999 Kyuubi/The Masashi Fusion Tale
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A loud noise rang. "GAH!" A boy shouted and smashed the source of the sound, an alarm clock. "Huh…? Wha… oh yeah… School…Nu…" The boy mumbled still sleepy, today the boy was going to start at the Ninja Academy. The Boy had blond unruly hair pointing into every direction. The boy's eyes were cerulean blue. The boy stood up from his worn futon bed and walked to a sink, the boy turned on the cold water and splashed his face with it, "Ah, cold water!" The boy, named Uzumaki Naruto said while he shook his hair dry. "Okay, what clothes?" Naruto thought aloud and walked to an old closet and opened it, it was filled with Orange pants and black and gray T-shirts, "Hmm…this one looks good…" Naruto said and picked a random pair of clothes and put it on.
"Okay, breakfast and I'm off." Naruto said and walked to a small kitchen and opened a closet filled with… Cup Ramen. The orange wearing boy took one and walked to an old microwave oven and prepared the ramen and ate it in four minutes. After that the boy left the apartment running towards the academy Jiichan, an old man who was always kind to him, had showed to him. On the way a lot of people looked at him with dislike and contempt, though the child knew not what those looks meant, nor why they were given to him. Nonetheless the boy had always a smile on his face, and a cheery attitude bright enough to give life to an entire galaxy. Naruto ran with his short feet towards the academy when he tripped, not by accident, he knew as a man next to him had a smirk on his face. "Hey! Why'd you do that?" Naruto asked from the smirking man who simply looked at Naruto, and kicked him in the head making Naruto fall over. "Becuz I felt like it you shit." The man said and walked away. Naruto stood up and wiped away the blood from his forehead, as a wound had come from the kick, luckily the wound had already closed up. "Meany!" Naruto shouted and continued to run towards the academy, however to Naruto's bad luck the earlier process was repeated many times, a few times a lady might slap him in stead or instead of tripping him they might stand in his way not letting him pass. Naruto arrived at the academy just in time to see all the children enter and all their parents wave them off and wish things like; "Have a nice day and do your best!" and "Listen to what you're teachers tell you and do your best!". Naruto ignored all this and ran inside looking for the classroom he was supposed to be in, however when he arrived where the door was supposed to be at there was nothing but a wall there, so Naruto continued his search for the classroom not noticing the two adults talking to each other.
"What did you do?" One of them asked. "Oh nothing, just protecting my son…" the other one said. "Huh?" the first one asked. "I put a Genjutsu making it seem the door to the class is a wall…" the second one said. "Oh, good job, I hope the demon gets lost and doesn't find his way to class today." The first man said and walked away laughing. "Yeah!" The second one said and followed laughing as well. Naruto on the other hand was still looking around for the class room. "Huh? 107? My class is 49 meaning it's that way… but I came from there…" Naruto said and walked back to where he had come from earlier. After a few minutes of investigating he noticed his class where it should be, yet it wasn't there. "But…" Naruto said and touched the wall where he clearly remembered that a door had been. As soon as his hand touched the wall and applied some weight on it, it gave after and he fall through the wall, or more like the door opened. "Uzumaki Naruto?" A voice asked, it was a man looking at a paper in his hand. "Uh yes?" Naruto asked unsure if he had done something wrong. "What are you doing there, stop being an idiot and walk to you're sitting place!" The man, presumably his teacher shouted clearly irritated about something. "Right!" Naruto shouted and stood up dusting himself and walked to and empty seat and sat down. "So is this what's going to change my life for forever?" Naruto thought hopefully, remembering Jiichan's speech about how Academy would change his life. Naruto smiled and prepared for a new life to come.
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The day passed fairly well, nobody gave him hateful glares and he had fun, first they played a few name games to make everybody familiar with each other and then they talked about what they thought a Shinobi was, overall it was nice day. Now Naruto was walking home, and like you might guess it was the same like the morning though much more frequent as more people were on the streets now than on the morning. Naruto was feeling pretty tired so he decided to go into a shaded ally between two houses to take a rest from those 'meanies'. "Could I afford some ramen at Ichiraku today…?" Naruto thought and opened his wallet and looked at his money. "Enough for one bowl…" Naruto thought with a happy and relieved sigh as he leaned back against the wall. "Man! Nobody respects me…" A male voice reached Naruto's ears, making Naruto perk up. "That's cuz you're an idiot incapable of doing anything right." Another male voice said to the first.
"Oh whatever, you shut up." The first voice said back irritated. "Man I wish I was Hokage or something, and then everybody would respect me…" The first male said dreamily. "You, Hokage? You wish! Even if you made Hokage, nobody would respect a Hokage who almost got killed on a D-rank mission." The second voice said tauntingly while laughing. "S-shut up!" the first male said somewhat angrily. "Become…Hokage? So everybody would respect me?" Naruto thought about it, everybody would greet him with a happy smile and not be so mean to him, it would be like a heaven. "Well if we're going to be talking about becoming Hokage why won't you as well conquer the world?" The second male said mockingly, though as Naruto is not old enough to understand it, he takes it seriously.
"If I cone-conquer the world, will everybody respect me?" Naruto thought not hearing the rest of the conversation. "I'm going to conquer the world!" Naruto shouted determined as he stood up and clenched his fist. As he stood up his stomach growled, "Oh, right! Food!" Naruto shouted and bolted off with new found determination. At the ramen stand Naruto sat down and cheerfully exclaimed: "Gimme a miso ramen Old man!" "Sure thing Naruto, one miso ramen, coming right up." Teuchi, the owner or Ichiraku ramen, was one of the few people nice to Naruto along with his daughter, Ayame, who worked with him in the ramen stall. "Hey Old man, what does conquer mean? Nu…" Naruto asked slurping at his ramen. "Conquer? Well when you… well… if another ninja village attacked us and beat us, after which they would control over us than they would have conquered us…" Teuchi said looking at the boy, "Where did you here that word in the first case? It's not normal for someone you're age to know that word…" Teuchi asked looking at Naruto perk up. "Oh, I heard two people talk about how they would conquer the world…" Naruto said and swallowed some noodles. "Well you shouldn't listen to people like that, they're just some punks thinking they're somebody, if one should conquer the world they'd need unrivaled power and cunningness beyond imagination." Teuchi said hoping to discourage Naruto but only succeeding to fuel his determination even more. "Well see you later old man!" Naruto said after eating and leaving some money on the table. "See you again Naruto!" Teuchi shouted after him with a wave. Naruto walked slowly home as the sun began lowering and the moon rising. "So conquering the world means to beat everyone in the world…" Naruto thought aloud as he walked the already empty streets of Konoha. Naruto looked at the stars, "That means I have to be the strongest and the smartest person ever." Naruto said and clenched his fist and raised it to his eye level.
"Can I do it?" Naruto said and clenched his fist even harder so his knuckles became white. "Only one way to find out." Naruto said with a grin growing on his young face, he looked down from the stars back to the street. "Oh right! Home!" Naruto said as he began running home. Tomorrow he was going to be the best and strongest, and then, he was going to beat the world.
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Time skip: Naruto age 12
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A Figure is running in a forest, followed by several others. The first figure has been running for hours trying to lose the people following but is forced to stop as the forest suddenly ends to a high cliff, with a river flowing dangerously far away bellow, if the person jumped, the chances of survival would be low, but if the pursuers caught her, she would be dead for sure.
"What should I do…?" The girl, a very pretty one for that with long blonde hair flowing freely behind her reaching her heels, and wearing a green delicate dress with many incarnate golden markings on it, and a Azure stone shaped like a drop of water around her neck in a fine chain made out of silver. Her eyes a light green deep enough for anyone to lose themselves in them, but now they were frantically looking for a way to escape, there was another cliff at the other side of the river, but it was to far away for her to jump to, and knowing her pursuers they could easily jump over it. "There you are…trying to run away are you wench?" A man who jumped in front of the girl said, the man was ugly, to say the least, he had several scars on his face and he looked like he got beaten up regularly. "Yeah, what are you trying bitch? We had to run because of you… so we might as well take some relief out of your body…" A second man said wearing a body suit seemingly made out of several leather straps. "No…" The girl said backing a step back but stopped as her foot came to the edge of the cliff, "There's nowhere to run wench…" one of them said as he took a step closer to her. "No! S-stay back…!" the girl said and slowly turned around. "O-or I-I will jump…" The girl said and looked down to the fast flowing river, she would surely die from a fall from this height. "Oh, will you now? Bitch…" The other man said and took a step closer to her as well. "Y-yes…" The girl said and seemingly prepared to jump. "What do we do Aniki? The bitch says she's going to jump." One of the men said with little interest in his voice. "Well the boss said, bring her back or kill her." The other man said grinning like a mad man. The girl swallows and prepares to really jump, she had been bluffing but these men… she had to jump… She took a step back and prepared to die. "Hohooo… she's serious…" the man with leather straps said laughing. The girl took a deep breath and opened her arms, and leaned back, and fell…
The girl with long blond hair fell, she closed her eyes and prepared for the impact with the river flowing under her rapidly coming closer, and then she felt something catch her, and then the wind changed from blowing from underneath to blow from above her, as If she was moving upwards she slowly opened her eyes and saw the handsome figure of a blond man with whisker like scars on his cheeks. "Don't worry miss, you are safe now, for I, Uzumaki Naruto, am here now to save you." The blond man said with a smile. "Oh, Naruto-sama, I thank you for saving me…" The girl said and held to Naruto lovingly from her bridal position. "Who're you? Give us the wench!" A man said looking at the form of Naruto, Naruto was tall and had a golden cape around him flowing in the wind as well as black armored pants and combat boots. "Silence, I will not allow you to call a lady with a rude name like that!" Naruto exclaimed and flickered his hand making the two men fly away as if an invisible force had hit them. The girl looked up to the blonde man with sparkle's in her eyes, "Naruto-sama… I love y-"
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RIIINNGG!!!!! An extremely loud noise sounded. "Gah! Fuck you!" Naruto shouted and smashed the damned machine called an alarm clock. "What a weird dream…" Naruto said and shook his head, first of all; why would he talk like one of those people with sticks up their asses…and second of all why would he save some girl like that, she looked like some snob. "Whatever…" Naruto said and jumped up and picked up his orange pants and put them on. Next he put on his black T-shirt and his orange jacket with too long sleeves that had been folded. "Alright, some breakfast and I'm off." Naruto said and walked to his kitchen and made some ramen and ate it in a few minutes. After that he took his sandals. After that he left his apartment and ran off toward the academy, as a man tried to trip him Naruto jumped over the foot and kicked the man fairly lightly on his forehead. "Gah! Why you!" The man shouted flipping off the finger, like every day. Naruto turned around and ran backwards while flipping off the finger himself with a grin. "Hahaha! You can't even touch me!" Naruto shouted and turned around to continue running when suddenly a couple of shuriken flew of towards him, Naruto saw them coming and ducked the first wave and twisted himself so that none of the second wave touched him. As Naruto landed he threw a kunai with two strings attached, one string had a flash bomb attached, and the other had a smoke bomb. As the kunai flew where the shuriken had come from there was a light and a boom followed by curses.
"Hahaha! You guys suck!" Naruto shouted and continued running. He soon arrived at the academy where he saw nobody around, "Damn, I must be early…" Naruto said but shrugged after. "Might as well train…" Naruto said and walked to a fence and jumped over it and landed on the academy training grounds filled with different sorts of logs and bags hanging by strings. Naruto had been going for quite some time in the academy already, a few weeks ago he had failed the test to become a Genin the third time, and all his other friends had passed, while he was forced to join a younger group. Well not that he really had friends… he had three people he cared about: Jiji, Ayame-ane and Teuchi-old man, the guys at his previous class had been sometimes nice to him but mostly were like everybody else, there had been once a teacher with a scar across the bridge of his nose, the teacher had been nice to him for a while, until Naruto told him about his dream of conquering the world, the teacher had at that moment gone pale and left the room, the next day the teacher had been like before: like everybody else.
Naruto walked to a log and began doing a basic combo on it, kick to the knee, punch to the face, half closed palm punch to the throat finished by a round house kick to the head. Naruto continued doing this until he began hearing sounds of kids talking and playing around on the other side of the fence. "Hmm, I guess class is starting soon, it's just a fucking waste of time but Jiji said that if I don't participate he'll stop giving me allowance and that would be a pain…" Naruto said cursing as he jumped over the fence joining his Class mates. "Naruto!" A high pitched shout carried over all the other noises making Naruto perk slightly. "You were in the training fields again weren't you?!" A girl, shouted though not as loud as before. The girl was wearing a standard Kunoichi suit and had green hair in a ponytail. "Uh…no…" Naruto lied with sarcasm dripping from his voice. "You know very well it is forbidden to be there without an instructor watching over you, you could get hurt and that will look bad for the academy." The girl said scolding. "You have no idea… if I got hurt the teachers would throw a party…" Naruto said with little interest over the girl, she was called Hikari and she was basically a teachers pet and the strongest and most talented according to the teachers, get the hint? "What? Now that's stupid. Now promise you won't ever again do it." Hikari said hoping she could get Naruto in her leash, yes not only was she a teachers pet but she was also a manipulative little girl who had dirt on everybody. "I promise never to get caught again…" Naruto said with his right arm lifted above his heart and all. "Good, now… Hey! That's not what I meant!" Hikari said looking at Naruto shrug, "And?" Naruto asked looking back at the crazy girl with little interest.
"Urgh! Whatever! Uzumaki, you better not get in my way. Got it?" Hikari said and was about to walk away but Naruto stood in her way. "…are you stupid or deaf?" Hikari asked looking at Naruto; she lifted her finger at his face and warned him. "My dad is a friend of the teacher, if I want to, my father could have you're life ruined…" Hikari said warning Naruto. "Oh? I see, well excuse me your royal Bitchiness…" Naruto said and stepped aside and bowed to Hikari. "…Argh, you are so stupid!" She shouted and walked off leaving a laughing Naruto behind. "Idiot…" Naruto laughed and walked in as his class was about to start. He walked to his class room and sat down in the highest row in the seat furthest away from the teacher, slowly more people began coming in and sitting down, as the lesson began the teacher, a silver haired teacher called Chibo who seemed to dislike more than most people. Chibo had recently replaced their last teacher, Mizuki who had apparently tried to betray the village by stealing a very important scroll by tricking some dumb-ass to sneak in and take the blame, however another Chuunin had stopped the plans and cleared the charges placed on the dumb-ass. Chibo handed a paper to Hikari, who had like always managed to become the teachers favorite. "Class, stand up!" she said in a clear and high voice making everybody but Naruto stand up, Naruto got away from being noticed as he was behind rows of people. "Class, greet!" She said again. "Good morning Chibo-sensei…" the class chorused and again Naruto did not. "Class, sit." She said and the class followed suit. "I'm starting the name calling now…" Hikari said and began saying names with a "Here" or a "Yeah" Coming to every Name.
The lesson went pretty normal, Chibo talked about the first Shinobi war along with the background politics leading to it, Naruto was listening half interested about how a stupid Son of a Mizukage went to Kumogakure boasting about his abilities and got himself killed and the Mizukage though he hated his son was looking for away out from a bribe/sex scandal that had to do with some shaved donkeys along with several questionable Raiton Jutsus so he declared war on Kumo, soon Kumo made an alliance with Ame and Kiri allied them selves with Tsuchi, and as The war began, Tsuchi accidentally, though this has been debated on, killed a Konoha team on a mission involving Konoha in the war, soon Suna made a pre-emptive strike against Tsuchi as they feared the power of the Tsuchikage, and in a week there was a war. Naruto could only laugh at the stupidity of old men. "Okay, fifteen minute break and then we have Taijutsu at the Academy grounds." Chibo said. The students began leaving the class through the door so Naruto decided to use the window, as he jumped out he heard a scream sounding oddly familiar, like Hikari so he decide to run for cover so she wouldn't catch and scold him. As he took cover behind a tree he heard: "Naruto no baka! Get back here! You are not allowed to jump out of the window!" Hikari shouted looking down the second floor hoping to find Naruto as Naruto shrugged and left for the Academy grounds, he jumped over the fence like earlier and began training again. He got a good fifteen minutes of training before the rest of the class arrived through the gate that Chibo had unlocked. "Na-ru-to!!" Hikari began, "Naruto, what are you doing here already?" Chibo asked. Naruto looked back at the log he had been kicking and kicked it again, only this time with his full strength shattering it.
"Training." Naruto said and looked at Chibo bored. "sigh you…" Chibo looked ready to explode. "As punishment run around Konoha three times and then come back here." Chibo said controlling his temper, three times around was a pretty harsh punishment in the academy but to Naruto is was nothing, he wasn't called the Stamina Freak for nothing, or Prank Master for that either. "Yes sensei!" Naruto said and began running for the Konoha gates, knowing that the entire Academy grounds was going to smell like hell inside a sailors boot in about three minutes… True to his guess there were several screams and a "Naruto!!!" Heard across the village hidden in the leaves.
"That'll teach 'em about telling me what to do." Naruto said grinning as he jogged along side the wall going around Konoha. A few minutes later and the laps finished Naruto returned to the academy grounds to see a fuming Chibo standing there with his arms crossed. "Uzumaki Naruto…Ninjutsu; god awful. Genjutsu; don't even let me get started. Taijutsu, nonexistent, you simply brawl you're way around... respect for authority? No you probably don't have that either. Now tell me, how do you plan to graduate with these records, nobody would like to work with you." Chibo said scolding while looking at the innocent looking Naruto. "Why don't you set a goal for yourself, like become Hokage or something… at least stop destroying other students possibilities of becoming something." Chibo said with an angry look at the half blond. "Destroy their possibilities? Hah! Those whiney-ass pussies are gonna get killed on their first mission!" Naruto shouted defiantly while laughing. Chibo sighed, and suddenly he bounced at Naruto with a kunai drawn intending to cut Naruto. Naruto blocked it with relative ease with a kunai he had whipped out from his sleeve.
"Ha? What are you doing Chibo-sensei? Teachers are not allowed to assault students." Naruto said mockingly as he pushed Chibo back and threw him back a few meters. "You are strong, that you are demon." Chibo said with a mad gleam, "For so long I've waited for an opportunity to kill you, and finally its here…" Chibo said and drew another Kunai into his other hand. "I won't let you harm the other students anymore…" Chibo said madly. "How about we make a deal? If I win, I get to graduate, if you win you can kick me out of the academy?" Naruto said hoping to get out of the hell hole known as the academy. "No that won't be necessary…as I am going to kill you now!" Chibo shouted and jumped up into the air and threw the kunai and began doing the seals for Katon: Goukakyuu no Jutsu, or otherwise known as the Great fireball technique(I know some say this is a Uchiha only technique but bear with me, in the anime some non Uchiha chuunins use it. Unless Itachi really fuckt it up.). Naruto deflected the kunai with ease and watched Chibo do the seals and movements, memorizing everything, as any Jutsu a Chuunin used could be very useful. Chibo drew a deep breath and exhaled a large ball of fire that moved rapidly towards Naruto, Naruto flinched but gathered his thoughts quickly and jumped out of the way, Chibo was waiting and threw a volley of shuriken at Naruto. "Shit!" Naruto shouted and got hit by several, Chibo walked closer and looked at the bleeding limbs of Naruto that Naruto had used to shield himself. "Haha…looks like I win…" Chibo said and got ready to do a final stab when Naruto puffed in a cloud of smoke into a log. "What? Kawarimi…!" Chibo seethed angrily, Naruto, who was in a tree hiding, grinned. "Chibo-sensei, you forgot one important aspect of being a ninja…tools." Naruto whispered and pulled a string, causing the ground underneath Chibo to rise and reveal to be net, with Chibo in it. "WHIO!" Chibo cut the net with a kunai and landed with a soft thud, with in mind even more ways to torture Naruto, however as he turned around to look to his left Naruto foot smashed into his chin making his jaw bone almost shatter. Before Chibo could recover Naruto hit him with an axe kick on his shoulder making Chibo fall over in pain as his shoulder got dislocated. Naruto looked at the form of his beaten sensei. "If were done here I'm going now, I got some training to do." Naruto said and walked away from the whimpering form of Chibo holding onto his shoulder.
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Naruto left the academy grounds and walked to the forest so he could train on that Move Chibo did earlier, True, he sucked on all of his current Jutsu but they were useless anyway, Bunshin; A mirage of yourself, yeah that would be so useful in a fight, transformation, Well he had mastered that one. Well Kawarimi was good to lure an opponent in towards you. But that fire thing was so awesome, if he mastered that he would be so much stronger than before. Naruto tried to remember the seals as he sat down in a clearing in the forest outside of Konoha. "Serpent, Tiger, Monkey, Boar, Horse and Tiger. At the first four Chibo seemed to concentrate on gathering Chakra, to the lungs I guess as he breathed fire. At the Horse seal he began inhaling as much air as possible and then finally after the tiger seal he breathed fire. Alrighty, I'm gonna try it." Naruto thought and stood up; he did the seals and breathed out; only succeeding in making a strong gust of wind, no fire. "Wha?" Naruto looked baffled; he wasn't expecting it to be harder than that.
"Okay, where do I get fire to come from? It has to be at the mouth, if it were inside he'd die by being burned from the inside…" Naruto thought and did the seals again, this time he tried to make the chakra spin around, thinking the friction might make the chakra lit up, no success though came out from that idea. Naruto tried and tried again, the sun went down and night fell, but Naruto continued to try. He had managed to make a small flame by concentrating on making a flame instead of trying to inhale as much air as possible, now he had to combine these two so it would become a big ball of fire. Naruto stood up and did the seals concentrating on creating the heat, then he did the next seal and inhaled a massive amount of air, his lung had widened considerably from the constant stretching, and then he combined the heat, the chakra and the air with the final seal and exhaled, creating a large ball of fire that lasted for several seconds. As the fire died down Naruto took a deep breath of air back into his empty lungs and sat down with a thud. Naruto heard the sound of somebody clapping behind the tree next to him and turned around to see who it was, he relaxed with a smile as Sandaime Hokage walked out. "Very good Naruto, I see you figured the technique out all by yourself from only watching it being done, in a combat situation no less." Sandaime said with a smile, which however turned less happy in a second.
"I also hear you fought and beat you teacher Chibo-kun, he is in the hospital and I heard he has a fractured chin and his shoulder was dislocated… do you have anything to say for yourself Naruto?" Sandaime said with a grim tone of voice. Naruto said nothing, only looked up at the man in robes. The Hokage sighed and walked next to Naruto and sat down next to him. "You can't behave like this Naruto; the council is on my back even without you causing trouble all the time…" Sandaime said and sighed. "Sorry… I just couldn't help myself, he is an asshole and he rarely teaches me anything. And I… just decide to kick his ass." Naruto said apologizing. "…Oh well, he'll be fine, but you need to control yourself Naruto, you are stronger than most people. Now tell me about how you learned that Jutsu while we walk back to the village." Sandaime said and stood up as did Naruto. "Well I saw him behave like he was getting ready to do a Jutsu so I began to pay close attention on what he would do…" Naruto began explaining while the two walked back to the village.
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"And so I realized that I needed to use the seals to create a heat and then keep it warm while I inhaled and then release and combine both making the fire ball." Naruto said while slurping his favorite flavor of ramen; Miso with Barbeque pork on top, extra spiced of course. Sandaime laughed, "You are the peculiar one Naruto, you suck in school but you shine in a fight." He said laughing while Naruto grinned widely. The two laughed and ate for fifteen minutes or so until Sandaime stood up, "Sorry Naruto but I have a meeting to attend to, I'll see you again." Sandaime said and left, Naruto waved and ordered another bowl of ramen and began happily eating, unknowing of the tragedy of yet to come. Sandaime Shunshined to his office where two other people were waiting, Koharu Utatane and Homura Mitokado, they were old teammates of Sandaime and had been always toe to toe against him. "Well what is this meeting about?" Sandaime asked with a small smile still left on his face from before. "We have decided that you are too loose on the demon, so we have decided to remove you from you're position, but knowing you're political power, we have decided to take it to further actions…" Homura said looking at Sandaime with Sharp eyes.
"Excuse me?" Sandaime said shocked hoping he had heard wrong, if he wasn't there to protect Naruto, than Naruto would be in trouble. Both Homura and Koharu looked at Sandaime and blurred appearing in front of him with Kunai stabbed in his stomach. "We have decided to kill you." The two said and let go of Sandaime, making him fall backwards and stumble slightly before coughing up some blood and falling on the floor, dead. "Now for the demon." Koharu said and looked out from the balcony window over Konoha. Naruto Meanwhile was happily slurping his ramen and was about to drink a sip of water from his mug, only to notice that the mug had a large crack on it, and broke apart spilling the water over the table. "…" Naruto was not usually a superstitious person, but he had a very bad feeling right now. Naruto took some money and paid for the ramen and stood up to leave, as he exited the ramen bar he heard the speakers used for larger announcements go on. "buzz People of Konoha, I have sad news for you, today only a few minutes ago our beloved leader Sandaime Hokage, Sarutobi Sousuke has been killed by the Kyuubi. For now the control of Konoha has been moved to Koharu Utatane. Also the law stating the silence over the Kyuubi has been erased. We ask of you to inform all of the true identity of the Kyuubi and the help of all in the hunt of the Kyuubi, that is all.buzz" The raspy voice from the speakers said and as it stopped Naruto felt the urge to run, knowing something was up he followed his instincts and ran, as he ran he began hearing shouts all over the village, "Kill the demon!" Was what they shouted and Naruto, remembering being called a demon often ran even faster. Naruto saw an alley and ran in its shadows and ran up to its end where there was a ladder to the roof of the building, Naruto climbed soundlessly up jumped on the roof and lay down on his stomach not to be seen. And then he listened…He could hear many things, people rallying up and searching for the "Demon" which Naruto feared he was. Also, that broadcast was odd, "What the hell is going on here…" Naruto said remembering the announcement. "I need to see Jiichan, but what if… he's dead… NO." Naruto realized that possibility and gasped. "He can't be… right?" Naruto asked himself and realized it was almost the only explanation, Naruto fought back tears.
"No he CAN'T be…" Naruto said and stood up, intending to go find out. Jiji had said he had a meeting, so he would be in his office right? Naruto clenched his fist, took a deep breath and bolted of in a run on top of the roof; he ran to the edge and jumped, landing on the next house's roof. Naruto continued moving on the roof tops to remain unnoticed by the rallying villagers. He arrived soon at the Hokage building and took of on a sprint on the roof he was on and jumped doing a flip in the air flying through a window landing inside the Building in a rain of glass, he saw one, two, three people, damn, he needed to get one floor upwards and fast. "Hey, what the?" A Boy in his fifteens asked was he saw the rain land on the carpet, the next thing he knew he was out cold due to the sandal that had printed its mark on his face. Same happened to his two friends and the last person, a Chuunin who looked tired. "Good thing I had the advantage of surprise…" Naruto said running down the hallway towards the stairs.
Nobody was in the way so Naruto hoped for the best. Naruto ran up the stairway and past the guard and secretary in a mad dash for the door to the office. Naruto jumped and kicked the door open landing inside rolling around on his back. Naruto stood up and saw the chair where Sandaime used to sit and smoke his pipe, it was turned around so Naruto couldn't see who it was, however there was smoke coming from there, like from a pipe. "Jiichan?" Naruto asked, the chair turned around, an old man was sitting there, with a pipe in his mouth. "Oh my, what good luck I have, for you to come here Uzumaki Naruto, no, Kyuubi no Kitsune!" The man said and stood up. Naruto didn't move, he slowly opened his mouth, "Where's Sandaime?" Naruto asked with his fists clenched. The man looked surprised but laughed, "He's right there, he's just taking a nap, but he won't be waking up…" The man said and pointed at the floor behind the desk in front of the chair. Naruto took slowly a step, and another one, and saw it, the body of Sarutobi."Jiichan…" Naruto said and fell to his knees with tears coming down freely from his eyes.
"Oh? A demon can cry? Well don't you worry, he's in heaven where you can't reach him you demon, and now you are going to hell by my hands, Homura Mitokado is my name!" Homura, the man said and drew a long three headed lance from a sheath hung on his back. Naruto stood up. With the tears dry already… and red chakra began to appear around him.
"You murderer…I'LL KILL YOU!!" Naruto shouted and jumped at Homura who grinned and swiped with his Lance hitting Naruto in the shoulder, and making him fall to the ground. "No… to insure the success of Konoha's new Hokage, my sister Koharu, you will be executed in a public ceremony." Homura said while he pinned Naruto to the ground with his foot, Homura did a seal and his fingertips seemed to light aflame, Homura cut Naruto's blue shirt open and hit around the seal on the struggling Naruto with the flames, making odd markings around it. Naruto tried his best to get away but the man was stronger than Naruto could imagine, and when he hit his stomach, Naruto was swept with a wave of pain making him pass out as well as making the red chakra disappear. "There, that should do it…" Homura said and he put his Lance back on his back, lifted Naruto up with one hand and called some Chuunin's. As the Chuunin's arrived he gave them clear orders. "Do not kill him; he is to be perfectly alive for the public execution. And go tell the villagers to stop the search, and where the hell is my sister!" Homura swore getting pissed of waiting for his sister to be ready for the clan meeting, she arrived shortly after. "Lets go, by the way, I just caught the demon brat and had this lovely idea, how about we execute him publicly during the ceremony in where you take the leadership of Konoha." Homura said with a smile. "Sounds like an excellent idea my dear brother." Koharu said smiling back as they walked to the meeting to be held.
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Kyuubi felt his container draw his chakra and so he lifted his head. "What's going on?" Kyuubi asked bored. He searched the recent memories and found out some interesting things, like the old man was killed, a coup d'tat and a fight, Kyuubi saw the man prepare the Gogyō Fūin being prepared by the man and panicked, if the man used it Kyuubi would lose his ability to heal the container or provide chakra, so in his last second he sent chakra to the boys ears enhancing them for a few hours, and then, all went black for Kyuubi.
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"What is going on?! We hear an announcement about Sandaime dying and his position going to Koharu Utatane!" The clan head for the Inuzuka clan, Inuzuka Tsume shouted. "The Kyuubi has killed Sarutobi and ran away, but I caught him. Koharu shall be the Godaime Hokage, Sandaime died because he was too soft on the demon, and the demon got enough time to recover it's powers and so it killed Sousuke. During the ceremony where my sister shall be made Hokage, the demon shall be executed!" Homura said in a loud and clear voice that everyone heard. There were murmurs and whispers but all seemed to accept this new turn of events. "Then so it shall be, on first day of the next month, my sister, Koharu Utatane shall become the Fifth Hokage of Konoha!" Homura shouted.
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Naruto woke up with a groan; he looked around and saw he was in sort of dank place, with rats running around no less. Naruto noted as he saw a rat. He looked around and noted that it was a small stone room, like a sewer, or a jail cell underground. "Oh fuck…" Naruto groaned. He lost, he realized. "Damn…" Naruto swore and sat up, he noted that his legs and hands had been tied, his hands behind his back also, Naruto used some chakra on his shoulder forcibly popping it out of its socket, Naruto winced slightly but did it again with his other shoulder, now that his hands had more freedom he moved the under his feet so they were in front of him. Naruto popped back his shoulders with a wince and a curse and began chewing the ropes, three bites and he was free, next he did it to the rope constricting his feet, three bites again and he felt the blood return to his feet. Naruto massaged his arms and ankles while thinking back. Sandaime was dead… and he was going to be executed unless he got out. Naruto stood up wobbly and stood still for a few seconds to regain his sense of balance, when done Naruto walked to the door, it was solid iron, Naruto wouldn't be able to break it even if he had both time and freedom to do as much noise as possible.
"Hmm…" Naruto walked to the wall made out of stone and checked it, the stone was harder than the stone he could break so that possibility was out as well, maybe the floor? Naruto checked every square inch but found nothing on the floor, "The ceiling?" Naruto looked up and saw only shiny steel, or metal of some sort. Naruto sighed and sat down. How would he be able to escape from here…? Naruto looked around for a torch to warm himself with in the cold cell but found none, nor any other light sources for that matter and yet it was very light in his cell, almost as light as outside. No more like in a hospital, but yet there was no light-source in his cell. Naruto walked to the wall and knocked his finger on it; sounded like solid hard rock to him… But you have to try, right? So Naruto hit with his full strength only to cry out in pain while blowing at the sore fist. hahahaha Naruto heard a faint laugh and looked around, nobody was there. Naruto tried smelling but noticed nothing, except a sweet scent in the air… wait what? Sweet? Naruto looked at the other walls suspiciously and did a jump kick at one wall, and another kick at another one, and a spinning kick at the door. Nothing, all sounded like solid rock, wait, the iron door didn't vibrate at all, iron should vibrate if he kicked it, unless there was no air behind it allowing it to vibrate.
"So basically, I'm in a cube formed cell surrounded completely by rock, even the door, but then how was I moved here if there is no door…and the laughing, and the smell, something's funny here…" Naruto thought while looking around suspiciously and then he heard a laugh again, though this time it wasn't a deep rumble but childish giggle, like the difference between a child and a man… as the laughing continued Naruto was able to trace it coming from above as he looked up with out a warning the laughing stopped. "Something's above…" Naruto whispered and returned to look down, Naruto moved around again as if inspecting the walls but only really listening closely for those odd sounds, Naruto however soon noticed that something was up with his hearing, he could clearly hear himself breathe as if he was breathing into a microphone, and his heart beat he could hear clearly as well. Naruto stopped paying attention to these and went back to listening for those odd laughs, he heard some talking, at the level of whispers, so he concentrated harder, and the he could hear; "Look son, do you see? That is the demon that held the village of Konoha hostage by hypnotizing the last Hokage, oh he was a fine man but he couldn't resist that demons powers…" A manly voice whispered, Naruto heard. "Oh? That boy! You always told me to stay away from him, because he's the Kyuubi!" A child's voice whispered,
Naruto froze. "´Kyuubi?" Naruto thought shocked, now that he tried to think clearer he remembered all the names and the beatings, it kind of made sense… But even so, if he was a demon, than the villagers were devils when compared to him. Naruto looked up, and decided to try an idea of his. "Haaa…." Naruto took a deep breath of air and summoned chakra all over his body and prepared to jump, his body tightened like a spring to the max, and then; Boom! Naruto jumped with his back hitting the ceiling that broke apart like a glass, above was rows of seat filled with people eating sweets and popcorn pointing down at where he had just been. Naruto did a flip in mid-air and landed with a thud, everybody went silent; Naruto stood up straight and opened his eyes "Boo…" Naruto said in a sarcastic tone. "Ahhh! The demon broke loose! Were all going to die!" some people shouted as the crowd panicked and tried to get out from the nearest exit, Naruto used the confusion and ran out through a hatch in the ceiling probably leading to some electric cables for the lights. Naruto crawled in the layer between the ceiling and another ceiling until he found another hatch; he opened it and jumped out into the sunlight. "Whoa!" Naruto took a deep breath of air and looked around, he was at the theater district, good, it was close to the eastern gate. Naruto saw the gate and did a mad dash towards it; he needed to get out of the village, and quick! Naruto jumped on the roof tops and jumped down on the ground scaring the guard, "WAAH! Oh you scared me, don't do tha- Hey! It's the demon!" The guard shouted before he was introduced to Naruto's foot. Naruto was about to run out of the gate but decided to not to do it, he instead took the guard and dragged him into the shadows and Henged into him. Naruto took the place where the guard had just lied down on and waited, a few seconds later a few other guards came dashing towards him, Naruto got weakly up and pointed at the forest.
"H-he ran that way… the Kyuubi, it's on the loose…" Naruto said imitating the guards voice and pretended to pass out. The Guards all ran to the forest to look for "Kyuubi" while Naruto got up and dragged the guard back to where he had been and tied the guard up with the mans own ninja wire. Naruto took another Henge turned into a man in his twenties wearing a basic Chuunin's outfit and walked towards the ninja shops in the shopping district. If he was going to leave, then why not leave with a bang…Naruto found one shop with no customers and a bored teenager picking his nose on the counter. "How can I serve you?" the teenager said while ruffling his bushy black hair. Naruto Put his hand at his chin and looked like he was thinking, "Show me you're explosive, smoke, flash and boom tags." Naruto said sounding like an average ninja, "This way…" The teen said and took Naruto to a closet and opened it revealing several large piles of seal tags.
"Thanks." Naruto said with a smile and chopped the teenager in the neck knocking him out, Naruto dragged the guy behind the counter and checked if anybody was in the back, luckily it seemed like the owner was out on lunch. Naruto took a bag and filled it with the tags and some ninja wires and a few makabishi seals. Naruto looked at the walls for any nice weapons he could take now that he was shopping with an endless credit, And saw a large foldable shuriken that was real nice and could be hidden underneath his jacket so he took it and hid it under his jacket in his belt so that he could easily pull it out in case of danger. (A/N: It looks like the ones that Mizuki used in the canon but are foldable like the one Sasuke uses from time to time.) There was also some nice shiny new Shuriken and Kunai packages that Naruto noticed, Naruto grinned and took a new bandage roll and wrapped it around his right thigh and took a knee holster and filled it with some brand new projectiles. Then he took an extra sized belt package and filled with the basic stuff; Kunai, Shuriken, Scrolls, extra bandages, empty tags and some wire. After that, he checked for anything else useful: there was a nice shiny Katana on the wall but decided not to take it, it would only get in the way. Then he saw a Black cloak with a hood that looked useful so he took it and folded it into the bag (AN: Like the Akatsuki cloak only with a hood on it, oh and no clouds.) Naruto tied up the guy with some more wire and stuffed some rags he had found in the back of the shop in his mouth.
After that he left leaving the tag on 'Closed' at the door. After that Naruto walked around placing random seals at random places where they couldn't be found easily with some chakra infused, so they would activate at his mark, At every gate Naruto left two or three Makabishi tags just for fun. He Left some ninja wires in between buildings everywhere he could at ankle height, so people would trip when running. After finishing that Naruto left for a last round in Konoha, He ended up at Ichiraku ramen, which happened to be the only place untagged except the Hokage monument. He sat down and ordered a Miso ramen with extra spices as well as pork, though as the owners, An old man and his daughter, took the order they seemed slightly down. When Naruto was finished he stood up to leave getting a shout from the owner of the stall. "Hey! Where do you think you're going with out paying!" The owner, Teuchi shouted though nobody else but he, his daughter, Ayame, and Naruto noticed. Naruto, still in his Henge dropped his acting on the voice and said: "Put it on my tab old man." And left, leaving the stunned two behind. Naruto walked to the Northern gate and exited with a wave to the guards who wished him good luck on his mission, like they always did to ninja leaving the village. Naruto walked for a few hours until he reached the top of a mountain surrounding Konoha and looked back with a grin, Naruto lifted his right hand and did the Tiger seal with it, "Enjoy you're party Konoha, the Village hidden in the leaves, and Jiichan, I'll come back some day and avenge you, but for now, I need to get stronger. Bye, for now. KAI!" Naruto said and activated the hundreds of explosions, flashes, smokescreens and high volume 'booms' sounds all around Konoha causing chaos. Naruto turned around and took the cloak from the bag and put it on as he dropped the empty bag behind. Naruto put it on but didn't close it or put up the hood as it was warm. Naruto jumped up into a tree and began jumping away, destination: Fire Countrys Northern border.
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Naruto was roasting a bunny he caught earlier now on a fire, he had traveled for a few hours and was half way to the border, Naruto had decided to go to the Waterfall country as it was a small country with a small hidden village where he could rest for a while. The sun was going down already so Naruto decided to do some training, he ate the rabbit and put out the fire. He searched for a good spot where he could train, he found an opening next to a river that was perfect, he began by picking up a leaf that was on the ground and began hovering it on his palm with his chakra, it required some chakra control so it was a good exercise, though it had gotten easy already. Naruto began slowly spinning his chakra so the leaf would spin as well, when it was spinning fast enough Naruto threw it at a tree; the leaf lodged deep in the tree even though it was much softer than the tree. Naruto pulled out the Fuuma Shuriken he had stolen earlier and began practicing throwing it on the tree, after a few minutes of practicing he tried to add a ninja wire on it to gain control over its flight path, only resulting in the string being turned into a birds nest as it had gotten in the blades. So Naruto practiced with the Fuuma shuriken for a few hours until it was completely dark. Naruto stopped training and set up a fire where he had done it earlier and left, he walked to a tall tree a ten meters or so away from the fire, that would act as a bait for intruders. Naruto climbed up and took a comfortable position in the tree and promptly fell asleep.
Naruto had a few nightmares about how Sandaime had been killed and such so he woke up quite a few times from his sleep. The Next morning Naruto woke up at the crack of dawn, he went to the spot yesterday and stretched and loosened up for an hour and then did some light kick and punch practice at a tree and then he took a bath in the river. He dried himself with his cloak and hung it to dry while he searched for food, he found some edible herbs and berries that'd have to do. Naruto walked back to his cloak and put it on while he ate the berries and herbs with a sour face, it didn't compare to ramen. After that Naruto began running again hoping to reach the border today. So he looked up and noted that the trees here were to young so he would have to travel by running on the ground. "Troublesome…" Naruto muttered and began running again.
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Naruto was at a border that was right, but not exactly the border he wanted to be at, as the border he was at was a border between forests, and desert, he had gone too much to the west and end up in the Land of the Wind, "Oh…Fuck it all…" Naruto cursed and entered the desert, he had no idea where he was so might as well go to the desert, or maybe not but Naruto was feeling lucky, very lucky one might say. So Naruto began wandering in the desert, he walked in what he thought a straight line when he was actually walking in a slight curve to the left.
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Naruto had now been walking two days straight in the desert, and still no signs of anything, "I'm…so…fucking…stupid…" Naruto mumbled as he took step after step in the endless hell of the desert. Naruto continued to walk until he saw a cliff, "shadow" he thought and began walking to it and sat down in its shade for a brake. He sat there for a few minutes when a large snake, and I mean huge, it was so long it could possibly wrap it self around the Hokage tower three times, appeared and crashed down where Naruto was resting, Naruto however using the last drips of strength jumped out of the way, though it was short lived as the snake came attacking at Naruto again, this time as the beast neared Naruto's vision went blurry and his legs felt like spaghetti as the beast neared Naruto was almost ready t die, when a blur appeared and took Naruto into the safety of the mountains where the huge snake couldn't come in fear of killing itself by falling on sharp rocks. Naruto opened his eyes slowly to see a large light-brown wolf in front of him. "Whaz? Naruto looked at the wolf with wide eyes, "Nice dogg-" Naruto passed out from exhaustion. The wolf looked at the boy in front of him for a while but then left. Naruto slept for a few hours and then woke up, he sat up and wondered where he was, "I remember a snake…" Naruto said scratching his head trying to remember what had happened after that. Then he looked up, to see a large wolf looking at him. Naruto lifted his hand and greeted,
"Yo…" Naruto said with his eyes closed in a foxy way. The wolf seemed to laugh, knowing Naruto's brains wasn't fully working yet. "So… oh yeah, thanks for saving me earlier from the snaky guy…" Naruto said pointing into a random direction that was supposed to represent 'back there'. "No worries…" The wolf said with a nod, Naruto nodded, "Cool…" Naruto said and looked at the wolf. Naruto's eyes went wide like saucers, "Did you just talk?!" Naruto shouted as he jumped up pointing at the wolf. "Well yeah…hey wait a minute! You understand what I'm saying?!" The wolf shouted panicking. "Yeah…" Both the wolf and Naruto said to each other, "Okay this is freaky…" Naruto said slightly alarmed. "Yeah tell me about it…" the wolf said, "So…I'm Naruto…" Naruto said and extended his hand to shake it. "I'm Zero…" the wolf said and looked at the hand and sniffed at it. "So… what do we do now?" Naruto asked slightly bored. "Well you could start by telling me what the hell are you, a human, doing here in the desert?" Zero asked looking at Naruto like he was stupid. "I just went out for a walk…" Naruto said trying to act innocent. "Who the hell just takes a walk into the desert? Without water? Without food? Without a guide? An idiot that's who!" Zero shouted with his head the size of a demons while Naruto sweat dropped. "Uh…sorry?" Naruto tried Making a vein appear on Zero's head.
"Sorry?grumble idiot humans…" Zero mumbled and began walking away. Naruto stood up and followed after the wolf, they walked and jumped through cliffs and sand when finally the wolf turned around to look at Naruto. "What are you? Nobody has ever been able to follow me, even without me running at full speed but you stayed behind even at full speed, who? No what are you?" Zero asked looking suspiciously at Naruto. "Me? I… think I'm a demon…" Naruto said looking at his feet while kicking some pebbles. "Demon…? Gahahhahahahhaha!!" Zero began laughing his ass of on the sand while pointing at Naruto with his paw, "You? A demon? Hahahahaaahhhaa…good joke kid…" Zero said still laughing while Naruto looked ready to explode. "I'm serious you furball, in my village everybody hated and beat me up, and they always called me a demon." Naruto said trying to convince the Wolf crying as he tried to stop laughing. "Oh? Is that right mister I'm-a-demon Hah!" Zero said and got up and dusted himself.
"Well no matter, we're almost at my den, from there I'll get you out from the desert tonight, its to hot still so you'll have to rest demon." Zero said snickering as he walked towards a large cliff. Naruto followed pouting about the stupid wolf until they came to the cliff and entered a large cave. "You'll rest here, I'm going to go hunt…" Zero said and left, Naruto sat there for a few minutes and then got up and exited the cave and climbed to the top of the cliff. "Whoah!! Nice view!" Naruto shouted looking over at the desert, with the lowering sun giving the sands a red hue it looked slightly as if a sea of blood had been taken into a still photo. Naruto looked around for anything edible but found nothing on the desert, then he looked up, there were several scavenger birds flying above expecting and waiting Naruto to pass out so they could eat him. Naruto licked his lips and lifted his right hand to his belt and moved it behind him, grabbing the large foldable shuriken and unfolding it in one swift flick of the wrist. "Lunch!!!" Naruto shouted and threw the shuriken in the air with all his might; and soon down came a rain of blood, two halves of a bird and a metal star that lodged itself in the cliff rock dangerously near where Naruto was.
"Woah… to close…" Naruto said and slowly backing away from the star that fallen almost In his crotch. Naruto took the shuriken, threw it in the air again and caught it and folding it in one smooth maneuver, Naruto placed it back in his belt after checking it for any damage from the fall, then he took the bird halves and pluck all the feathers of and removing all the unwanted intestines and guts and then took it inside to the cave, Naruto pulled out some ninja wire and put the bird halves hanging to the ceiling of the cave and began cooking one half with his Fiery breath. (Katon. Goukakyuu no Jutsu for those who didn't guess) Fifteen minutes later Zero came back without any prey, "Sorry, I got nothing so we're gonna have to starve for the momen-" Zero stopped talking as the blood entered his nose. "Yo Zero, I caught some chicken, I left some uncooked for ya." Naruto said taking a break from roasting the chicken and pointing at the other half. "Uh? How… did you catch that bird?" Zero asked bewildered, it was impossible to catch a bird right? They can fly you' know. Naruto drew and opened the shuriken on his back in one swift movement and showed it to Zero. "I threw this babe at it and it came down in two pieces, so are ya gonna eat?" Naruto explained and folded the shuriken and put it back in his belt. "Well…thanks…" Zero said and took his half and began eating it. "This is my way of repaying you for earlier." Naruto said while he resumed to blow fire. Zero noticed now that Naruto was blowing fire now, "You know, I'm beginning to believe you on that demon thing…" Zero said looking at Naruto slightly alarmed. "Huh? Oh the fire, it's a technique that uses spirit energy and stamina to create fire. Nothing hard really." Naruto said and resumed to breathing fire while turning around the meat so it would be nicely done all around. Naruto finished cooking it in a bout an hour and then he began to eat with Zero looking at him.
"Why do you humans, er, demons 'cook' your meat, it loses all the juiciness you know in the fire…" Zero said looking at Naruto dig in into the bird. Naruto stopped eating and swallowed his mouth full, "I don't know… I don't think other demons cook their food but humans do it… I guess to differ themselves from Nature and animals, in a way humans see themselves as better than animals…" Naruto said and took a bite. "And I'm just used to eating food when its cooked, the idea of raw meat slightly appalls me but I guess I could manage it… but one dish is only possible through cooking and that is ramen, and if ramen didn't exist I'd probably kill myself from the need of its divine deliciousness…" Naruto said with starry eyes and drooling while Zero sweatdropped, "You are weird…" Zero said and lowered his head on top of his paws. "Yeah… tell me about it, here I am, talking to a wolf…" Naruto said and took another chomp from his meat. After eating Naruto licked his fingers and too a kunai and one of the remaining bones and cut it in half and began to eat the bone marrow. Zero looked oddly at Naruto but took on of his bones and began to chew on it. "Bone marrow is a rich source of nutrients…" Naruto said and took a finger full of the marrow, Zero nodded and tried to break the bone with his teeth, "You need help? That's bad for you're teeth ya'know?" Naruto said and looked at the wolf. Zero looked at NArtuo and shrugged, Naruto took the bone and cut it in half by its length like before and gave it back to Zero.
Though as the birds bones are quite thin they ate all the bone marrow in a few minutes. It was getting darker already so Zero stood up, "Hey, Zero, mind if I stay here for a few days?" Naruto asked not wanting to leave somebody who didn't shun him. "Yes I would mind, I am a lone wolf, I only rescued you because that snake was hunting in my territory, I'd like you to leave as soon as possible…" Zero said though he liked the boy. "Oh, I see… well how about I leave tomorrow, after we kill the snake." Naruto said though he whispered the last part. "Deal, hey wait what! Kill the snake? Are you stupid? That thing isn't only big, its also cunning and fast." Zero shouted not wanting to go up against the snake.
"Oh come on you big pussy, are you wolf or a bitch?" Naruto taunted while looking at the wolf straight in the eye. "You…" Zero began but said nothing. "I'm not taking a part in this, if you want to die, then fine, go get yourself killed and eaen by a snake." Zero mumbled and lay down as if to sleep. Naruto grinned, Yoshi, tomorrow, we're going to hunt for a snake!" Naruto said exited about revenge against that stupid big-snake. "Hey, is there any water near here?" Naruto asked Zero who pointed in a direction with his nose and said: "There's a pond over there a few miles away…" Zero said hoping to discourage Naruto. Naruto got up and left jogging towards the direction while he released a wire that had been tied to a rock, even if he got lost he'd get back easily. Naruto found the pond after a few minutes of joggin and inspected the water, it'd have to do… Naruto took several deep gulps and washed his face. After that he filled his water bottle that had emptied long ago. Naruto took out an empty piece of paer and wrote some seals on it with his blood and put it next to the pond, then he did some seals and shouted: "Mizu Hōin" Sealing a few gallons of water to the seal, it would be useful later, he just knew it. After that Naruto got up to leave but had no idea where to, so he lifted his pinky where the wire had been tied to and followed it, he came back to the cave before a sand storm whipped it self up. "Yo!" Naruto greeted to the wolf standing at the entrance of the cave. "Idiot, you weren't supposed to actually go there, it's a miracle you didn't get lost…" Zero said and walked back inside.
"Whatever wolf, I'm going to sleep now, wake me up when you wanna go kill the snake." Naruto said and lay down on the ground and fell asleep in a second, his hand however twitched showing he was ready to pull a kunai in a seconds notice. Xero scoffed ad lay down to sleep as well.
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Naruto opened his eyes and stood up with a loud yawn accompanying him on the way up, "Goo-ood morning!" Naruto said stretching his arms. Zero looked up at the boy stretching and yawned, "What are you doing up already? yawn the suns not even up yet…" Zero whined. "The early bird catches the worm, or eheh in this case, the snake, it must still be sleeping as it can't produce heat on its own, we have a considerable advantage in that case." Naruto as he tried to get the wolf up. "Hah, I tired that already, its not really a snake, it's a monster." Zero said yawning. "What, but I thought snakes were cold blood… oh well, we'll just kill it anyway…" Naruto shrugged ad began walking out to the still freezing desert. "Do you even know where it lives?" Zero asked and got up to follow the stupid boy.
"No, but you do." Naruto said grinning, and so they left for snake hunting. After a half an hours walk they came to a large canyon, with the snake sleeping at the bottom. Naruto grinned and drew his shuriken and unfolded it, "I take the left and you the right side, Okay?" Naruto said and jumped without letting the Wolf whine back, "Troublesome…" Zero mumbled and jumped down and closer to the Snake, the biggest problem is the snakes thick scales, nothing could penetrate through it except the sharp rocks at the east parts of the desert, however this was the west side so that was out of question, so Zero was ready to run in a seconds notice. Naruto however unlike Zero had jumped high up in the air and now he was spinning while falling down, as he gained enough force he released the shuriken. The Shuriken flew faster than Zero could see so he didn't expect it when the snake suddenly got hit by some thing, the snake roared as the shuriken hit its skull, giving it a small concussion, but not even nearly piercing its scales. Naruto was wide eyed, "That was a chakra enhanced shuriken!" Naruto shouted not believing it, this beast was something else. Naruto landed with a thud next to Zero and stood up and eyed the snake trying to invent a strategy. "I told you, I suggest we run, now." Zero said and turned to leave, but Naruto Took of the left while blurring through seals, "KATON: GOUKAKYUU NO JUTSU!" Naruto's voice roared as he breathed the largest fire ball he had ever done, the snake seemed taken back by the sudden fire but was not even nearly affected by it. "Hey baka! It's scales protect it from that!" Zero shouted running to the left hoping to distract the beast, he could out run it, but he didn't think Naruto could, he could because he could do That power. Naruto stopped running and jumped up and flipped in mid-air making the snakes jaws miss him by an inch, Naruto grinned and flipped in mid-air again and kicked the snake in the head with full force making Naruto fly back into the canyon walls, Naruto took the energy from the flight and received it in his legs like a spring again, and boom he took of doing a cannon ball like kick in the snakes still dazed head, Naruto flipped and landed in front of the snake but quickly jumped backwards as soon he landed to where Zero was wide eyed. "Woah…unreal…" Zero mumbled at the fact that the snake was down, though not for good but still, Naruto had done more damage to it than anyone had ever before.
"How'd-ya like that mothafucka!" Naruto shouted while doing a backwards peace sign. (A/N: IN England its like the middle finger/I Think...) The snake shook its head, it was pissed, first something crashes on its head giving it a headache and then that breakfast hit it hard and a third time even harder, it was pissed, and it was gonna have its revenge. The snake lifted its head and roared, then it hit its head to the ground lifting a large dust cloud, Naruto and Zero were both blinded and deafened and when they looked at the dust cloud after it had settled down the snake wasn't there anymore, only a big hole remained, Naruto looked down and saw the ground shake under the two. "JUMP!" Naruto shouted and jumped as did Zero, from down came something shooting at high speeds but not reaching the duo in the air, "Were safe…" Naruto relaxed, but then a head shoot out from the canyon wall next to the, they looked down and saw that the thing that had shoot out was its tail. "Fuck, we can dodge in mid-air!" Naruto shouted in panic, Zero however bit his teeth together and kicked Naruto out of the Snakes path so he was in safety, "Zero!" Naruto shouted as he saw the snake close in. Then, a shining mist appeared around Zero, and Zero dodged the incoming death with newfound agility, however he was not unhurt, a lose scale on the snakes head had slashed Zero's ribcage, he was bleeding. Zero grimaced in pain, however not from the wound, no it was not that, it felt like his bones were on fire an freezing in the same time. "Naruto, ugh…run, I'll hold hi so you can escape, I won't be able to hold him for long, go that way and you'll get to the edge of the desert…gah…hurry…" Zero shouted and dashed at the Snake with incredible speed and agility dodging all its attempt to hit Zero. Naruto, still shocked began running away to the way Zero had showed. After running for a minute he stopped, "What the hell am I doing?! Am I gonna abandon my friend? FUCK THAT!" Naruto shouted and did a 180 running back to the canyon, where Zero was panting with is face in an expression of pain. The mist that had empowered him disappeared. "I Guess my life ends here… I was always a loner…keh I've gone crazy, helping a human…" Zero said and readied for the last strike that would kill him, the snake slowly closed in, savoring every moment of its victims helplessness, As it was about to do the last strike a shout and a rumble was heard. "WARNING! THIS AREA IS PRONE TO EARTH SLIDES!" Naruto shouted while riding a large rock that was falling, exactly to where the snake was, before the snake could slither away the rock hit it, the snake roared in pain and coughed out junk it had eaten in the course of its life, rocks, cars, swords, elephants… you name it. Naruto jumped down from the rock with a grin.
"Yo! Zero you okay?" Naruto said with a humongous grin. Zero scowled, "Never been worse…but, thank you though, we're even now…" Zero said though he had rescued Naruto twice. "No prob, anything for a friend…" Naruto said with grin still on his face, then he looked at the snake. "Wow! This'll feed us for months!" Naruto shouted and began looking around in the stuff it had coughed out. "Where does all this stuff come from?" Naruto asked picking up a rusty sword. "It used to live near a ruin where people were excavating but it ate everybody." Zero said walking slowly towards Naruto. "So… what was that mist earlier?" Naruto asked looking at Zero. "You know that wolves are pack animals right?" Zero asked, Naruto nodded. "Have you wondered why I live alone?" Zero continued. "Cuz you're an ass?" Naruto tried with a grin. "No… its because I inherited that power from my father, I was treated like a monster and I was an outcast so I left." Zero said with a angry voice. "Wow, we're alike, I have this really odd demon power that super powered me and people hate me to." Naruto said and dropped the sword. "Two lone wolves huh?" Zero said with an away look on his face. Grrraahhhh!! the snake groaned as it got up again shaking its head, okay, it was pissed before, now it was furious. Naruto shouted panicking while Zero got up tiredly. "I can't fight…" Zero said while grimacing about the pain in his bones from using the mist power. "I'll buy time you run." Naruto said and prepared to fight, "You don't know the way around here, you'd just get lost…" Zero said and Naruto sweatdropped. "Well, it seems there is only one solution…Victory." Naruto said and put his hands in the ram seal and summoned some chakra making a ball of chakra appear around him, Zero gasped, "What the!" Zero said and took a step back from the boy shrouded in blue flames.
"RAAAARGH!" Naruto shouted and bolted forwards while picking up two straight two edged short swords, Naruto jumped and spun around while cutting the snake with the swords, as Naruto landed back to the ground there was no damage on the snake, only the swords were affected, as they broke apart. "Damn it!" Naruto shouted and began running around the snake trying to think up a plan, he saw his shuriken in the sand so he picked it up, and jumped throwing it, the result did not differ from last time, no damege but the shuriken shattered from the impact, the snake grinned and shot at Naruto, Naruto evaded it with pure luck and landed in the middle of the things the snake had coughed up. "Naruto!" Zero shouted and tried to move, only to wince in pain. Naruto got up and saw something in front of him, I was a large wooden boomerang that had bandages around it, it looked like junk, but the odd thing was that while all other things the snake had coughed up had eroded by its stomach acids, the boomerang looked perfectly fine. (A/N: Here's a pic, just Ignore Jio, he's the real owner of the boomerang http://en. ) Naruto picked it up and looked at it in wonder, it was light, he was snapped out of his thoughts as Zero shouted, "Snap out of it Naruto, the snake is coming!" Naruto looked up and saw the snake, he jumped back evading it barely, Naruto ran to the right to where there was less junk in the way with the boomerang still in his hand. Naruto stopped and decided to throw some thing again, well the thing closest to hand was the boomerang,
"Oh, what the hell…" Naruto said and reached back his right arm with the boomerang and gathered strength to the throw, he suddenly felt funny, like he was on fire somehow, but it felt like he could conquer the world now. Zero gasped, the mist, the mist had appeared around Naruto. Naruto threw the boomerang with all his strength, it flew with awesome speed and power, it seemed as if its speed and power doubled as it left his hand… "DIE!" Naruto shouted as the boomerang left his hand and flew at the snake, the snake saw it coming and moved its head to the left, making the boomerang miss. "GAH!" Naruto shouted, he missed, damn! Naruto was about to jump back when he saw the boomerang come flying back. "!" Naruto saw it coming, the snake didn't thus it his it right under its head, cutting it with ease, and continuing its flight towards Naruto. Naruto swore, "Oh Fuck…" There was something more deadly then the snake coming right his way.
BOOM The boomerang hit, a large dust cloud rose from the impact. "NARUTO!" Zero shouted in panic, was he dead. Naruto opened his eyes, he was on the ground on his back, with the boomerang in between his legs, an inch from his crotch. Naruto let out a sigh of relief. "That was to close…" Naruto said while slowly backing away from the Boomerang and standing up.
"This is my kinda toy…" Naruto said with a grin and picked it up and placing it under his belt where he used to keep the shuriken. Naruto looked at the decapitated body of the snake and walked to Zero, "Now you won't have to worry about food for a while!" Naruto said with a grin laughing. Zero looked at Naruto, "I'm not gonna eat that snake, who knows what its been eating all this time…" Zero said, "Hehe…so…were just gonna leave it here?" Naruto said and zero nodded, "Cool…" Naruto said and picked up Zero who protested. "Hey! What do you think you are doing?!" Zero shouted trying to get away from the hold of Naruto, "Calm down, you can't move right? So I'll carry you, just tell me which way it is." Naruto said smiling. Zero sighed and stopped fighting back, "Okay okay… that way…" Zero grumbled embarrassed over being carried. The two found their way to the cave and rested for a few hours after which Naruto tried to hunt with his new toy, and he was lucky the boulder he was standing on didn't crack when the boomerang returned along with a new 'Chicken' which Naruto again shared and cooked. When Naruto was done Zero had already eaten so he was just resting his bones while eating some bone mallow. "So, you talked about that snake had been around some ruins, eating everything in its way right…" Naruto said as he took down his done 'chicken'. "Yeah…" Zero said and licked clean the bone cut in two by the courtesy of Naruto. "So I figure this thing is from there…" Naruto said and looked at the boomerang.
"Could be, by the way what are you gonna call it? A weapon of that might needs a name." Zero said and licked the bone half clean. "Hmmm….Zero." Naruto said looking at Zero. "Yeah?" Zero said and licked some more bone marrow.
"I'm gonna call it Zero." Naruto said and looked at the boomerang. "Keh, you flatter me." Zero said with a smile on his wolf face. Naruto grinned and took a bite from his chicken. "Mmmm…" Naruto savored the taste of the bird. After eating the bird Naruto licked his fingers and sucked the bones clean from mallow. "Hey, I'm gonna leave for those ruins tomorrow okay?" Naruto said and lay down on his side, "Sure I'll show you the way there tomorrow morning, and you're always welcome to come back here, as long as you open some bones and slice some birdies…" Zero said licking his lips, those birds tasted mighty fine. "Sure thing." Naruto said grinning and closed his eyes. "Night Zero." Naruto said and fell asleep, "Night kid." Zero said and closed his eyes as well.
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Naruto woke up as something wet went across his face, Naruto scrunched his nose and opened his eyes to see a large nose so close to his face it looked humongous, "WAAH!" Naruto shouted and backed away in a bolt. "Hey Naruto, ya okay?" Zero asked looking at Naruto. "Huh? Uh yeah… you just woke me up…" Naruto and lifted his hands to his face to rub his eyes he however stopped when he felt his cheeks were covered with something slimy. "Zero…did you lick my face?" Naruto asked leaking some killer intent. "Uh, what? No… why would I do that?" Zero said while whistling and backing away from Naruto.
"Why you…" Naruto shouted and jumped on Zero and wiped all the slime away on Zero's fur. "H-hey you bastard!" Zero shouted after getting free, though with a price, his clean fur was now slimy. "You started it!" Naruto said and drew his Zero in case Zero went berserk. Zero seemed to begin seeping some mist as his eyes turned red. "Uh-oh KAI!" Naruto said and drew seal tag with the water in it and released all the water on top of Zero.
"Cool down will ya?" Naruto said not sure if Zero was calm now. To Naruto's surprise Zero began laughing, "Haa…That was refreshing, and my fur is clean now." Zero said looking at the spot where Naruto had wiped all the droll on. "Well, shall we go now?" Zero asked and Naruto nodded, so they left the cave and began in a seemingly random direction. After a few hours the sun rose but Zero kept them in the shadows so they had it okay, after a few more hours they rested and drank at a river running through the Desert. They continued running for a few more hours until they arrived at the edge of the desert. "This is where we separate, follow that river and you'll find there…" Zero said and sat down in front of Naruto. "Well, see ya around sometime Zero, and thanks for being a friend." Naruto said and began walking along the river. Zero stayed for a few more minutes watching Naruto walk into the horizon after that he left back.
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Naruto walked along the river with a smile on his face and whistling some tune he had heard before he left Konoha, "Jiichan…" Naruto said and a sad face took over for the happy face, "I'll definitely avenge you…" Naruto said and continued walking for a minute until he decided to pick up the pace and began running along the river looking around for the ruins, he had no idea what the ruins looked like so he was looking around extra carefully. After running for a few minutes he heard a scream. Naruto stopped running and tried to find out where it came from, he heard it again and began running towards where he had heard it from. He jumped over a rock and saw a bunch of people, three guys, and a girl who had blue hair in a pigtail.(A/N: Pic of her, ignore the one on the right, that is her a few years older http://upload. .) The guys were apparently harassing the girl but Naruto wasn't exactly sure so he opted to wait and hear some more, cuz it could be that the guys were being robbed by the little girl with pigtails… "Now are you going to cooperate and translate the ancient scripts to us?" A bald man with some sort of tube bent like an L in his hand and was pointing it at the girl. "Never!" The girl shouted and closed her eyes as if waiting for him to hit her, the Baldy didn't hit her but instead said: "Then die…" While he lifted the L at her head and prepared to do something, Naruto stood up and introduced himself. "Hey! Whatcha guys doing?" Naruto shouted while looking curiously at the four people, the two other guys seemed to be scared of Naruto the girl looked torn between telling Naruto to run and to ask for help, the last guy, Baldy looked angry for some reason. "Don't interrupt me!" Baldy shouted and pointed the L at Naruto and suddenly Naruto's senses screamed at him to dodge, Naruto did as told and he heard something fly past him. Naruto jumped down to where the others were and looked intrigued.
"What was that, it was fast…" Naruto said and drew his boomerang. Baldy sneered and laughed, "This is the power of my O-part, are you sure you want to die?" Baldy said and pointed the thing at Naruto again, this time however Naruto didn't let the man do that again but instead appeared in front of him kicking him fro here to dreamland. The two other guys, henchmen Naruto assumed seemed torn between helping Baldy or running. Naruto didn't however allow them that as he appeared behind them and chopped them in the neck knocking both out. Naruto dragged them to the baldy and took some ninja wire and tied them up real tight. Naruto checked them for any weapons and found an axe with the baldy along with the odd L thing. Naruto stood up straight and looked at the girl. "So… who are again?" Naruto asked unsure if she had introduced herself, "Uh, I'm sorry, My name is Ruby Crescent, pleased to meet you!" She introduced herself fast, almost as if she was scared. "Uh, hi! I'm Naruto, I'm looking for some ruins that are supposed to be near here…" Naruto said looking around, "Oh you mean the ancient rui-! Uh nothing…" the girl Ruby said closing her mouth hastily with her hands. "Ancient, I'm not sure about that, Zero just said they were ruins… but I suppose they are ancient. So are you gonna tell me where they are?" Naruto said looking at girl before him. "Well, do you promise not to tell anybody about the ruins? Because if people find out about these ruins than power hungry people will flock here and destroy these ancient ruins…" Ruby said and gor up from the ground with a serious look on her face. "Sure, I just wanna find out about this boomerang I found, Zero said that the snake that ate it use to live here and I figured it might have eaten somebody along with it here." Naruto said and showed her Zero. "Hey, that's an O-part, you say you got it from a snake… well the old field records do say a snake attacked them during they're expedition…" Ruby said looking thoughtful.
"O-part? Field records? Expedition? Wha?" Naruto said confused by all the odd terms. "Oh sorry… an O-part is an ancient tool that has effects that can be used in exchange for spirit energy, you use it by releasing spirit and then activating the effect, like with that Gun, it had the effect of water, so that man could shoot bullets of water with it. Have you activated you're O-part?" Ruby asked getting a question mark from Naruto. "Have anything odd happened while you have used that thing? Like a fire appearing, gusts of wind, thunder, ice?" Ruby asked while doing some odd motions with her hands. "Uh…no…well it did kill the snake that swords couldn't scratch…" Naruto said with his finger up and head leaned to the left slightly. "A-ha!" Ruby shouted and hit her closed fist at her palm. "So you are an O.P.T.!" Ruby said pointing at Naruto accusingly. Naruto looked surprised by her accusment, "O.P.T.?" Naruto asked again confused. "O-part Tactician, a person who can use raw spirit energy and use O-parts!" Ruby said. Naruto looked again confused, "Haaa? That's it? I'd rather be a Shinobi than some stupid Optimist." Naruto said pouting about being some stupid Optimist or something like that. "Optimist? No not an optimist you baka, I meant O.P.T. O-parts Tactician." Ruby explained the confused Naruto. She sighed.
"Being an O.P.T. only means you use O-parts and are able to use spirit energy, it wont change the fact that you are a ninja." She explained to Naruto. "Oh, okay, that I'm fine with." Naruto said smiling at his own stupidity. "So, you gonna tell me about this expedition thing?" Naruto asked while looking at the girl in front of him. "Oh, of course. Well as you know Shinobi have been long around and are considered the primary fighting force in the world right?" Ruby explained again accompanied with some odd hand gestures, Naruto nodded. " But to become a ninja you have to train from young age, and even still it is a hard path to becoming a strong one. So normal people who haven't trained themselves to their limits are nothing compared in fights against Shinobi, well a group of people got sick of being bullied by ninja and decided to find other ways to become strong, and after decades of research they found out about the ancient legends of humans wielding awesome powers. And how these ancient tools, O-parts could still be around in ancient ruins hidden around the world. So they set off to find these, another decade passed until one, this one, was found by them, they explored the ruins and found several of these O-parts, but they couldn't use them so they translated the ancient scripts inside the ruins that they had found as well, and it turns out you have to be born to become an O.P.T. so in a sense it was a failure as not every human could use these but still it was a magnificent discovery, but as they were about to return to the civilization they got attacked by monsters, and as they were not fighters they got all killed. Atleast according to the travel log, it tells how the snakes ate them slowly one after another until only one was alive, he wrote his last words here seconds before he died I think." Ruby said as she pulled out an odd looking square thing. Ruby opened the book and began flipping through the pages quickly finding the part she was looking for.
"Now, could you show me you're O-part and I will se if they already discovered its Effect." Ruby said looking up to Naruto from her sitting position on the ground with the book in her hands. "Sure." Naruto said and drew Zero out and handed it to her. "Could you go get the Pistol and the axe as well?" She asked pointing at the two weapons Baldy had used. Naruto nodded and picked them up taking them to her. "What's an 'Effect'" Naruto asked looking over her shoulder as she flipped through the pages filled with pictures and of different weapons. "When you use an O-part, you begin by releasing you're spirit, often with the command 'Spirit Release' to make it easier. The sign of a released spirit is that a blue mist-like aura surrounds the user. After that the user has to concentrate the spirit into the O-part activating it's Effect. Baldy over there had two O-parts, the Axe and the gun, I'm not sure about the axe as he didn't use it but it seemed like the guns Effect was shooting bullets of water by sucking moisture from the air." Ruby explained professor like to Naruto who understood it, Barely though. "It looks like this boomerang wasn't yet studied by the expedition group as there is no info on it, the Axe however has the effect of electricity and is a B-rank O-part." Ruby said and closed the book. "B-rank?" Naruto asked again. "O-parts are put into different classes depending on the power of the O-part, F is the lowest followed by E, D, C, B, A, S and SS. The power of an F class is merely a toy, but the power of these S Classes spoken in the Ancient tablets are so powerful that one could rule the world as it is right now with one." Ruby said trying to scare Naruto. "Rule the world huh… I'm going to conquer the world! I could avenge Jiichan with the power of an O-part…" Naruto said and thought took his Zero and lifted it up to his eye level and looked at it. Naruto was snapped out of his thoughts as Ruby closed the book with a bang. "So are we going?" Ruby said cheerfully. "Huh? Where?" Naruto asked confused by the girl. "To the ruins of course!" She shouted.
"Why should I come, I got what I wanted, info about Zero." Naruto said wondering if she would care about his opinion. "But…but you can't leave me… are you willing to let a little girl like me travel alone in a dangerous place like this?" Ruby said trying to look little and helpless making Naruto sweatdrop. "How the hell did you even get that book?" Naruto asked, "Wasn't it with the guy who got killed?" Naruto asked accusingly. "I got it in the mail from my father who found it, quickly after that there are these rumors about him dying, but that can't be true." She said, the last part to her self for the most part. Naruto was meanwhile using her distraction to try and sneak away from the 'troublesome woman', somewhere, someplace Shikamaru sneezed waking him up from his daydreams also making his teacher notice he had been sleeping, so in other words, Troublesome… "Hey where do you think you are going?!" Ruby shouted and ran after Naruto who was almost out of the danger zone already, however he didn't move to fast and was caught by the older and taller girl. "Come on… it wont take long…" She whined making Naruto sighed in frustration. "How long?" Naruto asked while sighing again in defeat. Ruby jumped in the air and shouted, "Yes!" She hugged him and thanked. ""Thankyou, thankyou,thankyou!" she shouted while Naruto tried to wrestle her off. He took her arms of him and jumped back away from her. "How long will it take?" Naruto asked professionally, being a Shinobi required being able to negotiate about money.
"A few days…" Ruby said back to normal. Naruto nodded, "What should I expect on this mission, bandits, thugs, ninjas or more of those goons like earlier?" Naruto asked. "Um… a little bit of everything is possible I guess… and some snakey monsters are said to live there." She said hoping Naruto wouldn't be tempted to turn down the request. "Hm, I'll say its high C rank so about ten thousand Ryo." Naruto said deep in thought, Ruby nodded and began digging her backpack for her wallet, she pulled it out and opened it, after a few moments she turned to him, "I Have eight thousand ryo I can pay with, the rest is for supply's for later." Ruby said hopefully. "Hmm, well alright…" Naruto nodded. " Well, you lead the way." Naruto said and stretched his arms because of the boring talking. "Yes sir!" She said and began marching like a civilian would trying to impersonate a soldier making Naruto sigh again. "Women are troublesome…" he said and followed after.
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After a few hours of slow paced walk, Ruby is a civilian much the Shinobi Naruto's displeasure, they arrived at a huge monument made out of stone.
"Whoa… it's bigger than I expected…" Naruto said looking upwards at the tall stone figure. " This is the gate, it is closed according to the journal. But they found a secret passageway that with they got inside. It's a few hundred yards to the left from here..." Ruby said with the book open while pointing to the left, where thick spiky rose bushes grew. "Uh…ladies first?" Naruto said glancing at the large, poisonous looking thorns, with vary eyes. "What! Nononono… you're my protector. You're the one supposed to go headfirst into danger…" Ruby said looking at the thorn bushes thinking what it would do to her skin, or hair… "sigh Oh well, might as well try it…" Naruto said and drew Zero of his back and took a comfortable position, he reached back and gathered as much power in his hand as possible and threw his hand forward sending Zero with blurring speeds into the bush. Swish Swish chok Zero cut two thick vines but only embedded itself deep into the third. "No, No! you're doing it wrong! You're supposed to release you're spirit and then activate the effect, otherwise it's just like throwing a normal boomerang!" Ruby lectured while waving around several fans with the kanji's for 'Baka' and 'wrong' on them.
A vein appeared on Naruto's head, "Shaddap! If you're so good why don't you try it yourself!" Naruto shouted back. "Well go get it for me…" Ruby said while crossing her arms defiantly. "Whatever…" Naruto mumbled and walked to the bush and drew Zero out of the thick vine. Naruto replaced Zero on his back and did a few handseals, Serpent, Tiger, Monkey, Boar, Horse Deep inhale Tiger: "Katon:Goukakyuu no Jutsu!!" Naruto's voice boomed as he exhaled a humongous fireball that headed straight towards the vine bushes, hitting and lighting it on fire. Ruby stood there with her jaw on the ground, she slowly picked it up and walked to Naruto. "BAKA!!" She shouted and hit him over the head, hard. "Itai…why'do hit me for?!" Naruto shouted back. "Well, well, you can't like burn those vines down! You might harm the ruins!" Ruby shouted. "Haaa? The only part of the ruins exposed to the fire is the wall, which is solid rock! It'll hold." Naruto said and continued to look at the massive 'bonfire' if you may. A few hours later the Fire died down as it began raining, Naruto thought it was odd as he had gotten used to the dry climate of the desert already but Ruby seemed to enjoy it fairly well. Naruto looked up at the sky filled with dark clouds and sighed. At days like these he and Jiichan used to eat Dango at his office and look for lighting bolts in the sky. He sighed and stood up from his sitting place under the cover of the gate, there was a small roof-thingy coming out from the wall next to the gate, presumably for cover for travelers during days like these. Naruto shed a few tears as he remembered the time he had gotten hit by a small lightning when he had reached his Dango stick out the window to point at a lighting bolt, Jiichan had freaked out so much though Naruto had just gotten a little shocked and was perfectly fine the next day, Naruto heard Ruby come walking towards him so he dried the tears quickly and took a deep breath.
Time for a second try. Naruto walked to the smoking ashes of the vines and drew Zero. "?" Ruby looked at Naruto as he drew the boomerang and took again a comfortable position, Naruto relaxed his arm and looked to where to throw, there were a few more vines in the way that needed to be taken care of. "Hiii-ya!" Naruto's voice boomed as he let the boomerang fly, again the 'doubling speed' didn't come to work but the Zero flew at high speeds and cut its way through the already slightly burned vines like a knife through hot butter. "Whoa!!" Ruby squealed in awe as zero came flying back at the same speed it had left Naruto's grip. As Naruto caught it a powerful wind blew at him from the after effect of Zero's flight. Naruto looked at the work and nodded, "This'll do fine I think." Naruto said and put Zero on his back and began walking through the ashes of the burned vines, Ruby following shortly after, though she had to change her sandals for her rubber boots, as she didn't want them to be ruined. They walked through the ashes along side the wall for a few ten-twenty minutes until they arrived at where the Journal said the door was, it was marked by an odd symbol. Ruby took out the book and began reading and mumbling incoherent words as she did some odd stuff to the symbol, after a minute the door opened followed by a; "Yes! I'm good!" from Ruby. Naruto looked into the opening and frowned, "You wouldn't happen to have light with you?" Naruto said pointing into the devouring darkness. Ruby nodded a no and took a look into the darkness, she shivered as the darkness seemed to almost devour her. "Oh well…" Naruto said and looked around for something to burn, he found a few still dry wines, he took his kunai and cut of the thorns and binded them together and threw the thing on his back. "C'mon." Naruto said and walked into the darkness with the hesitant Ruby following. Naruto put the binded pile of vines down and took two, did a familiar set of seals and blew the tips on fire, it took some patience as the vines were slightly moist. After he had successfully lit both he gave the other to Ruby and threw the ret of the vines back on his back.
"Lets go…" Naruto said and began leading the way through the dark corridor.
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After a few minutes of walking through the darkness, both upwards and downwards and at some places it turned left and at other places the tunnel turned right. Finlly when there came a light at the end of the tunnel Ruby shouted in joy and began running towards the light, with Naruto behind her ready for anything. "Waah… the fresh air feels nice after that dark tunnel…" Ruby said and took several deep breaths with joy evident on her face as she fell down on her knees, Naruto instead looked around. They were in… a grassy plain, that seemingly continued for forever into the horizon, and behind them was the wall from before, only the exit from the tunnel and a new gate were on this side of the wall. "What now?" Naruto asked looking down on Ruby.
"Uh… wait let me see…" She said after looking at Naruto confused, she pulled out the book from her backpack and began flipping through the pages until she found the place she had left her mark on. "Umm… it says that they went in through the gate by the smaller gate, it has corroded open so we should be able to get in…" Ruby said and pointed at a small door in the idle of the gate. Naruto nodded and began walking towards it, Ruby put the journal back into her backpack and ran after him. Naruto looked at the rusted metal door that was shut in front of him with curious eyes, Ruby ran up to him slightly winded. "Didn't you say it was open?" Naruto asked and Ruby nodded looking at the door. "So, this means somebody has closed the door, it might have been the expedition guys but it might as well be somebody hostile, remember baldy? He had an O-part…" Naruto said and looked at Ruby. Ruby nodded slowly and mentally prepared herself for anything. "I'm gonna open it now…" Naruto said and took a step back, Naruto took a step forwards and kicked the door open with a loud wham. The door hit the ground and did a low bang, Naruto winced and walked over the door, he looked around the inside.
"Whoaa………" Naruto said looking around in awe, and as Ruby followed inside she repeated after him. They were surrounded by tall white buildings that seemed to be completely untouched by the forces of erosion. The buildings sported a few cracks here and there but nothing more. "So… where now?" Naruto asked looking back at Ruby after finally getting over the awe, "Huh?" Ruby said snapping out herself from awe. "OH, uh… I guess we look for any special kind of symbols or O-parts lying around, lets meet back here in…um how about half an hour?" Ruby said thinking with her finger pointing at her chin. "What about enemies? Somebody might be here…" Naruto said looking around ready to strike on a heartbeats notice. Ruby thought about it and nodded. "Heheh… shoulda thoughta that…" Ruby said with her hand behind her head and her tongue out. "Well lets start here…" Naruto said pointing to his right, Ruby nodded and Naruto began walking along with Ruby.
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They searched around for a few hours, they noted that the ruins had been once a city, as there were several smaller houses with beds and such inside. And on the sides of the streets there were shops, at least they looked like shops due to the stone counters. They found absolutely no O-parts around, it made kind of sense considering the expeditors had made records and picked along with them all the O-parts they could find. Also they did not find any sort of Symbols or texts on the walls or on the ground, Ruby said that it was odd while Naruto waved it off as that nobody would put symbols on the walls, that's called graffiti, and judging by the people back in Konoha, grafitti wasn't accepted. They continued the search until they found their way a large building with several carvings of Lions and Eagles, the house looked more 'royal' when compared to the others so Ruby had decided that it was important to check it out, Naruto merely nodded and followed after. Inside they found some stone tablets with some kind of writing on them, luckily Ruby could read them, though she said she had no experience in real archeology other than that her father, who was a Treasure Hunter, when Naruto asked about him she told that he used to talk to her and tell her stories about his adventures and the ruins he had visited. Naruto asked where he was now to which she seemed to gloom down, she told that he supposedly dead according to a rumor, but she was going to prove them wrong and she was searching for him. They walked back to outside the walls and sat down on the grass. Ruby began to decipher the Tablets and Naruto counted how many vines they had used to keep a light in the corridor.
"Three, we used both three vines to keep a fire, when we leave back we can spare by only using one at a time so we have…" Naruto said and began counting the rest of the vines he had brought. "46 vines to use for a camp fire." Naruto said and took a vine and snapped it in half, he did it again with another one until he had a sufficient amount of stuff to burn, then he cleared some room on the grassy ground by ripping grass away o it wouldn't catch on fire. Naruto placed the vines in a camp-fiery position and did his new favorite Jutsu to lit it up. Naruto looked over at Ruby who was deep buried in reading the stone tablets that Naruto had carried back here. "Hey, you got any food?" Naruto said as his stomach growled loudly. "Hmmh? What?" Ruby said looking up as simultaneously her stomach growled equally loudly as Naruto's stomach had. "Uh…" Ruby said blushing out of embarrassment. "…" Naruto was silent wondering if she was okay, her face was getting pretty red. "Um, food, right." Ruby said and dived to her backpack, Naruto looked at her as she dug through it and picked out two silverish things. Ruby threw one to Naruto and opened it somehow and began eating the contents. Naruto caught it and began looing at the silver colored thing, he looked at Ruby and mimicked her actions, he got it open after a few tries and sniffed at the thing inside. "What is this?" Naruto asked eyeing the brownish thing with what looked like wheat flakes stuck in it. "Energy bar, it's good, eat it." Ruby said chomping on her bar with a smile. Naruto lifted his eyebrow and took a careful bite.
"Hmm… not bad, I think I like it." Naruto said and took another bite, this time bigger. "It's filled with healthy stuff so it'll keep you from getting hungry and it gives you lotsa energy…" Ruby said pumping her bicep.
Naruto nodded and took another bite again. They both ate quickly and then resumed to whatever they were doing, Ruby reading and Naruto began looking into the horizon of grassy field. "I wonder what's there…" Naruto said and stood up. Naruto walked away from their camp to do some throwing training. After getting enough distance in his mind, Naruto pulled out Zero and lightly threw it, it flew some distance and then came back like a boomerang it is. Naruto continued throwing with both hands and tried different styles, from above, or from left with his right hand or vice versa. Naruto noted that it didn't fly like a regular Fuuma shuriken but it flew slightly with a curve. "No wonder my throws have been so bad until now…" Naruto said remembering the time he missed the big snake. Naruto corrected his throw and immediately it came better flying back, instead of having to take it with his hand taking the impact full on Naruto could now catch it as it flew by him on it's back edge. Naruto threw tried some fancy tricks like making it spin in flight or make it change directions in mid-flight like with a Fuuma Shuriken but found it surprisingly hard due to its curved flight, well some practice would fix that.
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"So they died of a disease that made everybody gouge their intestines out…" Ruby said and put down the stone block carefully. Ruby stood up and looked around, Naruto was nowhere to be seen. "N-Naruto…?" Ruby asked looking around slightly afraid. "Na-ruto!!" she shouted hoping he would answer. "What?" Naruto shouted back from the plains, now shrouded by darkness. Ruby looked around to see Naruto but was unable to due to the light of the campfire. Naruto walked to the light scaring her in the process. "What?" Naruto said stretching his arms.
"You disappeared…" Ruby said and motioned for Naruto to sit down. Naruto did as she motioned because he was tired. "I've read the stone talets and according to them the ruins were once called Avalon, and this Avalon was the capital of this continent in the past until all its citizens were affected by a plague that killed them all, also it tells that in the past everybody could apparently use O-parts but it seems like the Genes used to operate O-parts have been lost in most people nowadays." Ruby said in lecture mode while Naruto forced himself to listen. "The person who wrote this had locked himself into the house we were earlier in to keep the disease from getting him…" Ruby said while looking into the fir thoughtfully. "Who're you?" Naruto said surprising Ruby.
"What? Naruto you okay?" Ruby asked while Naruto looked out from the ring of light provided by the fire. "I know you are there, I can both smell you and hear you breath." Naruto said still looking lazily out into the darkness. "Hmm, very well, I was not expecting youngsters like you to be able notice me…" A voice spoke from out side the ring of light provided by the fire making Ruby gasp in surprise. An old man stepped in front of them with a certain step, "I am Amidaba, and I live here protecting and investigating the ruins. Now that I have introduced myself, shouldn't you do the same, it is considered rude to ask ones name and not give ones own…" the old man, calling himself Amidaba said with a smug-ish smile.
"Uzumaki Naruto. The pleasure is all yours." Naruto said still keeping his hand ready to pull out Zero. "Ruby Crescent, it is a pleasure to meet you." Ruby said politely while elbowing Naruto. "hohoho…The youngsters of the world never change huh… so now that we know each other tell me, what are you doing here, not trying to steal some treasures are you?" Amidaba said looking at hem with an accusing eye. "Partially yes, we're here for information as well…" Naruto said and stood up, not once letting his eyes of Amidaba. "Ho… partially yes? Well I'm sorry but I am giving you the choice to either leave or the beaten up and thrown out, Uzumaki and Crescent, Crescent?" Amidaba said first looking ready to fight and then thoughtful. "Tell me, Ruby was it?" Amidaba asked looking at Ruby who nodded slowly.
"What is you're fathers name?" Amidaba asked looking slightly intrigued. "Um… Jack Crescent." Ruby said hoping they wouldn't have to fight. "Jack… thought so… tell me, how is he?" Amidaba said sitting down around the fire along with the two, Ruby looked sad while Naruto didn't let his guard down. "This man, walked right next to me, and yet I didn't notice until he was within 50 meters….Who is he?" Naruto thought looking at the old person in front of him verily. "My father, Jack, disappeared some time ago… some rumors say he is dead, but he can't be. I just know he is alive somewhere…" Ruby told with sadness evident in her voice. "I see…Jack is gone as well…" Amidaba said, barely whispering the last part, Ruby didn't hear, but Naruto did, however he chose to remain silent about it. "So, what now, are you going to knock us out and throw us out from these ruins?" Naruto said weaving his question into the syrup of sarcasm. "Hmm Oh yes, are you here to take something or do simply search for information?" Amidaba asked while standing up. "I would like to know more about these ruins…" Ruby said looking at the large walls surrounding the ancient city. Naruto stood up and looked at Amidaba. "I don't really care, I' looking for power to take revenge, and to fulfill my dream." Naruto said, knowing Amidaba would fight him to protect the O-parts, which he knew she was protecting. "I see. Well in that case it seems like we'll have to fight. I cannot let you steal ancient relics and simply waltz out of here to spread chaos." Amidaba said with Fire burning in her eyes. "I won't go easy on you because you're an old man." Naruto said and jumped back a few meters. "hoho… don't worry I am not an old man, I am on old woman." Amidaba said laughing.
"You're… a woman?" Naruto asked shocked, accidentally letting his guard down. Amidaba saw this and reached her right palm out in a flash, Naruto jumped to his left as the place where he had stood was suddenly hit by a powerful force, pulling the rocks he had stood on deep into the ground making them crack. Naruto looked surprised and looked back at Amidaba, her palm was glowing with a mysterious seal on it.
"Huh!?" Naruto shouted as his instincts screamed at him to jump again, Naruto knowing from experience trusted them and jumped to his left again and did the ram seal, focused chakra all over his body, making time seem to slow down as his reaction speed and muscles were powered with the current of Chakra, This was Shunshin, a technique where the user forces large amounts of raw chakra into his body to enhance movement speed for a few seconds, making it appear that they teleported from one placed to another if the ran. "What is this?" Amidaba thought aloud as the chakra outlined Naruto as he stood there. "Shunshin No Jutsu." Naruto whispered and dashed for the Old woman at his full speed. Amidaba gulped, one second Naruto was there, and the other he wasn't, what was he? Naruto appeared above Amidaba ready to jackhammer her in the head, luckily for her she had her right hand close enough to activate her O-part. "Got you!" Naruto shouted and hit at her with all his might, only for the blow to be stopped in mid-way to her, not like it hit something like a wall, but more as if it had hit some thick pudding, simply slowing down. "Oh?" Amidaba said confident, activating her O-part again, this time sending Naruto flying away.
Naruto had a second to flip around in mid-air using the finest acrobatics before he hit the wall, he absorbed the impact to his feet and used his favorite Taijutsu 'technique', the leg Spring, where he absorbs a force and uses it like a spring to bounce back with even more force. "HAAA!" Naruto shouted and flew back at her, kicking at the wall hard enough to make a dent in it. "?!?" Amidaba was almost caught off guard by the aerial maneuver but was in time again to activate the 'pudding shield' to stop Naruto. Naruto hit the 'pudding shield with his elbow, the shield absorbed the blow again and Amidaba used the powerful unseen force throw again. This time Naruto was to dazed from the hit with the shield to do a mid-air recovery and hit the wall with his back making a crack appear as Naruto coughed blood up. Naruto fell down sliding across the wall with his back falling to the ground with his knees giving after, making him fall on his stomach.
Ruby looked in horror as the two fought, Amidaba had clearly the advantage of experience on her side, Coupled with her mysterious force field powers she was a dangerous opponent. Naruto was however quick and nimble, capable of doing split second life saving decisions. As Naruto hit the wall Ruby gasped and was about to run to him but was stopped by something, something inside her simply told her to stay away form him. Amidaba slowly walked towards Naruto and looked down on him. "You fought probably the hardest if counting all the people trying to come here before, but in real world standards, you have still a looong way to go." Amidaba said still walking closer to Naruto, who began laughing. "Hahahaspit Is that so… well, why don't you teach me more about this, 'real world standard'." Naruto said standing up slowly while spitting out the blood from his mouth. "You can still stand? You are not an ordinary ruins thief are you…" Amidaba said slightly impressed. "Ruin thief?" Naruto repeated mockingly. "No way. Shunshin no Jutsu." Naruto said and disappeared again. Appearing above left to Amidaba. "Smile, Katon: GOUKAKYUU NO JUTSU!!!" Naruto shouted flashing through the seals taking a deep inhale and finally breathing out a large fire ball, Naruto hit the ground rolling around to lessen the impact and using the force to stand up ina smooth movement. The fire died out quickly as the force field thing made it somehow disappear. "Jutsu? No wonder you are so nimble, even for a youngster. You are a Ninja." Amidaba said with something unknown in her voice.
"Yeah…" Naruto said and reached for Zero. "And…" He slowly drew it, he could do it now, he knew it, this was the feeling form before; A mixture of despair and hate, no scratch hate, fighting will, if you could call it that. "I'm also an O.P.T." Naruto said drawing Zero out completely throwing it in the air making it spin around a few times before falling back in his hand. Amidaba scrunched her eyes, even if he had an O-part and he had the potential to use it, it didn't necessarily mean he had the skill to use it. As Naruto drew back Zero reading to throw the white-bluish glowing mist thing began to condense around him. Howecer unlike the last time in the desert, the mist didn't simply surround him, this time it began moving outwards, covering more and more of the area in the glowing mist. "What huge spirit energy…" Amidaba said backing slowly from the approaching mist, she looked up to Naruto, holding Zero in his right hand behind his back, with more and more of the mist condensing into the Boomerang. "What the…?" Amidaba spoke out, only realizing now that she needed to put up her Force field if she wanted to live. She pumped all her Spirit energy into it and prepared mentally for the coming. "Haaaa…" Naruto groaned finally feeling ready to throw.
"Take, THIS!" Naruto shouted his voice roaring like the thunder as he threw Zero. As soon as it left his hand, at already incredible speed, the power and speed of its flight doubled, along with the edges of the Boomerang began shining with the spirit energy loaded into it. Amidaba gasped as Zero flew towards her, making a vacuum behind it due to all the force in the throw, she concentrated every last ounce of her spirit energy into the barrier as Zero closed in. The force of the two powers clashing made the air itself ripple as the two fought for dominance, slowly the boomerang began to lose its power as the barrier died down. The Barrier fell with a loud boom sending a shockwave, Zero, with its last amount of energy flew back into Naruto's hand. Naruto panted as he felt more drained than ever before. That mist thing had sapped his stamina like nothing before. Though if it had hit that hag, she woulda died in a heartbeat. "Fuck…" Naruto swore as he tried to take step, finding no more energy left in his body.
Amidaba, stood up slowly, the shockwave from the barriers fall had taken a toll on her, though compared to what the Boomerang would have done, it was a small price to pay. "That O-part can't be more than a C rank and yet he broke the strongest barrier my Rainbow did… he almost won over an S rank with a Crank…" Amidaba thought as she walked slowly towards Naruto. She stopped ten meters away form Naruto and remained there. "You fought good kid, but not good enough. I win. And I don't want to see you here again." Amidaba said looking at Naruto with Vary eyes. "Yeah…but can ya let Ruby stay here, she won't steal anything, that I can assure." Naruto said slowly as he raised his eyes. Amidaba gasped slightly, his eyes were Blue, but with a slight tint of red trying to fight its way in. the red disappeared in a few seconds though. "Sure, she can stay here, if she wants, then I'll teach her about these ruins…" Amidaba said reassuring him. "Good, wouldn't be able to stand myself if I ruined her dream anyways…" Naruto said chuckling.
"Do you want to get stronger, in soul, mind or body, or do you simply want stronger weapons to fulfill you're dream?" Amidaba asked looking at the hunching form of Naruto. "I… want to be strong in every way, so that I can surpass every one before me." Naruto said with a grin. "Hmm… then is suggest that after you recover you head for the Water Country, find a man named Kirin there. If you succeed in getting him to teach you, then you would gain strength." Amidaba said. Naruto nodded slowly as the world became dark.
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Naruto groggily opened his eyes, birds were chirping around him, a river was nearby, he looked around slowly, he was in the shade of a tree, next to the afore mentioned river. Naruto looked around and saw the wall from before, though he was on the outside this time, he slowly looked at where the hidden passageway had been and found that all the vines had regrown back over night. At least he thought it was over night… how long had he been out? Well no matter… Naruto sat up with a groan, ha felt something in his lap and looked down, to see Zero in there. "How nice of them to let me keep Zero…" Naruto mumbled and crawled to the river and washed his face. He looked at the clear sky and the sun, judging by its still low position and the chirping birds it was morning, also the air was very moist. "So… what now… I got my butt kicked by an grandma, heh it seems like old people are my weakness." Naruto said sarcastically to himself while clenching his fist so hard it was almost white.
"Water country Kirin huh…oh well, I might as well check it out…" Naruto said and stood up and picked Zero and putting it in his belt under his coat. Naruto began walking along side the river until he saw a fish which he proceeded to kill with a kunai, he knew to take the bending of light into account so he got it with the first try. Naruto got some wood and started a fire with Katon: Goukakyuu no Jutsu down sized to not burn down the entire forest. He cooked the fish and ate it, not sure whether he was enjoying the silence or if he was missing company. He ate quickly and put out the fire and Continued to walk. He had a long way to go.
After a few hours of this he began running as he go bored already, so he pretended to be shadowing somebody or being chased by enemy ninja, or vice versa. Naruto spurted often and then did a jump to see how far away he could go and other childish games, though after he tried to do a combination of a cartwheel and a somersault ending in him falling on his head he resumed to simply running along the road. As he had no idea where he was he would need to follow the road until he came to a city or village an from there on plan ahead. As darkness fell and the sun went down Naruto walked to the forest next to the road and collected some wood for a fire and the went to hunt, he returned with a rabbit a few minutes later which he proceeded to cook and eat. After a rest to let the food digest he searched for a place to train.
Naruto found a lake on which he trained the Katon: Goukakyuu for a few hours, after that he trained throwing Zero around again with both hands and in different angles and styles. After that Naruto trained Taijutsu on the poor nearby trees that pretty much held about three hits and then broke down. Naruto sat down and sighed. "I need to get stronger… but this wont do any good, and it'll take a while to find this Kirin, even if I find him in the first place. Naruto sighed and trained on the basic Tekken style kata they taught at the academy. Naruto sat down after finishing and furrowed his brows trying to remember anything useful from his academy years.
"Ninjutsu, Genjutsu and Taijutsu… Tai is trained by doing Kata and bodily exercises to strengthen the body, Genjutsu is Illusions and mind control, though that wasn't taught in the academy and anyhow they wouldn't have taught it to me properly, so basically anything that was supposedly taught specially to me is rubbish meant to confuse and weaken me, while stuff that was taught to the entire class is reliable. Nin is the basic Ninja skill trained by repeating and training on using the Jutsu and training on the Chakra capacity and control. I've trained Taijutsu for a few hours, and the Katon I've been training some time now, so that leaves to Genjutsu, Chakra amount and control…" Naruto thought scratching the back of his head.
"Didn't they once take me after class to teach me about Chakra control with another few guys… something about a leaf…gah." Naruto said trying to remember the past. Naruto took a nearby leaf in his hand and looked at it with thoughtful eyes. "Something to do with Chakra…" Naruto thought aloud looking at the leaf, he did a half ram seal and conjured up some Chakra, then he directed it to his palm. By the time the Chakra was in his palm Naruto was sweating from concentrating so hard. "So this is what they meant… maybe if I do it continuously it'll be easier… though I don't see a point in moving Chakra around inside you…" Naruto said and threw away the leaf and stood up. Naruto took a low stance that was often used to relax the body, Then he did a full ram seal and concentrated on the chakra already in hi palm. "Whoa… the difference between using one or two hands for the seal is this big!" Naruto thought as he moved the Chakra inside him from one hand to the other, and from there to his foot, and from there to his chest. Though it was much easier than before, Naruto was still having trouble doing it, he lost on several occasions concentration making the chakra disappear forcing him to conjure up more. After a few hours of testing between one handed seals and two handed seals Naruto had an idea. "How about Katon with one hand?" Naruto said and began thinking, what would be the one handed Serpent seal. In the two handed you had both hand together with the fingers interlocked, so in the one handed, you had one hand in front of you with the fingers apart in a half closed fist… Naruto put his hand like that and began channeling Chakra, and as he predicted, the Chakra reacted the same way as it did with the two handed.
Though it took only fifteen more minutes to get the chakra conjured up. But that was a minor problem that would be solved with time and training, it had taken him half an hour on the first time conjuring Chakra with the full seal in the academy so Naruto reasoned that he had done fairly well. Next was the Tiger seal, "…uh…" Naruto grunted. The Tiger seal was exactly like the one handed ram when on one hand. "So… whats the difference…wait, the ram is held in front of you're stomach, while the tiger is held in parallel with ones face. That's might be it…" Naruto tried it, and sure it worked. Instead of channeling Chakra like the Ram, it did like the Tiger. Though again it took almost an hour to get it right.
"Yoshi… two down, five to go-" Naruto was about to say but fell asleep instead. He had forgotten it was dark already and he had trained himself to exhaustion not only by running mist of the day but only the Chakra training, and the New seal experimenting. "Zzzz…" Naruto snored…
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"Waah!!" Ruby woke up with a scream. "pant the same Nightmare again… Papa, be safe…" Ruby prayed silently and lie back down to sleep, sleep claimed her again in mere seconds.
Abidaba sighed, they were in here house inside the city walls, Ruby had decided to stay even though she was worried about Naruto. "Uzumaki Naruto…" Amidaba repeated in her mind. Something about the name didn't sound right… She closed her eyes and let it be, if there was something about Uzumaki Naruto then she would remember it in time.
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"Hello my fellow members…" A raspy voice in a dark cage sounded, the figure who had spoken didn't look human, as he was in black and white. Soon nine other similar figures appeared in the dark scenery. "Greetings leader." All the others spoke, in equally raspy voices. "Now that our organization is complete, let us reveal out plan for world dominance…" The figure identified as the leader spoke. "In this world there are great beings of power known as Bijuu. The tailed beasts, there are nine in total of them, and we need five of them for our plan. You see, there is this ancient relic known as the 'Ancient Illusionary Dragon Five Consuming Seals' that has the power to extract and draw power from the Bijuu. There exist two such relics in the world, one is in our hands, and the other has not been found yet. The one we have needs the one, three, five and seven tailed to become complete, and when it does become complete we will be given the ultimate power." The Leader explained clearly. The other members made no reactions except for one.
"What about the rest? The two, four, six ,eight and nine tailed beasts?" Asked the raspy yet feminine and snakelike voice. "The relic we have needs the 'odd' numbered beasts, and the other one will use 'even' numbered ones. The last one, the mighty god of hellfire, Kyuubi no Kitsune, well be needed for completion in both, so the one who gathers all the odd or evens and the nine tailed ones will rule the world. After we have the 'odds' and Kyuubi collected we will begin to collect the 'evens' and fuse them to Ancient Illusionary Dragon Five Consuming Seals to form one, perfect one." The leader explained again. All the members talked amongst themselves until they all silenced. The leader stepped forward.
"Number one, Zero. Accepts." Leader said. "Number two, Seiryū accepts yeah." One said stepping forward. "Number three, Santai accepts." One said. "Number four, Suzaku accepts." A calm voice said. "Number five, Nanju accepts." A tall one said with excitement evident in his voice. "Number six, Gyokunyo accepts." a low hunching figure said. "Number seven, Byakko accepts." A feminine voice said. "Number eight, Genbu accepts." A figure with a large flytrap like head said. "Number nine, Hokuto accepts." Another one said. "Number ten, Kūchin accpets…" the Snake like person from before said. "Then it is decided. Move out and find the odd tailed Beasts and keep the original plan still in use. Move out." Leader said and disappeared. Most members followed until only one was left: the snake like person. "This power will be mine…kukukukukuku…"
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Naruto turned around the fish above the fire with a hungry grin. He was ready to eat a cow if he was given one. Naruto lifted the gutted fish from the fire and took a sniff. "It's done!" Naruto shouted and took a bite and began gladly eating. After gulping it down in five seconds flat Naruto took a sip from his water bottle. Naruto wiped his mouth with his hand and stood up, he emptied the water bottle on the fire putting it out and then walked to the river and filled his bottle again. "Yoshi, time to get back on the road." Naruto said and walked back to the road and began running. After a few hours he held a break at the shadow of a tree next to the road. "Meh… where the heck am I? I suck at navigating…" Naruto mumbled as he took a swig from his water bottle. Naruto stood back up and walked back to the road. "Might as well walk if I don't know where the heck I am…" Naruto said shrugging to himself and began walking along the road in a leisure pace. After half an hour Naruto simply began running again as walking was to slow.
"Odd…I haven't meet anybody in a while now and I've been walking this road for a few days already. You would think that you would meet at least one person…" Naruto thought aloud looking both far forwards the road and back to behind him looking for anybody. He saw nobody around which concerned him slightly, Naruto silently picked up the pace he was running at, for reasons unknown even to him. After running for a while Naruto noticed something, a shadow seemed to be following and watching him from the side of the road, hidden in the thick plant life. Naruto showed no signs of noticing the shadower as he knew, that if he acted, then so would the follower. Naruto silently picked up the ace again, lifting it from a light jog into a full blown sprint, a Shinobi of his level could almost run on par with a horse when using chakra so Naruto was fairly confident in his chances. The person running after Naruto was able to keep up the same speed as Naruto while remaining relatively hidden for a while, but soon slowed the pace to breathe, Naruto had two choices, A) attack B) Continue running. Naruto weighted the choices and decided to simply run. After a while of sprinting to put distance between himself and the follower Naruto slowed his pace back to a light jog, as he did he noticed that three new shadowy persons followed him this time. Naruto sighed and stopped running abruptly, simply standing in the middle of the road, waiting for his followers to reveal themselves. Naruto noted that the followers did not show themselves but chose to continue to watch Naruto. Naruto took a step forwards and acted as if he was scared that something was around him. "W-who's t-there?" Naruto asked, faking fear. No answer came. Naruto sighed and continued to jog along the road, after a while of jogging Naruto came to a sign that said; 'Asther, The town where strangers are welcomed with a hug.' With a few paintings of happy people around the text. Naruto squinted his eyes suspiciously:
"Something is not right…" Naruto said and opted to walk now, as he moved slower he had more time to look around, trying to get clues of his stalkers. Naruto noted that when walking, the stalkers could remain unnoticed by even the best of Shinobi unless they had a clue that they were there. "Enemy ninja? Hunter-nins?" Naruto whispered barely audible even to himself. Naruto began a light jog again simply so that he would be able to notice them better, and soon the road began changing, first it came to a crossroad where only one sign was, that like the one before said: 'Asther, The town where strangers are welcomed with a hug.'. Naruto stopped there and looked around carefully. The other to roads, which were in a fork formation, with the road he came from in the middle and road to 'Asther' as the 'handle' of the fork. Nobody was around, no birds, no animals. Even the plant life seemed somehow, quiet, the wind hadn't blown in a long time either… Naruto shrugged it off but remained on guard anyway as he walked along with the to Asther, as he neared the town a smell reached his nostrils, it smelled bad, overpoweringly so but Naruto kept on walking. "This smell… it's not blood but…" Naruto thought aloud but didn't finish his sentence.
"It's somehow familiar, I just don't know from where…" Naruto said with his right hand lowering itself near to the knee holster. Something was definitely up. Naruto walked for a minute until the town gate came to his view; The gate was merely a decorative monument as there was no wall to speak off in the first place, as Naruto closed the smell got stronger, and Naruto began getting more and more worried, he couldn't go back as it seemed, as the stalkers were all behind him, barely in the shadows not giving a good look on them.
Naruto calmly walked through the gate and looked around the city: It was a small farmer village with randomly placed houses coupled with several windmill and watermills. Though Naruto had smelled some blood already he saw nothing, no red splashes, no dead people nor an signs of fighting. But neither did he see any human alive for that matter. "Hello, anybody here?!" Naruto shouted, no response, Naruto stood there anxiously when he heard a twig break behind him, Naruto spun around with his hand at the knee holster ready to kill, only to see a little girl there, she was maybe five or six and had brown hair in a ponytail. Also her clothes were blood red, and Naruto could smell that it was dried blood indeed. Naruto scanned around and walked up to her. "Are you alright?" Naruto asked worried. "Mama…" The girl voiced out before she passed out, Naruto catching her. "Hey! Hey! Are you okay?" Naruto shouted holding the girl in his arms.
"Guhahahah… she'll be fine… once she dies that is, oh doesn't she just look delicious, we musta missed her in the pile of bodies but that's fine… I'll just eat her now…" A strained low voice, Naruto jumped back and looked where form the voice had come from, what he saw scared him: a hunching middle aged man with a pale and rotting face stood there with a knife in his hand, reddened to the core already by blood. "What happened here?" Naruto asked the man, no ghoul would be more fitting to describe the thing in front of him, the man looked both malnourished and hungry and his clothes were nothing but rags. "Hey! There's more than one of them here!" The man squealed in joy noticing Naruto only now. "…" Naruto took a step back and placed the girl on his left shoulder and drew his kunai. Talking would be of no use to him. The Ghoulish man took a step but stopped as several other 'ghouls' came walking to where they were. "What's this? You trying to take her all to yourself, that's no fair." A woman-gone-ghoul said as she came walking, swinging at each step, Naruto saw why as her left foot had all but been chewed off. Naruto had to resist the urge to puke as he took another step back, hitting a wall behind him unfortunately. "What are they…" Naruto looked at the girl on his shoulder. "She's on the top of my priority list, get her safe." Naruto thought and looked around. The tallest building, a windmill that had no ways to get to the top looked good. Naruto put the kunai back into the holster and placed the girl on his shoulder onto her back so he could run better. Naruto freed one hand and did the half ram seal conjuring some chakra up. "Huh?" The ghouls voiced as Naruto dashed of, all but blurring from their view. Naruto ran towards the mill and jumped on top of a nearby building and jumped with all his might, he reached almost to the top, landing on the wall, Naruto began running up the wall, and unconsciously using the tree walk skill getting on top of the mill.
Naruto let out a sigh in relief as he put the girl down on the roof making sure she wouldn't fall even if she turned around or moved. Naruto drew Zero while holding his eyes closed. He would have to kill these people, no these Ghouls. Naruto jumped not even caring that he was falling from heights that could kill him, Naruto landed with a thump, kicking up some dust. "Huh?" The ghoul closest to him voiced before the top half of its head was chopped of by Naruto holding onto Zero like a sword. "You aren't humans anymore… thus I don't see why I can't just kill you." Naruto said noticing the Ghouls had not even reacted to the death of their kin. "mmm…food…" Murmured the pack of ghouls closing in on Naruto. Naruto Threw Zero from a low angle with little power making Zero fly upwards above the Ghouls. Serpent, Tiger, Monkey, Boar, Horse Inhale, Tiger;"Katon: Goukakyuu no Jutsu!" Naruto shouted exhaling a medium sized fire ball at the crowd of Ghouls closing in, the ghouls didn't even realize to didge and were gained bad burns, causing them all to double over in pain.
Zero reached the height of its flight and began flying back, towards Naruto, but suddenly changed its direction making it lodge into the back of a Ghouls head. Naruto redrew his kunai and spurted of towards the group of badly burned Ghouls and finished them all off. Naruto walked to the ghoul with its head splitten in two by Zero and lodged unceremoniously out. Naruto looked around and saw no more ghouls, he looked up to where the girl was and saw nothing.
"Be safe for a while okay…" Naruto said and dashed off. He ran around the village meeting random ghouls along the way that were all killed by Naruto. He continued like this until he came to what he thought was the Mayors house, it was the biggest and most decorated, and it certainly didn't look like no shrine. Naruto walked to the door and tried to open it. It was locked so he tried to forcefully push it in but couldn't, "Damn good door…" Naruto said and took a step back and kicked the door open. As the door came down Naruto heard a shout and saw something try to stab him. Naruto jumped back making the person trying to stab him miss. Naruto jumped back to where he was before the figure could react and took the knife in its hand and kicked the figure back in on swift movement. Naruto looked down on the assailant. It was a young man with blonde hair, he was built normally and had rather normal clothes. The man was shaking in fear as he looked at Naruto, unable to see his features due to the light coming from behind Naruto.
Naruto looked around seeing several other people, women and men, and a few children, around by the walls, clutching to each other as they waited for death to come. "Could somebody tell me, what the hell happened here?" Naruto asked looking around, as Naruto spoke the man he had kicked stopped shaking and looked confused. "Y-You're not one of them?" the man spoke slowly standing up. "Define them, if ya mean those no minded cannibals, then no, I am not one of them." Naruto said looking back behind him scanning for more ghouls. The man sighed in relief, as did all the people in the house. "Well it's a long story so come inside and lock the door." The blond man said. Naruto was about to nod but remembered the girl.
"Wait, there's this one girl still there I need to go get. Wait a second okay?" Naruto said and ran back with out letting the man even nod. Naruto dashed through the village, seeing no Ghouls, till he came to the Mill, where he spurted up the wall, this time not using chakra but only speed reaching up in a matter of seconds where he picked up the girl. Naruto took he in his arms 'bridal' style and jumped down, this time he used chakra to soften the landing, Naruto checked the girl incase she had woken up as he landed, she hadn't woken yet Naruto noted and began running back to the big house from earlier. Naruto ran inside and put the girl on the floor and walked to where the door had been.
"Maybe I shouldn't have kicked it…" Naruto said sweatdropping, not worrying about it he lifted it up to at least cover the door. Then he walked to the blond man and pointed at the girl. "Somebody know her?" Naruto asked simply. The man looked at her and nodded. "Her parents were killed already…" The blond man said making Naruto sigh. Naruto looked as an older woman picked the girl up and soothed her in her sleep, as she seemed to be having a nightmare. "Well could you tell me what happened here?" Naruto said sitting down. "Well…I…we…" the man tried to find fitting words. "One day…" An old man sitting in the shadow said, "They simply changed, it might have been yesterday or it might have been a month ago… we haven't been able to keep on track of time. As I said the changes began one day, they became more violent and began eating more meat, saying such things as 'I need it' and 'but it feels so good…', after a day or two they began attacking people, killing and eating them… even my wife, who was always so kind and gentle, became such, even though she is seventy-eight already she was once a shinobi and such… she killed a grown man in a second the she began eating him…" The man said hunching even deeper into the shadows. "…" The room was in silence.
"How many do you know were turned for certain? And do you know is there a cure?" Naruto asked, though he probably knew the answer for the second one. "Thirty, or so…" a woman said, holding onto a child. A man wearing a white long jacket, already tarnished by blood and dirt stood up,
"They, will never go back to as they once were…I did some research on one of them before they went rampage, the changes in both their brains and body are far to great." The man said, Naruto nodded, felling slightly better for killing those before, it had been the only choice. "And where are we, what country and province? I am lost and found my way here on luck." Naruto continued. "Fire country, northwestern province." The blond man said. "I am Hattori, the son of the now deceased mayor…" the blond man introduce himself offering a hand. "Uzumaki Naruto, nuke-nin of Konohagakure." Naruto said only to see their reaction. "Hmh, I understand why…" Hattori said and some of the villagers nodded. "The new Hokage, Godaime Koharu." Hattori said, spitting at Godaime on the floor. "Is a militaristic tyrant that will be the end of this country." Hattori said grimacing. "…" Naruto said nothing. After a while of silence Naruto stood up and walked to the door. "12 down, 28 to go." Naruto said as he lifted the door so he could exit. "Huh?" Hattori said confused.
"I've killed a few already, I'm going to finish the rest. Keep them safe here until I come back, Okay?" Naruto said with a determined look, some of the people looked awed of his bravery and some looked ready to die. Naruto didn't wonder why, their family had either been killed and eaten or had killed and eaten others. Naruto placed the door back in front of the opening and walked back towards the rest of the houses in the village.
"Ghuhahaahaaa…" A ghouled villager said walking in front of Naruto with a crazed look, and a missing left hand for that matter. Naruto's eyes were cold, and his face set in stone. Naruto drew Zero with his right hand and held onto it like a curved sword, the ghoul took steps towards Naruto with a hungry look raising its right hand, holding onto a sharp and long shard of glass, blood dried on it giving it a crimson tint. The ghoul thrusted its arm at Naruto's abdomen, but Naruto caught the arm, breaking it with relative ease as he hit the ghoul on the head with Zero, cleaving it with horrifying ease. The ghoul fell limp, and Zero coming of as Naruto didn't let it fall with.
"I hope you find peace in death." Naruto said, crouching down to close the eyes of the now dead villager, giving him a prayer for the journey to afterlife. Naruto stood up and cut the air with Zero to get the blood of, it came of with little effort and Naruto continued looking for ghouls with the words:
"13 down. 27 left."