Chapter 1
Act 1 — chapter 1
"Human talking"
'Human Thinking'
Jutsu/Technique
"Non-human talking"
'Non-human thinking'
A/N-please read author's notes in the chapter. Now, this is my 13th story and I decided to do a change on the first plots I've ever written. The ignored series, this one will have a twist and different from others as it is my version. At times, it may seem similar to other ignored story or ones that I've done similar too, but that is purely coincidental. And I am going to state for the record, despite what Kishimoto would want us to believe, Naruto is OP in the anime/manga. Think about the opponents he fought that had proper training compare himself-thought/informal style, think about that. I'm also sure without a doubt even without Sasuke, our blond hero would and could have defeated Kaguya, hell the only reason they were able to seal her was because of Naruto's Reverse Harem Jutsu.
Lastly please remember to read the author's notes at the end of each chapter, thank you and let us begin.
Giving up is not an option, I never gave up on anything; well unless if you count my bonds with my family, but I would need to have bonded with my family and we never bonded — The black hunter.
Disclaimer: I don't own anything in the story just my own Ideas.
A young teen of eighteen remained silent, not making a single sound nor motion lest he be discovered. His hair was a brilliant shade of gold as if it had been kissed by the sun itself, with red stripes running through it that have it at an almost fierce appearance. On either cheek, three whisker marks adorned the lightly tanned skin on his face. He watched the scene from a great distance with his bright, piercing blue eyes.
The question as to why he was doing this does come to mind, so the answer shall be explained.
First off, to answer what he was observing, it was two girls. Both had red hair, but the difference was that one had violet-gray eyes while the other's eyes were a shade of blue not unlike his own. They were Naruko Uzumaki Namikaze (the violet-eyed one) and Narumi Uzumaki Namikaze (the blue-eyed one). Both were at the age of eleven and were twin sisters. Their parents were none other than Minato Namikaze and Kushina Uzumaki.
Minato Namikaze was a man who had earned the moniker, the Yellow Flash of Konoha due to his use of his famous technique, the Hiraishin No Jutsu/Flying Thunder God Technique that literally brought about the end of the Third Great Shinobi World War. The man dubbed the Yellow Flash was also known as the Yondaime Hokage of the Konoha.
Kushina Uzumaki was affectionately dubbed the Red Hot Habanero by her peers, but on the battlefield and outside of the village, she was the Red Mistress of Death that was known for her fearsome prowess in the fields of kenjutsu, Fūinjutsu and, one of her trademark abilities, to be able to craft spiked chains of pure chakra that could act to restrain even a creature as mighty as a Bijū.
Naruko and Narumi were both the blonde's younger twin sisters and thus he shared the blood of Minato and Kushina as they were also his parents. Now, why would a child of both the strongest Konoha shinobi be watching from afar? The reason being both his twin sisters each held one-half of the massive amount of chakra that had once been the Kyūbi no Kitsune. Naruko held the Yang while Narumi held the Yin leaving Naruto being the third wheel/side-dish/unwanted toy/the non-precious...well you get the picture.
On the day of the twins' births, the Kyūbi had attacked Konoha. Now the original plan devised by the Yondaime was for him to perform the sealing ritual known as the Shiki Fuuin/Reaper Death Seal that would allow him to seal the two halves of the Kyūbi's chakra into his daughters at the cost of his own life as the Shiki Fuuin required him to sacrifice his soul to the Shinigami, the God of Death. The plan was successful, but with one detail being changed.
In an act of desperation that saved the children a fatherless life, Hiruzen Sarutobi, the Sandaim Hokage and Minato's predecessor, knocked out Minato and took his place to seal away the Kyūbi into Narumi and Naruko, despite his old age.
But to Naruto, it seems the death of the old monkey's wife pushed him over the edge and wanted to go out with a bang.
Kushina was able to survive her Bijū being extracted due to her using a seal that Mito Uzumaki planted just in case the Kyūbi was to be forcefully extracted. The seal would heal her chakra coils and replenish them with the purified youkai the seal stored.
Minato told the events of what happened with the Kyūbi, how the beast was controlled by a masked man, which had proven to be a blow to the Uchiha since, from history, the Sharingan was rumored to control the beast. Then he announced to the villagers of the two heroes...his daughters.
It had gotten progressively worse with every passing year. For the longest time, not once did they pay attention to him...not once did they do what he would suggest for a family activity. It would always be what the twins wanted. He was pretty much ignored.
Even his godparents, Tsunade Senju, and Jiraiya ignored him. This resulted in the involvement of anyone who was friends with his family or was their students. But it went sour after his sisters completely turned cold towards him eight years ago and try as he might, and he tried desperately, they just flat out ignored and acted like he was the plague or something?
But it didn't stop there, no it didn't, even the villagers as a whole forgotten that he was part of the perfect family. Some of the more ignorant villagers thought he was the Kyūbi because of his whisker marks and treated him as such — smirk at him being so weak or looked at him in a smug fashion as if mocking him. Some even attacked him in hopes to kill the demon brat, the stain of humanity, etc. So his sisters were praised as heroes while he was an outcast.
You would think that this would certainly raise suspicion or even attention, but no it didn't in the slightest. Since as soon as he got home, he would find it lock and he had to climb over with his bruised body, which healed easily overnight so there was no proof and so he couldn't do anything.
It stopped around six years ago and now the villagers just ignored his very existence, like Naruto wasn't even alive or even existing. The blond felt relieved and he thought for a time he could finally get some training…sadly he was wrong. Thought it wasn't a total downer as he met them.
*Flashback — Naruto age eleven*
"Tou-san...Kaa-san?" A little Naruto called out to both his parents with a hopeful tone, which they somehow didn't notice. The two young parents stopped their current task of relaxing on the couch. The two shared looks of surprise as if they were shocked to see him, which was odd to him.
"Oh...ummm hey Naruto? What is it?" Minato asked.
Naruto was still a bit surprised by his father and mother's surprise at seeing him. Did they not have been expecting him or was it that they thought he wasn't downstairs and in his bedroom or something? He quickly shook his head free of the unnecessary thoughts before bringing up what he planned to ask them.
"Can I train with both Naruko and Nanami now?" Naruto asked, hoping that they would accept. Ever since they could learn to walk, the twins had received the lion's share of training. They received training in its entirety, but Naruto wasn't taught anything and so far, he was feeling very left out.
"Sorry Naru-chan, but we have to train the twins. Just be patient." Kushina said not knowing this was the hundredth time or had forgotten that this was the hundredth time he asked.
Naruto's eyebrow twitched in annoyance. Every single time he asked, that was the response he would get. His mother would tell him to be patient and his father would make no comment whatsoever. It was frustrating and for a six-year-old who inherited his mother's temper, it led to him finally snapping.
Naruto's anger was paramount. "WHY CAN'T YOU TEACH US ALL AT ONCE?!" Naruto snapped. "I'M ALWAYS LEFT OUT! IM THE ONE THAT NEVER GETS TO DO ANYTHING WHILE THE TWINS GET EVERYTHING! WHY?!" Hoping that they would see the error in their ways or realize they were ignoring him.
His words and hope were reduced to nothing as Kushina rose from her seat and walked up to Naruto. She reared back her hand and Naruto's eyes were wide with shock as he felt the force of his mother's slap. Her own rage came forth verbally now. "HOW DARE YOU RAISE AND SNAP YOUR VOICE AT US YOUNG MAN! WE TOLD YOU BE PATIENT YOU UNGRATEFUL BRAT! THEIR TRAINING IS VERY IMPORTANT, MORE THAN YOUR REQUEST FOR THE LOVE OF KAMI! WE PROVIDE A ROOF OVER YOUR HEADS, FOOD TO EAT AND CLOTHES TO WEAR AND YOU HAVE THE AUDACITY TO RAISE YOUR VOICE AT US?!"
"Your mother is correct, Naruto," Minato said. "The training of our daughter's training is important, much more than yours is at the moment. Now go to your room and don't come out for a month!" Minato's voice was stern but lacked the volume like his wife's. Apparently, they were both unaware of the impact their words had on their eldest child.
Naruto couldn't take it anymore and ran back to his room but was able to hear what his parents said. "Honestly, I think we may have been spoiling him too much." He heard Minato's voice.
"I agree but let's put that aside and go back with the twins I want them to learn the Uzumaki sword style and you promised them you would teach them your Rasengan." He heard Kushina's voice, having already forgotten about him judging from how happy her tone was, and even the earlier spat.
*Flashback ends*
That was the final nail on the coffin. Using the resources available to him and scavenging everything he could find, Naruto trained himself in the art of being a ninja. It was difficult, but he managed thanks to his keen mind and intellect, not to mention his sheer willpower and fortitude, this help compensate for years of neglection by his so-called parents.
Through observation of several Shinobi and Kunoichi and from the many scrolls he'd read — this lead to his discovery of him having a photographic memory — Naruto develop his own unique fighting style that he honed in the one place that most Shinobis and Kunoichi would dare not enter; training ground forty-four A.K.A the Forest of Death. Here he honed his skills in stealth, survival, and instincts first before moving on with his skills in combat. Testing his self-develop fighting style against large animal-like creature on a daily bases and refined his combat skill with each confrontation.
It was a massive mountain climb of blood, sweat, and tears…but mostly blood…and some broken limbs, that healed over time. He eventually succeeded but knew this wasn't enough. He needed to test Taijutsu against a human opponent because the most cunning animal is human beings. So at age fourteen he snuck out of the village and located a bandit camp, disguised himself in a black leatherette hooded robe outfit, that he pillage from a dumpster and modified it to suit to his likeness. The upper body of the robes featured a hood that was shaped like an eagle's beak in the center; this was connected to the main part of the robes, which were black.
It was much longer than any standard robe, as it was made up of three layers. Each later was longer than the one above it, and the longest, lower layer was segmented, giving the whole piece a look resembling an eagle's wings, with the back of the robes extending down. Around the waist was a red sash, along with a belt with back pouches containing some herbs, scabbards for throwing kunai, and a sheath for two dual connecting scythes attach to a belt, with a buckle featuring a unique symbol that he got from a book. Scabbards for arrows were contained at the left shoulder and on the right was his rather unique looking bow that had this markings and symbols carve into it, he actually found this beauty about to be burned as ninjas never used bows. You would think silent trained killers would use a silent range weapon like a bow, but apparently not.
The outfit also had metal portions around it for protection. The metal portions armor appeared to have a gold tint while the leather portion was black-brown. The chest plate of the outfit was made up several overlapping light metal guards, a metal pauldron on his right shoulder, bracers arm guard which also house both his hidden pivot blades and greaves on both his legs.
Naruto could still remember that day, as it was the day he took his second life, well if you don't count the number of monstrous. His first skill was purely self-defense as he was almost rape, he knew about the vile word from the many kinds of literature he read and how disdain it is, by a drunk male villager and Naruto killed him with a broken glass from the bottle the male villager threw at him and stab him in the heart.
*Flashback — Naruto age fourteen and POV*
It was three years today that I decided to test my personal Taijutsu on a human opponent, now I wasn't crazy or foolish to try it on a trained Shinobi or Kunoichi, so the next best thing were bandits. While I'm at it I might as well collect the bounty on these bandits, it wasn't much around only fifty-thousand Ryō, but it was enough for someone like me.
After memorizing the patrol schedule and timing of each guard shift, I managed to sneak out of the village. 'This is too easy.' Was it supposed to be this easy to sneak out? I didn't know nor did I question it, don't look a gift horse in the mouth as the saying goes. But still, though this could prove to be a major problem in the near future and I theorized that it some of the patrol guards were too lax or flat out lazy at their job.
I decided to trail a traveling caravan, as it was rumored that bandits usually attack caravans, from a safe distance up in the trees. It took three days before something finally happen and in those three days I found out that the traveling caravan is a family of five, which, of course, reminded me of my own and I even thought to myself Kami was playing some kind of sick joke, or it really was just coincidence. I didn't know and didn't look into it further, what I do know is they were completely different.
As side from the obvious of course, they looked happy and content with everything, this reflects on their children — one boy and two girls, coincident but whatever. I felt jealousy and anger rise up from deep within my heart, jealous as the boy had everything I wished to have and anger for being reminded of what I did not have.
This made me hesitant in saving them from an ambush by five bandits. On one hand, this would give me a chance to observe and analyze my opponent, giving me time to figure out a plan. On the other hand, if I do not save them, the father and son would be killed while the mother and daughter would most likely be raped and probably sold off to slavery, or kept as nothing more than pleasure toys.
They were complete strangers, so why bother saving them? And it wasn't like I was preventing anything, I was sure that even if I saved them, they would most likely be attacked again by a different group. So why should I? For morals, pshh that's useless in the ninja world. An act of kindness and it was the right thing to do, like anyone, would show and do that.
For a moment I pondered, but it was then I saw some of the items had some valuable scrolls of techniques and Jutsu, and unless my eyes were deceiving me a summoning scroll. This made my decision to save them. I Shunshin no Jutsu/Body flicker no Jutsu to a nearby tree and jump down on two bandits, stabbing the back of both their necks with my hidden blade. "Who the fuck, are you?" Bandit, who was much bulkier than the other two and was probably the leader, exclaimed angrily.
I stood up and with a low voice I said, "Why don't you come and find out." I gestured at them with a single finger. My instincts, which develop over the years thanks to my time in the forest of death by fighting large and dangerous animals, kicked in and I somersaulted backward as two additional bandits rush out from the bushes. I took my bow out and quickly planted two arrows on the two bandits head, killing them in an instant.
This shocked the other two bandits that stood on the opposite side of the Boss bandit, "Don't just stand there like pussies and kill this bastard." He ordered and shoved the two of them forward. Good, this would give me a chance to finally test my Taijutsu out. A key aspect of my style revolved around speed, power, agility, flexibility, strength, balance, and finally awareness. Develop specifically for defense, offense, and counter. The best way to describe it was controlled and timed movements, and less-is-more. And targeting the vital and pressure point of the human body.
Holding back as much power as possible behind a single strike and unleashed it at the last possible second. This is possible by anticipating and predicting enemy attack through muscle movement and chakra spikes. But moreover, I rely on my heighten senses and, more importantly, instincts in battle.
I fought, give or take, at least fifty of the most dangerous animals in the forest of death, using my Taijutsu against such beasts like a large centipede creature or a horned monkey. But I wanted to know how effective it would be against a human opponent, so these bandits would make excellent beta testers.
The first bandit rush at me, this got me to raise an eyebrow as to why they would not attack together as a group and try to overwhelm me? It is how a pack of wolves would usually attack, but then I thought, 'They are humans and are different from animals.' With that conclusion in mind, I focus on my opponent, who took out a machete and swung at me.
I dodge but still remain my grounds; he swung again in a flurry of swipes and slashes. I dodge every single one. "Stay still you fucker." He said angrily and swung again, and tried to kick my shin. It failed thanks to my leg guards.
I question his mental process, why would I stay still and allow him to decapitate me? "Are you dumb or something?" I asked in a bored tone and side-step when he thrust his weapon forward. "Why would I stand still and let you hit me? And while we are at it, are you just going to stand there and look stupid as well?" I gave the second bandit a pointing look; seriously I might have chosen the wrong guinea pigs to test my fighting style out.
Hopefully, their boss would prove a much more challenging, "Enough." I muttered and parried the first bandit next attack, and brought my fist to meet his face in a bone-breaking punch to the forehead. This sent him flying towards the second bandit and I used the momentary to deliver a devastating blow to the neck, the force of both strikes and impact were enough to kill both bandit lackeys. "Disappointing, the horned-fang monkeys I fought were much better than the two of them," I said towards their stun looking boss. "They could have attack simultaneously, but choose not to. Not like it would matter, given how poorly the first fought and the second one was slow to react, nothing like those thirty-three feet near lightning fast cobras I've hunted." I shook my head and thought back to the two animals that were more than a challenge than the two bandits.
I turn my attention to the fuming Boss bandit, "You son of a bitch, I'll fucking kill you!" He roared out, dashing at me with speeds greater than his two subordinates. But compare to the cheetah/tiger hybrid I faced — now that was an animal that was difficult to face because of its ferocity and near blurring speeds — the guys attack weren't near as fast, evidenced by how I easily dodge his combo attack, 'A berserker fighter eh?' not a good one at that.
From his stance allow I could tell the Boss bandit is a novice with an otherwise known deadly Taijutsu. The style itself revolved around overwhelming an opponent with sheer power and speed, giving little to no chance of allowing the opponent to attack or defend. Masters of this fighting style were listed in the Bingo book as approach with caution or even flee on site, and this guy here is not doing justice to a respected Taijutsu.
'Hmm maybe I could integrate the Berserker style into my own style; I'll have to look into that later.' I thought absently dodging several attacks from the Boss bandit. A bored sigh escapes my lips as I didn't get much out of fighting these bandits, so I still didn't know how effective my Taijutsu is against a human opponent. "I have enough this shit," I muttered lowly and grab the Boss bandit left hand with my right hand; he let out a blood-curdling scream as I punch his elbow causing the bones to snap in half.
"FUCK MY ARM! YOU FUCK — URK" I didn't let him finished as I elbowed his chest, breaking his ribs and damaging his internal organs. He drops down to his knees and I kick the right side of his head, probably smashing his skull judging from the imprint my foot made.
I walk towards the distraught and frighten family, "It's over, their dead now." The fathers got on his knees and thank me profoundly. "Thank you for saving us, I was afraid of what would happen if you hadn't shown up. I'm Arata, my wife Eiko and my children; my eldest son Hachiro, my two daughters Eri and Fumiko." He introduced himself and his family.
I nodded, "Nice to meet you, Arata-san."
"Wow mister you were so cool, how'd you do that," Hachiro asked in a child with child-like wonder, his two siblings nodded as well wanting to know as well. This got them a scolding from their mother, but I waved my hand stating that I did not mind, "Training, lots of training kiddo." The boy started spurting out words and I simply tune him out.
"I know we don't have much, but is there any way we could repay you," Arata asked.
I pretended to think about it and glance around, "Are you sure?" At his nod I smirk, "Well I am interested in these three scrolls; care to tell me about it." Gesturing to the three scrolls that caught my attention
Arata perked up and started explaining, "Well kind these three scrolls are rather unique. The first scroll is a complete compilation of weapon forging, ranging from daggers, swords, arrows, etc. The second scroll contains information about Hohō (fast movements), a defensive style of fighting which relates to footwork. Shunpo (flash step) is one such movement technique; this allows the user to move faster than the eye can follow. The focal point which determines the basis of this technique is speed. As speed is the main factor of the technique, the method is best classified by how fast one can get from point A to point b in the least amount of steps. Training and skill are what determines how fast the user can move, this key to using Shunpo is contained in the scroll." He stopped for a bit to catch his breath
"The last scroll is rather complicated as it has a seal on it, the guy who gave it wrote that all who tried to use this summoning scroll were never heard from again." I raised an eyebrow at that, "Then why did you buy it." I asked.
He was about to answer, but his wife cut him off, "He was drunk when he bought this blasted scroll." She stated.
I took a closer look at the Kanji on the scroll, which read Aragami (Violent God). 'Interesting,' I had overheard Jiraiya mentioning about how animal summons would place a test to determine whether or not the person is qualified to be their contractor. "I'll take all three of them," I said firmly.
Arata nodded and handed me the three scrolls, after that, I helped them fix the caravan and as soon as it was finished, the family thanks me once again before leaving. 'Today wasn't a total bust.' I thought as I walk back towards Konoha.
*Flashback ends and regular POV*
After sneaking back to Konoha the blond quickly started learning blacksmithing and Hohō, the former being straightforward and easy, while the later took a year. Shunpo is pure physical speed, this meant Naruto would first have to condition his body and he did so by wearing weight and gravity seal on his body. He walked, run, exercise, slept, etc while wearing these seals and did not remove them as he did the training regiment suggested in the scroll.
It was excruciatingly difficult for the blond as his movements were hindered and strain, combine that with fighting a large bloodthirsty creature that would like nothing more than to feast on your dead carcass and sip the marrow from your bones while defecating on your lifeless face. So needless to say Naruto forced himself to learn at the very least the basics of the technique for survival alone, which he managed to accomplish after three and a half month.
On the seven months, Naruto could safely say he was a practitioner of Shunpo, which made the blond think it was a fancy term for a beginner. It took another month with shadow clones for Naruto to integrated Hohō into his Taijutsu and his Bukijutsu (weapon Techniques), and once again test it against dangerous animals and ninjas, well Nukenin ranging from low C-rank to low B-rank. Without the inhibitor, Naruto theorizes that he could possibly take on a high B-rank to low A-rank Nin, but he wasn't about to tempt fate until he was absolutely sure.
Ranks are basically used to determine the level of power or danger of a Ninja or a technique and the danger of a mission. The level is broken up into five; E-rank being the lowest and S-rank being the second highest. It is also broken up into tier level with E-rank being the exception since this rank pertains to academy students or untrained kids, low-mid-high rank. The highest rank is SS-rank, only a select few have ever attained this rank.
This means sneaking out of the village and hunting down rogue ninja on an almost daily basis — what he needs to rest and relax, he was still human after all. With each confrontation and with each battle Naruto slowly grew stronger and refined his ninja way of fighting, and because of these experiences he matured faster, wiser, and a bit darker — he saw firsthand how cruel the world and people can be, but despite that the world still held on a small glimmer of light.
Throughout his adventure, Naruto had earned a name for himself, a title, in the Bingo book. They simply called him the Burakkuhantā (the back hunter) party due to his clothing and largely due how he hunted down bandits or rogue ninjas. He ranked around B or possible A-rank, which the blond rolled his eyes at the misconception of skill and strength, and labeled approach with caution. With a bounty of ten-to-eleven million Ryō capture alive by Iwa, Kumo, and Nadeshiko — a village composes of only Kunoichi and women, every pervert wet dreams, from what Naruto had heard. The blond defeated two of their kunoichi and choose to spare both rather than kill, since he got such a great fight and the fight itself helped him discover certain flaws in his techniques, and the limits and the toll of using Shunpo have on the body, he spammed the technique. Safe to say the blond couldn't move properly for three weeks and it was only after the fifth week when he could start running again.
That and the fact Naruto wasn't looking for a fight it just so happens he got into one, blaming his notoriety on that one. But it seems it backfired on him, slightly, as they must have reported it back to their village leader.
Naruto expected this, fame comes with a price, and, in this case, a price on his head. It is also to be noted that he didn't stick around or listen and left abruptly missing a certain important detail about the Kunoichi of Nadeshiko. But in his defense, the blond wanted to work on ironing out chinks and kinks in his fighting style. It comes with some benefit, such as your own spy network and people not bothering for fear of evisceration and decapitation on the spot.
Yeah, he was kinda trigger happy from time-to-time.
His own spy network that he gain from the people who owed him their lives, majority were traveling merchants and certain politician in position of power — not high but enough to give Naruto a worthwhile information he would need — In every corner of the Elemental nations, if something interesting were to happen the blond hunter would know.
But it wasn't all fun and sunshine for our blond hero, he'd face another challenge. Ninjutsu, the only ninja art he hasn't trained in or further pass the Kage-Bunshin. Or even medical-Ninjutsu, even though he has his Uzumaki natural healing, he'd didn't want to rely on it and become complacent with it. So the last year was half-dedicated in learning the two arts and the other half was to advance his training in Hohō.
He started by training his chakra control exercises such as leaf balancing, tree walking, and water walking. The first was easy — taking the only week to master, the second was frustrating — but it took him only a day to master, and the third was wet and annoying — it took him till the afternoon to master. All the harder with additional weights and another gravity level, and he did all this without using Kage-bunshin — sure he'll receive the experience and memories after dispersion, but he wanted to do it in his own way.
Heck, Naruto used Kage-bunshin only once, and that was with learning the basic of Shunpo. Most of his training he did so alone and when he got a handle on Shunpo he stop using shadow clone, the technique in Naruto's opinion was cannon fondler and the clone — unless added with more chakra — dispels after one hit, making it less effective and more of a distraction really rather than offensive, such as combining it with substitution technique.
Well aside from the great Log Jutsu, praise is the great Log and the majesty of it.
Now though he had his clones learn everything on Fūinjutsu or sealing art, so he acquired notes on the sealing arts from his mother. And to attend the Ninja Academy, which he got his father to sign by including it under his stacks of paperwork.
Yes, he planned on becoming a Shinobi, until it gets boring of course. Naruto had worked out a perfect routine for the clone to work with. First average grades, little-to-no social interaction, and blend in. This was for maximum shock factor for when he reveals his true skills during the Chunin exam finals, plus it helps to remain hidden and not be known as a proper ninja, or at the very least remain unpredictable. Though his clone, somehow, has this on-going rivalry and acquaintanceship with this one student — whose name still eludes the blond, in his defense, he was busy with other things.
After mastering chakra control and increasing chakra reserve, by adding another restraint seal, the blond moved to the second part of his training with Ninjutsu and first finding out what his elemental affinity is. Acquiring the special paper to determine one's affinity was easy, Naruto simply borrowed from his clan's library.
He got some surprising results, expecting only one or two elemental affinities, the paper split into four pieces indicating his primary elemental affinity is wind, then parts of the paper burned, crumbled into dust, sog, and wrinkle. This meant he has all five elements, oh shit moment right there. Of course the blond speculated and theorized why he has five elemental affinities — clearly the wind and lighting was something he inherited from his father, water and earth from his mother, and finally, the fire was common being native in the fire nation.
Not one to look a gifted horse in the month Naruto began training in basic nature transformation, concentrating on C-rank Jutsu or lesser known ones, then changing said Jutsu and making his own. This was all in preparation for when he signs the summoning contract, which he did and corrects to assume that the Aragamis did indeed have a test to prove his worth.
*Flashback — Naruto age sixteen and POV*
"Well here goes," I muttered Kuchiyose no Jutsu/Summoning Jutsu. I was engulfed in a white smoke and as soon as it fades out, I found myself surrounded with creatures comparable and a bit more frightening than the animals of Training ground forty-four. Ranging from the weird to the bizarre, my muscles tense as they surrounded me from all sides. "It seems another has come to prove his worth." Spoke a purple humanoid-female creature with two rings on her back.
"It would seem so, the question is can this one succeed? When so many have fallen and become one with the legion?" Another divine looking humanoid-female creature with what appears to be the stars or the universe tailored to her skirt? I think. Floated or hovered above me, judging me, hell they all were.
"This human smells strong at least." A large wolf-like creature spoke with a slightly gruff voice.
They continue to survey and judge me until another large humanoid-female creature, accompany by a dragon-like creature and a black liger creature with a rather frightening male human-like face. I assume she's the Boss summons, given how much power she was given off. "Interesting you're eyes speaks of great suffering, despair, and pain. But it is overshadowed by unyielding determination, will, desire, and finally, strength…what is your name child?" She asked.
I stood straight, showing no fear but showed respect, "I am Naruto."
"No last name or clan name?" I shook my head, "Not anymore and it's not like it matters now." I spoke with a slight bitterness in my tone.
"It does to us; we wish to know the kind of person who could be our contractor." The boss-summon stated. With a reluctant sigh, I told them about my past and my experience. I got some begrudging nods of respects from the other creatures, seems that I would need to earn it in combat. "Strong-willed indeed but tell me, what is that you desire the most?"
I was silent for a moment and thought about what it before speaking. "At first I wanted strength to rub it in my former parent's face that I became strong without them, but as time went on and as I grew from my adventures and experiences. It shifted, not for peace or for fame — the former is impossible given how the Ninja world is, while the lateral is useless and bothersome, to become the strongest and a legend in my own right. If I have to stand alone on top of the mountain to obtain my wish, I shall. I am not unfamiliar with loneliness, I have lived with it for the vast majority of my life." I stated firmly.
Silence reign and if someone were to drop a pin they would most likely hear it, until. "Truly you are a particular human. Whether or not this is good is yet to be seen, that is if you succeed the trial." She replied.
"Thank you, umm…" I trailed off.
"Sekai Wo Hiraku Mono," She introduced herself.
'Person who opens the world, huh,' I'll ponder her name later on, now, though, I have a trial to pass.
A Black dragon-like creature with red horns suddenly jumped down and greeted me with a mighty roar. "Fight me human, I shall test your worth and your conviction to become the strongest," It growled out in a deep and gruff voice as it stood on both legs.
"This is the first time Fantomu has taken an interest in a human," I heard a creature similar to, now identify, Fantomu and this one sounded feminine rather than its dark-colored counterpart.
"So be it." I sized up my opponent noting anything and everything I can that would give me an idea of what kind of creature I was facing and the possible way to defeat it. 'Okay from what I can tell this creature in front of me is a dragon-like hybrid. So if the things I've read regarding dragons are true then I need to strike the soft spot on its neck, torso, legs, and arms. Avoid its claws, fire attack, tail, and mouth. Judging from his body he's a speed and power oriented, my Taijutsu won't be as effective as my Bukijutsu, Ninjutsu, and Hohō,' my mind running a thousand-mile per hour to figure out a concrete plan to defeat this beast of a creature.
'Range, I'll figure out its attack some of his patterns with my range attack. Soften him up with a couple of lightning, water, and earth Jutsu. If he gets close I'll meet him with a wind-enhanced scythe.' I thought up and jump back, giving myself a good distance away from Fantomu. I fired off a volley of wind enhance arrow, to increase the speed and cutting power, which he blocks with his arm-like guards and fired two black flame-like orbs.
I narrowly dodge both before I notice that Fantomu was in front of me. 'Shit he's fast,' I cursed and dodge a flurry of quick swipes. Once an opening presented itself, I switch to my scythe and began my own attack. It was an advantageous weapon and it fits my style of fighting, quick and precise, and it could be connected to make one long scythe thus giving me a wide variety of combos and mid-range attacks.
I swung down, anticipating that he would dodge, and caught him with my second swipe making him hiss out in pain. Quickly I spun in a one-eighth double slash, but he managed to dodge just as when my blade was about to meet his torso.
Taking this momentary separation for a Jutsu, going through the necessary hand seal.
Raiton: Shichū Shibari/Lightning Release: Four Pillar Bind. Four giant rock pillars formed around the black dragon-like hybrid, which shoot bolts of lightning between them. This stun momentarily Fantomu and I quickly followed my Jutsu with a single tiger hand-seal Suiton: Teppōdama/Water Release: Gunshot. Kneading chakra in my stomach, and converting it into the water, I spit out a high-speed condense water ball.
Fantomu roared out in pain but still stood standing. "Good, I thought this would end quickly, but I'm glad that I was wrong." He began hovering in mid-air as flames began surrounding the black dragon and whatever he was trying to I had to stop it. Bringing out the bow I fired another volley of wind arrows with the tip laced with lightning. 'Fuck,' I cursed as my arrows did nothing but burn upon making contact.
I quickly use my water Jutsu, but it evaporated as soon as Fantomu release a black fire-like tornado. A jet black energy-like blade formed from his claws as he leaps towards me, I manage to narrowly dodge his attack but was sent flying backward to a nearby wall by a vicious tail whip. 'Good thing the armor took most of the damage or I'll be looking at a couple of broken ribs, but fuck like hell.' I was still in this in the fight; I just need to evaluate what I got so far.
'Lightning seems to affect him, so I'll use most of the lighting Jutsu I know. He can fire off orb-like projectiles, summon a tornado of flames, and form energy blades. So far I can still keep with his speed, but I feel he's holding back. Heh, this just got a bit more challenging.' I mentally grin, finally an opponent to measure how strong I've become, and it seems Fantomu pick up on my grin, as he grins back — probably has the same thoughts as I have.
'First distraction'
Doton: Doro ōkami/Earth Release: Mud wolves. Five brown-colored wolves formed and charge at with blazing speeds, distracting and keeping the black dragon in place.
'Second trap'
I fired off three special extendable arrows at three different sides. Raiton: Kaminari Shibari/ Lightning Release: Thunder Binding. A triangular wall of electricity trapping the black dragon in a tight space.
'Finally combination'
I summon two shadow clones and both jump into the air and quickly made a hand seal, Suiton: Mizurappa/Water Release: Water Trumpet. The first clone launches a large jet of water from the mouth through the hand; this gave the appearance of playing the trumpet, henceforth the name. Raiton: Jibashi/Lightning Release: Electromagnetic Murder. The second clone sent waves of electricity from its hands. The two Jutsu merge and collided with the black dragon, making it roar in agony.
I huff slightly, trying to calm down my breathing. 'This is a first I used four Jutsu at once and the shadow clone, I can hope that…' My thoughts were cut off when a stream of black energy surge and thunder binding technique was destroyed. Fantomu hovered and six energy like winds appeared on its back. 'Shit, he's pissed off.' I thought and fired another volley of arrows.
But the black dragon merely brushed it off with his jet-black energy blades, ROAAR! The beast charged at me and I narrowly dodge his aggressive slashes, 'shit his speed has increased.' I summoned two shadow clones to distract it a moment while I unseal a layer of my restriction seals, just so I can keep up with him. 'I have to time this if I miss…well I'm as good as dead.' I grimace.
"COME LET US END THIS!" I roared out and cried out a battle cry. I sidestep to the right, then to the left, and duck down each strike, and inch closer to my foe. With my connected scythe, I thrust forward the back end of my weapon, coating it with lightning chakra, but he managed to block it. "Ghhack!" I jump back and place my left hand on my chest, his attack manage to damage my armor to the point of uselessness, the upside I didn't have a gaping slash mark on my chest.
He charged at me again and this time I was ready. I dodge between his blades and stab his left arm and flip over his behind and x-slash his lower backside. I once again just narrowly dodge his tail. Fantomu spun around and fired a large flame-orb, knowing that I couldn't dodge the flaming orb, I channeled my water chakra outward — creating a sort of water armor — to take the front of the attack. "FUCK!" cursed loudly suffered second-degree burns, but otherwise fine.
I quickly made a single hand seal to activate my medic-Fūinjutsu seal, which does as the name implies. Acts like a sort of medic by using a variant of the Shōsen Jutsu/Mystical Palm Technique. The seal uses my chakra to speed up my body's natural healing process, but the process will take time and chakra, the former is something I don't have, to fully heal my body and I can still be damage adding to the time needed to heal, and still be killed if not careful.
'There,' As Fantomu sprinted at me I suddenly Shunpo in front of him and manage to stab him with my scythe, but he soon recovered and brought both energy blades to decapitate me. Realizing the danger I channeled my wind chakra to my feet and manage to avoid the attack, but not without taking damage. "AHH!" I screamed and hiss out in pain feeling an immense stinging sensation on my chest area.
I stagger and huff as blood began leaking out from the x-shape wound, 'I need to end this now!' I channeled all my remaining strength into one last attack, reverse gripping my left lightning enhance scythe and Shunpo, "IT'S OVER!" I shouted, unknowingly materialize my chakra causing a massive burst of pure energy to shoot out of my body and slash down diagonally from his right shoulder to his left torso.
Seeing that he wasn't going down, I grab the hilt of my other scythe and removed with a harsh pull, causing blood to spray out, and then quickly connected the two. He brought his energy-swords down and I brought my scythe upward, determined to end this in one cut.
"ENOUGH!" Sekai ordered just as either of our attacks was about to make contact, it was about given or take an inch.
We retraced our attacks and I had to take a second to calm myself, this when I notice the pool of energy flowing out of my body. 'This chakra, there is no mistaking it…the Kyūbi's chakra.' I knew because I had observed both my sisters used this foul, yet powerful, chakra when they first tried to train with it. Sufficient to say they failed and were bedridden for a month because of coil damage. I speculated that I must have inherited it from my own mother when she was used to containing the fox and at the time of conception some of the beast's chakra must have sip through and enter my system.
But it seems different; the color for starters was dark violet rather than reddish orange. 'Could it have fused with my own chakra during my birth cycle?' I thought to myself and thought back, I did notice that my own chakra color had a hint of purple. To confirm my suspicion, I channeled some of my chakras into my palm and to my surprise, the color was no longer blue! But a mixture of raven black and a tint blood red color. "This is impossible…how?" I muttered.
"You are wondering how?" I looked up towards the humanoid-female with the skirt.
I nodded. "Yes umm…" trailing off.
"Nyx, you may call me Nyx." She introduced with a slight bow and hovered down in front of me. "We've sensed that you have a Bijū's chakra within you, yes we know about the nine tailed beasts, making you a pseudo-Jinchūriki. Though due to the potency of our realm caused your chakra and the beast's, most likely Kyūbi's from what we sensed, chakra to meld and fused together thus making you a pseudo-Bijū. But don't worry you won't be sprouting out tails or anything." She explained and gently rubs my whiskers, this made me purred out.
I pulled back and look away in slight embarrassment, I heard an amused giggle from her. "That and you were subconsciously absorbing the energy of our realm around you causing the melding and fusing process, tell us are you training to be a sage," She asked.
I shook my head in a no, "Hmm then you must have the ability to absorb chakra." She concluded and turn towards Sekai, "I believe we've found our first contractor, don't you believe so?"
"It would seem so, but tell us. Why do you fight Naruto? You've told us of your desire, but not why you fight?" Sekai asked as she towered in front of me.
"You asked me why I fight. Do I really need a reason to fight? I fight because that is all I've ever done with my life, I fought to survive, I fought to earn my power, and I fight because I want to fight!" I roared out.
Once again silence reign supreme, unmatched and unquestioned…until "BWHAHAHA! I was right to choose to fight you, haha. You are indeed different; so long as you have that spunk of yours I have no qualms about you being our contract holder." Fantomu roared out while laughing, it seems that his wound is not bothering him in the slightest.
Speaking of pain, once the adrenalin subsided I let out a hiss of pain. 'I'm feeling this tomorrow…great.' I thought sarcastically, my only relieve was the seal was working to heal my wounds, but annoying as it was sucking me dry…fuck that innuendo.
The other Aragami creatures roared in agreement. "Then it is decided. From this forth you Naruto shall be our contractor and to show our trust, I present to you a weapon." There was a sudden flash of light and when it died down both my scythe were changing into this monstrous looking weapon, one was black in color and had this menacing demonic face with dark yellow glowing eyes, the other was this pale blue and had a diamond shape mask on it. "These are Black Demise and Lifebane; both are unique scythe similar in function as your original one, with matching ability to steal health upon making contact, the only difference is Black Demise grants you extra strength in battle with Black Hearth by absorbing a person's energy, while Lifebane can slowly freeze a person solid upon contact. But both weapons is not without its downside; Black Demise will negate your body's natural healing ability and Lifebane health steal is only a small portion of the ice damage it deals is returned to you, once it freezes a person it will continue to drain health till the target is dead. You can compensate for this by afflicting freeze to multiple opponents, as the more targets you freeze, the more health you can steal that would heal any wounds, both weapons can heal any fatal wounds with life steal. And since both weapons are bounded to you and you alone, you can control with your mind but the distance is limited," Sekai explained.
I nodded understanding my new weapon's mechanics. Both weapons have its ups and downs, but I can improve on that. 'I'll make a seal that would switch from my original scythe to these two.' It was a simple seal that I manage to master. It was originally meant to be a new type of storage scroll by switching the current item with another similar to it; like say a nearly broken kunai, the user needs only to activate the seal and in an instant will switch to a brand new one. "Thank you for the gift and accepting me as your contractor." I bow showing my respect.
"You've earned it, oh and seeing as Fantomu here is the one that tested you, he'll be your personal summon."
I glance towards said Aragami, "So partners?" He fang grin, "Partners," He said.
*Flashback ends and regular POV*
It was two years today when Naruto had gained a new weapon, new allies, and a strong sparring partner. He bonded and further refined his skills over the last years of his training with the Aragami, learning the different types of species — Such as his partner being a rare Corrosive Hannibal type — and their compensation or payment for being called upon. Some were straightforward and ask for a good fight as payment, well the more vicious ones, but the majority required food.
The Aragami will eat anything from a forest, rocks, animals, buildings — as he found out after calling upon an Ogretail for a ride on a hunting mission — regular human food, and people — well people I kill and had more value when dead rather than being alive. He had also learned that the Aragami was broken up into a faction with their own leader, under Sekai of course. Like Nyx being the leader of the Siren class Aragami.
He grew close to his summons and they intern became close to him and soon that bond became aching to familial bond. The Aragami became the family he always wanted; Sekai being the mother he never had and she viewed him as her own youngling, Nyx and Tsukuyomi viewed him as their little brother and would fuss over him, and Fantomu shared a true older-to-younger brotherly bond with him. The rest were either like an uncle, aunt, or little siblings for him.
Also, Naruto had gotten, or made a new outfit; since he's old one was shredded. It still retains its original design with the changes of color was now gray, the lower portion is singled layered with the back of the robe extending down lower than the front. The added spaulders, single chest guards, and the change in armor color scheme to dark gold.
Other things Naruto did over the last years of his training were mastering his new and potent chakra. He discovered that his body had a change, to adapt to his new chakra with some benefits, a lot actually. Among those benefits are enhance speed, strength, senses, and reflexes. His features were also different, he gained a more feral and slightly wild look — but in a good way, his whiskers marks were more defined, slit pupils and midnight blue eyes. He was slightly taller than his age suggested, nails sharpen appearing claw-like, and his muscle was also more defined, chiseled even. Thankfully he didn't grow any tails or any other mutation.
Yeah, he, of course, got over the shock of becoming a pseudo-Bijū after a sit down with Sekai. She pointed out that he was never considered human on the first place by the very people his father protected and pointing out the benefits of being more than human, like near-limitless stamina, an almost endless pool of chakra, possibly near-immortality — it was speculated that he would stop aging or his aging process would further slowdown, that or in the event he were to die or somehow get killed he would just reform, but Naruto wasn't about to test that theory — and potent chakra, if someone were to say try to absorb any of his chakra they'll die a horrible, melting death. This was because Naruto's chakra is acidic in nature and would harm anyone, besides himself of course.
And thanks to the near-endless pool of chakra Naruto was able to create chakra weapon constructs; an example is the infamous Uzumaki chakra chains. But unlike the original, Naruto's version is different. One such difference that if here to construct chains he would need to know the composition, weight, hardness, and durability — same goes for weapons, though he would need to know the thinness of the blade and how well it can cut, which he can strengthen depending on the amount of chakra used in its creation.
Yeah it kinda sucks that he wasn't fully human anymore, but Sekai was right, he never felt like he belong or the people of Konoha made him feel like he didn't belong — sure now he could take insults and brushed it off, but his child-mind as vulnerable and he had to mature faster just to survive the verbal beat down. So buckle up and move forward, that is also what he did for the entirety of his life is keep moving forward.
As all one can really do is keep moving forward, forward to the future.
'Time to leave,' Naruto jump down from his perch position and left the clan house, and made his way to the village gates. He had heard of a syndicate group near the borderline between the Land of Wind and the Land of Rivers. This group had a rather hefty reward on their heads and the blonds determine to collect the reward money, it was mainly due to the group attacking supply caravans, the deaths of important delegates, pillaging, and raids on small villages around the border.
Once Naruto was at far proximity from the village he went into a series of hand seals Kuchiyose no Jutsu/Summoning Jutsu. A gold colored Vajartail appeared, "Naruto-sama," the gold colored Aragami greeted with a small bow of respect.
"Aki, I need a ride to the borderline between the wind and river." The Aragami now identify as Aki nodded and Naruto hop on its back, "Here's a treat in advance." Aki happily accepted the dango, finding the taste of sweets quite delightful.
"Thank you Naruto-sama, also I'm here to inform you that Nyx-sama and Tsukuyomi-sama wish for Naruto-sama's attendants, or they'll have you reverse summoned themselves." She stated, then happily munching down on the sweet treat.
Naruto nodded and shivered slightly recalling the brutal training/torture he had endured. "Y-yeah I'll visit the mission." And with that, they left.
—END—
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