Naruro: The Ultimate Kenjutsushi

by The Grim Overlord

What is a kenjutsushi? It is one who chooses to train himself in the way of the body, the soul and the blade. One who gives up the world to attain power, and yet still remains attached to it. But most important of all, a kenjutsushi is one who destroys anything and anyone who gets in the way of his goals, or rather, his dreams. Naruto gives up the way of the ninja for the sword.

1. Chapter 1: Prologue

NARUTO:

THE ULTIMATE KENJUTSUSHI

By The Grim Overlord

A/N: Hello and welcome to the very first instalment of 'Naruto : The Ultimate Kenjutsushi' , hopefully this story will prove to be enjoyable to some of you, and to the others, well I hope you'll at least take the time to write a short review telling me where I went wrong. Without (too much) further ado, here is the first of (hopefully) many to come.

The First And Only Disclaimer In This Story...

I The Grim One, Though I Know That The Grim One Is Not My Name But Rather A Pretty Cool Pen Name, Still Does Not Own Naruto,

The End

Beast Speech

"I am a big, furry fox that can kill you all!

Beast Thought

'But, deep down I am only trying to compensate for the pain of losing the one I thought of as a father'

Human Speech

"Hi, my name is Naruto! Let's be best friends for ever and ever! Did you know my psychologist told me I have serious issues due to the fact that I was hated by 99.99 percent of the population in my village?"

Human Thought

'I wish I had ramen right now'

Jutsu

Suiton: Suijinheki (Water Style: Water Wall)

Leaves danced through the night sky over Konohagakure, the ninja village that was (arguably) the greatest of all ninja villages. The carved faces of the hokage both dead and alive watched over the village with their sharp piercing gaze, a gaze that spoke of protection and freedom to all who looked at it. All was right with the world... Until a gigantic figure appeared amongst the trees of the forest, it's long tails moving with an almost serpent-like quality. It was so huge that its shadow covered half of Konoha- and it was still well over a mile away!

This grand creature was none other than the harbinger of death, the great Kyuubi no Kitsune, the nine tailed bijuu. It took a few minutes before the general population knew of the beast's arrival and yet as soon as people began panicking ninja were there to begin evacuation procedures, sort of like assassinating guardian angels. It was so meticulously planned that it seemed as though preparations had already been made in cases such an event were to occur, but that was to be expected when two kage-level ninja were in watching over Konoha.

The basic plan was simple- everybody that lived in the village that were below the rank of chunin, including civilians were to be evacuated to the inside of the Hokage Mountain by the chunin level ninja. Everybody who was jounin levelled and above were to engage the bijuu in combat while they awaited the arrival of the fourth hokage who was to come to their aid and defeat the gargantuan fox.

Hiruzen Sarutobi was one such individual, though he was much higher in rank than a simple jounin. As the ex-hokage, Hiruzen was essentially the commander of the entire ninja force, a position that required a lot of on the spot planning and skill in all things military.

His eyes were sunken and the skin on his face looked like the human equivalent of dried leather. His arms and legs looked thin and frail and his ninja clothing was old and battle worn yet this man was still one of the greatest fighters in the elemental nations which spoke heaps about how skilled he must have been in his prime.

He was standing in a clearing in the forest surrounding Konoha, beautiful trees and lush greenery surrounded the area while the moonlight danced though the trees. As Sarutobi looked down at a map of the region he began barking orders to the ninja assembled in front of him, without even once looking up from the map. He did this for two reasons, the first being that it was much more efficient and less time consuming the second, and most important reason was that Hiruzen didn't want to see the faces of the ninja he sent to battle because he would have been overcome with guilt to know that he was sending his men to their deaths, he couldn't do it. It was one of his main reasons he had handed his hat over to Minato, a person could only handle a finite amount of grief and regret before they cracked and Sarutobi's limit had been exceeded years ago.

"Shikaku, you are to try and slow down the kyuubi while Chouza and Inoichi attack him from the front, you will be led by Kakashi who is to do as he sees fit. There are already several other teams engaging the beast three miles south of here, so try not to get in their way"

The Sandaime was counting heavily on Kakashi's squad to hold off the kyuubi for long enough for himself and Minato to initiate a good enough plan to defeat the fox.

"As for the rest of you who were not assigned to a team, you are to weaken the bijuu by launching it with your most powerful long-range attacks, when you leave here let only one thought guide your actions; you are doing this for the good of the village, for your brothers, sisters, fathers, mothers and children. Now, move out!"

Each and every ninja in the clearing saluted the Sandaime before moving out, for many it would be the last salute they ever gave.

Kakashi could feel the uncontrollable bloodlust of the kyuubi, could see his own death occur over and over. He watched as the demon ripped him to shreds with his teeth, scratched him to pieces with his claws, knocked him aside with his mountain shattering tails...sat on him.

It was unbelievable just how much raw killing intent simply rolled off the monstrous fox, it was incomparable to any other fear he had felt before and Kakashi was definitely not one to get scared by an impressive amount of Ki from even an experienced jounin. Heck, he could probably handle the Ki of a standard kage-level ninja. And yet this beast before him made him feel as though he was an ant facing off against a lion. And not just because it was ten stories tall and he was only a reasonably average sized human being.

"Okay, you guys know the drill. I'll try and back you up."

It would have been slightly weird ordering around some elite, veteran shinobi, but the Ino-Shika-Cho trio were freshly minted jounin, although Shikaku only became a jounin because his wife had threatened him.

Struggling to brush off the murderous feeling that hung in the air, Kakashi jumped from tree to tree to get to where the massive beast was slowly strolling towards the village. Of course, being a being of such large proportions a slow stroll actually covered a rather large portion of ground in a short time. The beast would probably make it to the village in twenty minutes or less if they didn't slow him down.

The trio had just gotten in formation, Shikaku was hiding behind some nearby bushes with his hands in the infamous seal his clan was widely known for, Chouza and Inoichi were close to the bijuu's massive feet while Kakashi was standing amidst some trees, going through a large amount of handseals.

For a while it was nerve wrackingly quiet, they only sounds Kakashi could hear was the steady beating of his own heart... Until several fireballs were shot at the Kyuubi, which was the signal to begin the attack. Immediately several-of what seemed to be- black tentacles creeped along the ground towards the massive fox and grabbed his leg, forcing it towards the ground and holding it in place at the same time Chouza (who had been eating handfuls of soldier pills while waiting for the signal) expanded to the size of a giant and grabbed the fox in a sleeper hold. Still having the element of surprise, Inoichi quickly and efficiently began placing paper bombs underneath the orange belly of the fox and retreated to a safe area.

It happened in a flash. One minute everything seemed perfectly planned, the massive fox was in a headlock, paper bombs were littered in the hundreds beneath him and his leg was being held firmly to the ground, the next Chouza (who was now as large as a small skyscraper) was held firmly in the grip of one of the monsters nine tails and was flung into a mountain with the ease a grow man would feel when throwing away a piece of paper, the paper bombs exploded and yet it didn't even faze the furry creature let alone cause any real damage. As for the "shadow tentacles" it seemed as though the kyuubi hadn't even realized that his leg was held down and took a step without even slowing down in the slightest.

Unfortunately, because of the sound the bombs had given off the fox turned his head towards the tiny ninja scattered at his feet and attacked them with his paw. Both Inoichi and Shikaku were K.O'd as a result, even though Kakashi had constructed a hastily made a Doton: Douryouheki (Earth Style: Mud Wall) to block the attack.

As soon as the monster had lifted his paw off the two now near comatose jounin Kakashi threw several smoke bombs at the fox's feet/paws which covered the area in a thick blanket of black smoke.

Meanwhile, With Hiruzen

As his ninja- or at least, what used to be his ninja, left the Sandaime Hokage took a deep breath and began channelling his chakra while performing the seals for the summoning jutsu, which was a space-time ninjutsu that allowed the user to call forth a summon creature from its own dimension.

He then placed his hand on the ground and, using all the chakra he had managed to gather thus far he summoned his own personal favourite summoning the monkey king Enma, who arrived in a literal poof of smoke. The appearance of the monkey king was rather similar to that of its summoner, that of someone long past their prime, though, in comparison he was in much better shape.

"Sarutobi... It's been a while since you've summoned me, though, judging by that foul chakra hanging in the air it's probably not so that we could have a drink."

"I wish it was my old friend, it would have been much less harmful to my health," said Hiruzen

"And since you seem to realize the gravity of the situation I assume you know what to do"

"Right" replied Enma simply

The monkey king then, in another loud 'poof' of smoke transformed into a black staff with both ends being tipped in gold. This was none other than the legendary staff of 'The Professor', the one that was said to be as strong as diamond.

Without a moment of hesitation Sarutobi grabbed the staff while it was still in mid-air and in one fluid motion placed it on his back. He immediately jumped to the trees and began jumping from branch to branch all the while channelling chakra to his feet in an effort to arrive at the battlefield sooner.

As he jumped he could just barely make out a fireball being fired at the gigantic nine-tailed fox before he saw the expanding figure of Chouza and the tell-tale explosion at the kyuubi's feet. As he saw Chouza being thrown into a mountain he began channelling even more chakra into his feet to increase his speed.

He arrived no more than one minute later to see Kakashi running up the kyuubi's body with blue lightning covering his hand and making a noise that sounded eerily similar to the sound of birds chirping, at least before Kakashi tried to stab it into the beast's neck- probably trying to aim for a weak point in the creature's anatomy to cause enough damage to buy enough time for a debilitating attack to be dealt to it.

It was a plan worthy of one proclaimed to be a genius, and Hiruzen would have tipped his hat off to Kakashi if he hadn't left it in the hokage mansion, before the attack simply bounced off harmlessly at least.

'Incredible...to be able to not only not even get a scratch when attacked by Kakashi's legendary 'chidori', but to deflect it completely? If it weren't such a dire situation I would probably be running in the opposite direction.'

Trusting Kakashi's hastily assembled squad to be able to handle themselves well enough he headed towards the right side of the monster where the rest of the teams assembled were preparing to deal a massive ninjutsu assault against the monster invader.

He just barely noticed the faces of several well-known Uchiha members in the crowd, including Fugaku Uchiha the candidate for the head of the clan, begin preparing a long ninjutsu that required seventeen hand seals to complete correctly, essentially it was just a much larger, deadlier version of the 'Dragon-flame jutsu' though he wasn't supposed to know that as it was supposed to be a clan secret. And sure enough one of the Uchiha wasn't aiding the others in the creation of the fire jutsu but was casting subtle genjutsu to prevent anyone from finding out the handseal combinations

But, being the hokage for more than half of your lifetime did indeed have its benefits. Some of them being the right to look over privileged and secret information, another being the hidden compartments of the desk in his office, and another being his 'magic orb' that allowed him to look ANYWHERE in the village undetected. It was like a private peepshow-though, with all the benefits there was a lot of pressure. And this pressure could manifest itself in different ways. Including in the form of a gigantic beast probably weighing more than five tons staring you right in the face with its eye that was nearly bigger than your entire body.

'It seems as though he's noticed me...Crap, better do something fast'

Snatching the staff off his back he barely managed to block a fatal clawed stamp of the kyuubi's paw he had to use all the strength he could muster to get back on his feet after being pushed to the ground by the power of the monster. Luckily the paw was taken off him and he could jump back to catch his breath.

Unfortunately the paw was only taken off so the monster could try and pounce on the elderly ninja who was now forced to jump back to avoid the attack. Trying to counter, Sarutobi launched a bunch of hand seals to activate his jutsu

"Earth Style: Earth Dragon Bomb (Doton: Doryudan)"

The head of a dragon came from the ground and opened its mouth to shoot a ball of mud at the kyuubi, making no sign of any damage whatsoever on the aforementioned monster.

'Shit...It seems as though only the most powerful of my blunt-forced jutsu will do any sort of damage on him and Kakashi's little demonstration proved that none of my shuriken jutsu or any other ninja tool based attack will work, and even if I manage to do any damage to him with his freakish healing ability it won't give us even fifteen seconds of time before he fully recovers. It seem as though I'll have to use that technique again..."

The technique the sandaime was thinking of was the most powerful barrier ninjutsu in his arsenal-in his prime it would have been able to hold the nine-tailed fox with ease, now however, he would be lucky to hold the beast back for an hour. But if he wanted to activate the jutsu he would need time...lots of time. It was sort of ironic, to buy time for the yondaime Sarutobi would have to be given time.

"Attention all ninja... I have a plan that could give us enough time to let the yondaime come into the battle, but for it to work I'll need you to stall the fox for twenty minutes. Understood?" said Hiruzen while using a jutsu taught to the academy teachers to amplify one's own voice.

The ninja responding didn't use any funny voice-amplification jutsu to answer the kage but the sea of voices that answered "Yes Sir!" was more than enough proof to Hiruzen Sarutobi that his ninja, the ninja of this village would give him enough time to complete his jutsu because if there was one thing that he believed in it was the people of Konoha. Sure, all of them were hard-headed and had temper problems- especially kunoichi... A fine example of that would be his ex-pupil Tsunade, the best medic-nin of the shinobi nations.

Roughly 15 min. Later

It was complete and utter chaos.

One minute everything seemed to be going all according to plan for the Konoha ninja, the next minute all their plans were shot straight to hell. At first it had seemed as though they were slowing the giant of a fox down, maybe even causing it some real damage, until the fox decided to 'magically' heal all its wounds in an instant- and get this, apparently it turns out that the fight they'd been having with the bijuu earlier was actually nothing more than a little game the beast had been playing with them- probably to f**k with their minds, now the beast was completely and totally dominating them and had destroyed nearly thirty-five percent of the entire ninja force of the leaf village.

Sarutobi was forced to watch the brutal murder of his men as the beast laid rampage to his forces while he prepared to activate his kekkai jutsu (barrier jutsu), but now it was complete and he pressed his palms to the ground, expertly channelling the energy he had managed to collect into the jutsu. Silently muttering the name of the technique four semi-transparent walls of orange light rose quickly from the ground, effectively sealing the bijuu in a chakra 'cage'.

'I swear… I will make you pay, Kyuubi!' thought the aged kage.

The problem though was that he couldn't make the monster pay, he just didn't have any jutsu powerful enough to do such a thing in his current aged state. And just as he had given up hope a toad nearly as large as the fox beast itself appeared, though that was not what rekindled his hope. No, it was the silhouette of a cloaked man that stood upon it who did that. The Sandaime could barely make out the relieved shouts of his men as they ran from the barrier, 'The Yondaime is here!'.

Relief flooded though the aged kage before he witnesses the extremely large toad boss summon- Gamabunta, on his head stood the fourth hokage, Minato Namikaze, the yellow flash. A flash of light illuminated the forest and when it was gone so was the kyuubi. At least for the moment, that is…

TIMESKIP: 7 YEARS LATER

The park was a place where children could play and make new friends, there are hundreds of tales of friendships and even romances starting out in the Konoha park, tales which would delight and enthral those it was told to- parents told stories of the park to their children which they had learned from their parents who had learned it from their parents, today though would definitely not become one of those tales for a young boy sat alone on a park bench, his head drooping. The boy had blonde hair with slight bangs framing his face, which had three vertical slash like birth marks on each side of his face, giving him a fox like appearance. His ocean blue eyes contained a hint of sadness and the white sweater he wore had an orange swirl.

The boy's name was Naruto Uzumaki and he was the local village pariah, many of the people who lived in the village would whisper amongst themselves when he approached and often times he thought they had mouthed the words 'demon' or even 'kyuubi'. The nickname Kyuubi was the one that confused him the most though- as far as he knew he didn't even have one tail let alone nine and he had very thoroughly checked too! When he had asked the old man to about it the man had just told him that he must have been imagining things and the old man would never lie to him so it must have been true, his mind must have been playing tricks on him.

But all he wanted to know right now was why the adults didn't want him to play with their kids in the park, it wasn't as if he had pranked them- ok so maybe that was a lie, but it had been partially truthful, he hadn't yet pranked ALL of them, though that was simply a matter of time…. Yes, simply a matter of time….Shaking his head to get rid of his somewhat evil intentions he looked up only to see a young pink haired girl playing by herself in the sand pit. A wide grin now adorning himself he excitedly jumped off the bench and ran towards the little girl.

"Hi! My name is Naruto! Wanna play?"

Now that he saw her up close he could see that she was about his age with green eyes, her hair, which was a vivid pink reached about the middle of her neck. She did however seem to be a bit taken aback by the blondes noisy introduction but was secretly nearly as excited as he was to finally meet someone who wanted to play with her.

"Sure… What did you want to play?" said the girl somewhat hesitantly.

Seemingly even more excited at being accepted on his offer Naruto excitedly replied "Tag!"

The girls nose seemed to crinkle up in disgust when she heard what he wanted to play "No way! Tag is for boys! I'm not a boy! How about we build sandcastles instead?"

"Huh-uh, I don't wanna make sandcastles, I wanna play tag, besides I'm a boy and we boys play tag!" said Naruto

The pink haired girl huffed indignantly "If that's how you want to be then I don't want to play with you!"

"Wait-wait-wait! I'll build sandcastles, okay?"

The little girl scooted to the side so that Naruto could have room in the sand box. For about fifteen minutes they laughed, teased and played with one another and even managed to build a sandcastle so big nearly all the sand in the box was used up, which they eventually named the Great-super-beautiful-deadly-cherry-konoha castle as a result of differing name opinions. They were just about to add a sixth floor when what seemed to be an older, grouchier version of the young girl shouted at the little girl

"Sakura! Come here this instant, it's time to go home"

"But mom!" argued the pink haired girl

"No buts young lady! You get away from that boy this second!" said the girls mother

Resigned to her mother's will the pink haired girl walked as slowly as she could towards her mom. Realizing something important Naruto ran after her.

"Wait! I forgot to ask your name!" shouted Naruto

Resisting the urge to giggle at the boy because of sand that covered his head (she had admittedly gotten slightly angry when he had tried to name the sandcastle 'Naruto's super –awesome –spectacular –shadowy –ninja fortress-castle) she replied "My names Sakura" hearing her mother shout for her she was forced to run so that her mother didn't decide to take away her dessert.

'Sakura, huh? It's a really nice name… I wonder if she'd want to eat ramen with me…" unknowingly Naruto's cheeks gained a slightly red tinge.

MEANWHILE: THE OUTSKIRTS OF KONOHA

Along the road towards Konoha a large man covered in a black travellers cloak walked slowly and purposefully towards the ninja village. On his back was a large sword that was held in a plain leather scabbard which had a strap that ran over his right shoulder. He had very spiky black hair that reached his waist. A scar ran from above his left eye towards his mouth strengthening his already frightening appearance and the aura of deadliness he carried. His brown eyes were hardened as though he had been through many years of hardship and war.

Suddenly a thin, average looking man who wore a standard shinobi pants appeared above his head, a katana held firmly in both hands ready to decapitate the giant of a man whom he had been following for nearly a month, just waiting for a moment when the man would drop his guard. A thin, barely noticeable grin appeared on the face of the larger swordsman as a loud 'tzing' sound was heard, signifying the clash of metal on metal.

"Kouman Kyoudai! I am here for your head!" shouted the younger man

The smile grin which had graced the larger man's-now known as Kouman- face simply got wider upon learning this. "They all say that," The source of the previous clashing noise was Kouman simply lifting his blade slightly out of its scabbard to intercept the blade aimed at his neck "before I kill them that is".

Quickly drawing his sword with the same hand that had grasped it earlier, he threw his attacker into a tree by swinging the blunt edge of the blade into his attacker. The younger man quickly stood up from his downed position though it was obvious that he was walking with an obvious limp and his head had a large, cartoonish bump. As the two swordsman engaged in battle it was obvious just how much Kouman was playing around with his thinner opponent as each time their swords clashed the younger mans arms were thrown back and his sword nearly flew from his hands, and he was just using his right hand to swing his sword which was more than twice the size of the opposing katana.

Quickly getting bored of simply swinging his sword he whispered "Nashide: Kiru!"

, the younger man's face was on of shock as the larger man was somehow instantly behind him walking onwards towards the village a large gash appeared across the man's chest, blood squirting from the wound.

Shaking his head in annoyance, Kouman said "Youngsters these days simply have no fear for their superiors…" As he walked on the symbol for beast flashed briefly on the back of his cloak, and the silhouette of a large creature surrounded his body.

A/N: And That's All Folks. Well that's the first chapter of my first story done and dusted, hope you guys, girls and others enjoyed it. And also can anyone let me know if the manga and anime's been improving. I stopped watching (and reading) sometime after Kishimoto gave Sasuke about a million powerups- including the eternal mangekyo sharingan, I'd really appreciate it!

-THE GRIM OVERLORD-