if this were to leak then it could lead to major panic and an economy breakdown." The three ninjas' eyes widened, then they all nodded showing their understandment.
"Right, we have reason to believe that Orochimaru has gained sufficient forces to rival Konaha, current figures show that his forces outnumber ours 2 to 1, so there is a likely possibility that if we go to war we could lose, badly." Tsunade said solemnly.
"Well what about the sand, we're allies aren't we?" Sakura asked.
"The sand has refused to go to war for us, there is too much at risk." Kakashi said from behind his book, he seemed unnervingly calm about the whole situation.
"I can't say I blame them either, I would do exactly the same thing. War weakens all its participants, which would leave them open for an attack from one of the other villages whose numbers are not depleted and war weary." Tsunade mentioned rather depressingly.
"So what are we going to do?" asked Naruto while looking at his feet, remembering the last attack by Orochimaru.
"Preparations have already begun, the villages defences have been increased ten fold, and Danzo has given us some additional support from the root to guard Konaha's borders." Sai flinched when Danzo was mentioned, due to him officially still being apart of the Anbu root.
"So whats all we are going to do, just sit back and wait for Orochimaru to come and destroy us?" Naruto asked, his eyes flashing red for a second. "No, as you should know it's not always the numbers that win the war, forty genin wouldn't stand a chance against ten Jounin." Tsunade stated simply.
"But Orochimaru has Kabuto and Sasuke, and you can bet that all of his followers have the curse seal making them all ten times more powerful," Sai stated without any emotion.
"Exactly," Tsunade said as if Sai had confirmed exactly what she was thinking. "How much do you know about the Legendary Fire country ninja, Fumito?" asked Kakashi to the teenagers' confusion.
"Only that he was born about 600 years ago, what help does that do us?" asked Sakura pondering where they were going with this.
"I want you to find him." Tsunade said.
"Are you crazy, he'll just be dust and bone by now," Naruto blurted out.
"No actually he is still alive, or at least he was thirty years ago when I learned most of my medical jutsu of him while away from the village."
"How the hell is that possible, nobody can live to be that old." Sakura said, "the body breaks down after a while due to carbon poisoning from breathing that's what makes you grow old."
"Well it would for normal humans, and all that I can say is that he is not very normal. He has a lot in common with Naruto." Tsunade pointed out. "He's a jinkuriki?" Naruto said surprised.
"No he isn't a jinkuriki, a jinkuriki is a person that has a demonic soul sealed inside their bodies, they are an effective prison to keep the demonic spirit at bay. But the spirit that is housed inside Fumito isn't demonic, quite the opposite really." Kakashi explained.
"When he was around your age Fumito was a ninja just like you are now, not much has changed from back then wars were raging back then as well, and there was a need for shinobi just as much as there is now. The young Fumito had a summoning contract with what was called an elemental, the most powerful in fact, these elementals could control the elements, and this elemental was called Hiroko, and she could control all of the elements. What we can gather from the scriptures is that Fumito and Hiroko fought side by side in a huge battle but lost, and Hiroko was mortally wounded, and as she was passing a desperate Fumito sealed her into his own body to try and save her life, but Hiroko's power was too much for his meagre frame and he was thrown into the face of destruction. Hiroko did the only thing she could think of to save his life, she bonded their two souls together so it became less volatile and the body accepted it. But there was another effect that Fumito wasn't expecting, where the Kyuubi's charkra is naturally poisonous to anything that touches it, Hiroko's charkra naturally heals it, so fixing the reason why people grow old, like you said before, poisoning from the naturally occurring chemicals that we breath, the poisoning was automatically healed as soon as it happened, he hasn't aged a day since he bonded with Hiroko." Tsunade explained, and to her surprise no one had any questions, so she continued, "he carried on learning over the years and has a very extensive arsenal when it comes to the ninja arts, he can use ancient techniques to beat anything Orochimaru throws at us."
Naruto sighed he could tell this was going to be one long mission.
I'm quite exited about this fan fic , it's the first 1 that I have spent more than just five minutes planing , even the names, can anyone workout what the name fumito means?
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