Hi Heretic-kun here, here is my first x-over. It's a crossover of Naruto and Magic the Gathering, hope you'll enjoy the story as much as I did writing it.
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto nor do I own Magic the Gathering (have a ton of cards though)
In Konoha everything was peaceful, despite the fact that a giant demon fox, commonly known as the Kyuubi, had rampaged through the lands, and destroyed a big part of the city as well. The Kyuubi had ultimately been defeated by the hero of the village, their beloved Fourth Hokage That was four years ago, now the city was getting rebuild, some districts had been entirely abandoned, and was instead scheduled to be refurbished into training areas for the ninja population.
In the southwestern part of Konoha the orphanage was located, in this building the jinchuuriki of the Kyuubi was being raised. The Fourth Hokage had defeated the Kyuubi by sealing it into his own son, though the village had never been told that it was his own son, and the younger generations were told that the Kyuubi had been slain. The reason for the secret of his heritage was the fact that his father had many enemies, unfortunately this plan backfired, and many people of Konoha believed that Naruto in fact was the Kyuubi incarnate, therefore he wasn't treated too well, the abuse wasn't physical, but the staff of the orphanage ignored him most of the time.
The current leader of Konoha was the Third Hokage, he had issued several rules to protect and help the young boy. But despite his intentions, it didn't help instead the abuse were subtle, he were ignored by the staff and the other children were told to stay away from him.
This afternoon something different was about to happen, that would change Naruto's life forever. Naruto was currently seated in the corner of the orphanage, far away from where the other kids were, he liked that corner. The reason he liked that corner, was the fact that it was the only corner that had a swing, he loved that swing, even though it was old. To Naruto the swing gave him a sensation of inner peace while he were swinging on it, it made him feel safe but it also made him kind of sad. It was like he was missing something, something very important.
Sarkhan Vol stood at the top of a giant monument, the carved faces of the Hokages. It bothered him to be on this the Plane of Intemperiae, the plane was fairly void of the magical energies known as mana, and therefore not practical for planeswalkers like himself to wage war on. It certainly wasn't because of the plane itself that his master Nicol Bolas had set his eyes on the plane. Instead it was an individual, a child, what made this child so special were of no matter to Sarkhan. He continued to look over the village until he noticed the place he was looking for, the Orphanage of Konoha, the location of the child who had caught his master's interest. Sarkhan Vol uttered a spell and out of his back two dragon wings sprung forth, ready to bear him to his goal, so he could leave this world.
Sarkhan Vol landed on the other side of the fencing, which made sure the children didn't run away from the orphanage. He had used a camouflage spell to get past the ninja's of the village unnoticed. He had fought ninja before, on the plane of Kamigawa and even with the vast amounts of mana on that plane it had been quite the challenge. So with the limited amounts of mana he thought it wise to simply avoid detection, as he was ordered to by Nicol Bolas. Sarkhan spotted the child over in the corner sitting on a swing just swinging gently forth and back, far away from the other children.
Sarkhan Vol made his way towards the child, his master had told him that the child's name was Naruto, and that he wasn't treated well by the other villagers. Nicol Bolas had also told Sarkhan what to offer the child in exchange for his allegiance to the ancient dragon planeswalker.
Sarkhan Vol made his appearance known to the young boy, by gently clearing his throat. The child had heard him and looked up, at him, as the young boys gaze moved upwards, Sarkhan Vol started to smile, to let the boy know that he had no ill intent.
Naruto looked up at the man who had cleared his throat, the man had rather long black hair, it was unkempt and gave a sort of wild look, his beard on the other hand were short and properly shaved. His shoulders were covered by two scales, which appeared to be from something much bigger than the snakes found in Konoha's Forest of Death. He also wore a harness, but it left most of his muscular chest bare, his legs were covered by a pair of leathery pants. The man interested Naruto because he smiled at him unlike most other grown-ups in Konoha the only other people he had seen smiling at him was the Third Hokage.
The Anbu sat on her perch watching over Naruto, who were currently speaking with an unknown man, the Anbu didn't like the situation because she couldn't hear what they were talking about. She was afraid to move any closer because the man radiated a weird aura, somewhat similar to Naruto, just more powerful but lacking the slight presence of malignant Bijuu chakra. She were also unaware of how good that person were at detecting others, he had gone unnoticed by her until the very moment he stood in front of the boy. He had appeared out of practically nowhere, even though she felt his presence prior to him showing up. Either he was very fast or he had means of camouflaging his presence.
"So what do you think of our proposal?" Sarkhan Vol asked Naruto.
"So you say that if I swear allegiance to this powerful dragon named Nicol Bolas, I will have a nice bed to sleep in every night, good food and friends and servants looking out for me. Some of those servants could even play with me right?" Naruto queried, hope was very evident in his voice.
"I don't actually know if they'll play with you, but my master will teach you some fun skills, that can be used to entertain yourself, maybe even summon someone to play with" Sarkhan Vol replied he then added "Some of these summons are very playful, I can summon one of them so you can meet it if you want to?"
"Please I want to meet one of the playful ones, is it like a puppy or something like that" Naruto asked, even though he had never seen a puppy before he had heard that they were cute and fun to play with.
"Well it won't exactly be a puppy, but it will have its playful nature" Sarkhan Vol said before chanting the spell "Vocare Draco" as he finished the simple spell a tiny baby dragon appeared in his palm.
"Wow" was all Naruto could say when he saw the tiny dragon appear on Sarkhan's palm. The dragon was small, it was no more than four inches tall, but it was at least one foot and two inches long. Its two leathery wings were folded on its back, it couldn't fly yet, because dragons of this species developed their wings on a later stage than others, but looked after their kin. The dragon was red and had no spikes on its mane, this species were the perfect dragons if you wanted to ride one.
Naruto reached his hand out to touch its head, the little dragon stretched its neck and the cleaved tongue came out tasting the air, sensing his aura. The dragon suddenly jumped onto Naruto's arm, and crawled up onto his shoulder and licked his cheek with its tiny tongue. This caused Naruto to giggle because it tickled him. This shocked Sarkhan, these dragons were often very compliant with their masters, but the young dragons were usually not the types to bond with other than their own kind. But this dragon had crawled unto the young boy's shoulder and even licked him. Which was the only form of caring expression those dragons knew at that age, it was how their mother treated them, she licked them to show affection and care.
"He seems to like you" Sarkhan said. "If you want to you might be able to keep him, but we're going to have to wait a bit before he can stay with you too long at a time, he needs his mother after all"
"So if I go with you to your master who is a dragon similar to this dragon, then I can learn to summon this drake to play with?" Naruto asked and smiled at the thought of having such a nice pet dragon.
"Easily, summoning the small ones is very simple" Sarkhan said and added "His name is Crosis, named after one of the elder dragons, a previous ally of my master"
"I accept, the proposition, but don't we have to talk with the old man Hokage before leaving, I mean you have to have permission to exit the town" Naruto said.
"Hah we don't have to have permission to leave, after all where were going it's impossible to walk to, it is an alternate dimension, so we have to use magic to leave." Sarkhan said before adding "Just take my hand and we can 'jump' directly to our destination"
The Anbu heard this and attempted to jump in to get Naruto away from the man who had appeared to have a summoning contract with the weird winged serpent. But she was too slow, Naruto had already taken the strangers hand, and then both disappeared instantly, as though neither had even been there.
The first time Naruto planeshifted was a weird experience for him, he saw several hundred worlds flash by, places that seemed too extreme to actually exist. Places that were shining as though they were suns. After about half a minute, they arrived at their destination, the meditation plane of Nicol Bolas.
The plane made Naruto look in awe, everything appeared to be floating in midair, as though there were no gravity, but he could feel that he himself wasn't floating. So Naruto resisted the urge to jump off the platform and attempt to float around like the buildings and rocks.
Sarkhan was about to tell Naruto to get ready to fly to his masters lair when Nicol Bolas landed on the rock just in front of them.
"Greetings Naruto, welcome to my domain and your new home" The elder dragon said, this statement surprised Sarkhan, normally this plane were exclusively for Nicol Bolas, and other planeswalkers were only allowed here when they had an audience with him. To think that this boy were going to call this place his home, it was just a big surprise to Sarkhan, maybe this child were actually a lot more powerful than he had initially thought.
Several years had passed, while Naruto spent a lot of time in the Nicol Bolas' meditation plane, where he was taught by the elder dragon himself how to summon and command the many creatures and spells that was in the arsenal of a planeswalker. He favored dragons above all else, they dragons also respected and loved Naruto. Naruto treated them with respect and never simply commanded them around like Sarkhan would do at times, but one of the dragons enjoyed being near Naruto more than the others did, that dragons name was Crosis. The young dragon had been his comrade and friend since their first meeting several years ago. The young Hellkite was now about seven feet tall and more than thirty feet long, they seemed to grow pretty quickly once the dragon were more than a year old.
Even though Naruto spent most of his time on the meditation plane, he had also visited other planes, some briefly others for several months. One of the planes he visited for several months were the plane of Kamigawa, Nicol Bolas had found it essential to learn how some of the being on the plane acted and more importantly fought. His plan were to allow Naruto to control several planes in his name, because a strong servant, meant an even stronger master and as such control would be easy to maintain and he could focus on regaining his immortality for him and his surrogate son. Nicol Bolas had adopted Naruto as his own son, and trained him and held as much pride in Naruto's skill as he did in his own.
This affected Naruto a lot, Nicol Bolas acted like a father around him, although a father that wanted his son to be powerful enough to hold his own in even the worst situations. Naruto slowly adopted lesser draconic features, some of his teeth became actual fangs, even though he could hide it with magic he took pride in them, and said that they were a symbol of his family.
They lived like that for several years and Naruto was now twelve years old, and rather muscular for a boy his age, the constant training both physical and mental had groomed his mind and body. But then suddenly something changed, the Plane of Intemperiae now had a greater and more powerful mana flow then originally. Nicol Bolas had noticed this, and thought that it would be practical to send his son to that realm to gain experience both as a leader but also as a person, his personality was too similar to that of a dragon, which in many cases led to problems when governing the lesser humans, they were always many, and even for an elder dragon that could become a problem. Also the plane might hold a clue as to how he could regain his lost power, after all it wasn't everyday a plane just upped its mana production, usually the resource was produced in a steady flow for several hundred millennia until it collapsed, then it usually just ceased to produce the resource. Not even once had Nicol Bolas seen a plane where the mana flow had increased.
"Naruto, my son, I need you to do something for me" Nicol Bolas started after he had finished the training of the day. "The plane that you were born on has changed, and it seems to hide important information on how I regain our lost power, so we can live forever as immortal planeswalkers."
"So you need me to go to the plane, to search for whatever is causing the change, then research it and report the findings to you?" Naruto asked, even though he already were pretty certain that he was right, after all he knew his father pretty well.
"That is correct, the thing is that the plane has increased its flow of mana, and that is a thing I'd never seen have before. Also I think that no matter what we should secure the plane for ourselves, since it is your birthplace after all, it is yours rightfully and no other planeswalkers should think of it as a place where they can just come and go as they please." Nicol Bolas replied and added "I have taught you the proper spells to secure a plane from other planeswalkers, so the task should be more than possible and within your limits, and since it is your native plane you could probably better convince the local population to help you than, for an example, Sarkhan could. Of course I will send him or Tezzeret to your aid if you need it."
"Sounds good father, I can contact you through the normal means if I need aid right." Naruto replied.
"Yes, the messenger hellkites as always" Nicol Bolas replied, who then added. "Be careful and remember to think things through, just like I taught you, I'll miss you my son"
"I'll miss you too father" Naruto said and then waved goodbye before planeshifting to the plane of Intemperiae.
As usual Naruto enjoyed planeshifting, the worlds were a wonderful sight to behold as he flashed through time and space, and dimensions. After the usual one and a half minute he arrived at his destination, the plane of Intemperiae. Not a place he had missed, though it did have a homely feel to it now that the mana energies were increasing.
Naruto could tell that as long as he was the only planeswalker in the area there would be more than enough energies for him, it could maybe even have enough energy for two battling planeswalkers but it might be a stretch. Naruto sat down in the mountain range where he had shifted to, it was a mere forty miles from Konoha the only place he actually had some knowledge of. As he sat down he prepared the materials for the spell, it was just a basic spell that would alert him of planeswalkers entering and leaving the plane and hide it in from prying eyes. The spell were designed in a way that made sure that only he and his father were able to watch the plane from their plane of meditation or as he would call it 'home'.
After finishing the spell he collected his belongings and headed towards the nearest town, he might be young but at least he had, had a good teacher so he knew how to get information. Naruto had made sure to check the currency of gold on the plane, because it was usually a universal currency due to its rarity. The value of gold in this plane was luckily quite high so he had no need to bring along monstrous amounts of it. Last time he had visited the plane Mirrodin, he had been surprised, gold were very cheap on that plane, and he had brought home tons of it, which he had bought for about a kilo of darksteel that he had stolen from another planeswalker at one time.
The closest town was rather big by the standards of this plane, it was called Tanzaku and even had its own fortress. Naruto figured that a fortress like that only offered little to no protection from ninjas. Before entering the city, he pulled up the hood and a mask over his face, the mask was primarily there to hide his teeth, because it could freak out some people. He had scared a farmer half to death on Kamigawa once, because he had smiled at him and the farmer believed him to be a demon, rather than a dragon or a boy.
'Ignorant people can be so much trouble' Naruto thought to himself as he walked down the street to look for an inn to stay at and a person who could evaluate the gold and exchange it for cash. So he didn't have to pay overprice for everything and endanger locals by handing gold over to them. Naruto quickly found what he looked for, a jewelers shop could usually use the gold, and they often had enough money to pay for it as well, so that's the place he tried first. The jeweler were a little skeptic of the young man stepping through his door attempting to sell him gold especially because he were wearing a mask over the lower half of his face, at least he had pulled the hood of his cloak off when entering. The jeweled had bought the gold though, after checking with the local authorities that there had been no gold stolen recently. He had then asked Naruto where he got the gold, he had told him that it was because he had sold multiple valuable artifacts to a collector and it had earned him quite the fortune as he could obviously see.
Naruto had gotten quite a good amount of money, and had asked the jeweler about the local inns. The jeweler had directed him to a rather good looking place, that wasn't too expensive, but still had a good level of class and offered breakfast and dinner, if one needed lunch though, one had to pay extra. Naruto noticed pretty quickly that compared to the locals he was rather tall, it probably had something to do with his training and the Plane of Meditations very high levels of mana. He had noticed another twelve year old, who had been about six inches shorter than he was, and just about half as muscular. Naruto reckoned that his five feet and four inches were about average for the fifteen year old locals. Also his voice was a bit deeper than most, due to the changes he had made in his physique with draconic magic.
Naruto spent the night at the local inn, and he slept fairly well, even though the way they slept on this plane was rather different from what he was used to. They slept on the floor in something called a futon. Naruto exited the inn the next morning, well rested and ready to gather information, he was pretty certain that important world news that would affect the mana flow would be the talk all over town, but he was pretty certain that it would go unnoticed by most people.
Naruto made his way through town, talking to shopkeepers, civilians and even a few of the ninja that he could find, most found him to be rather arrogant, and one had even called him an arrogant bastard and told him to get lost. Naruto had to use all of his self-control just to keep calm enough not to launch a fireball into his face. 'Violence is only practical for hostile takeover' Naruto thought to himself as he continued down the street.
He returned to the inn in the evening with his spirit dampened quite a bit, it had rained as well and he had gotten close to no results on his search. The locals had also developed some levels of despise for him because of his arrogant attitude. Naruto figured he needed to take that down a notch if he wanted any more information at all. After he finished eating his dinner he asked the innkeeper if he knew any place where he could get some information, news from other parts of the world. The innkeeper told him that the gambling den right next to his inn, had many customers from all over the land, some of whom were actually ninja as well and would usually have a lot more information than any local.
Naruto made his way to the gambling den, he entered the place, which to his surprise had no age restriction. As he entered he was greeted by a man who asked if there were any particular games he was looking to play. Naruto told the man that his primary goal was to get information on a very complicated topic and asked him if there were any high ranking ninja present. The servant informed him that gambling room number seven, currently were joined by the Sannin by the name of Tsunade, who were famed to be the best medic-nin in the entire world.
"I would like to join the game there, if you don't mind though, I'm going to observe the game a bit to get a feel for it, I hardly ever gamble you see" Naruto replied while seemingly smiling at the greeter, he also kept his tone even, so he didn't seem arrogant but rather a bit humble and good mannered.
As Naruto entered the room all attention shifted to him, he bowed slightly and presented himself as Naruto Bolas, and explained that he would observe a bit before taking part in the game. Once he finished explaining the other just quietly mumbled okay and he took place next to a woman carrying a pet pig, she looked very nervous apparently because of the gambling.
"Excuse me miss" Naruto gently said in an attempt not to scare the young woman or speak too loudly so he disturbed the people gambling. "You wouldn't happen to know who Tsunade-sama of the Sannin is? I forgot to ask for a description and can't seem to identify her."
"Um" Shizune said, she was getting worried, the stranger in the black coat, with a black mask on his face were looking for her master. She really hoped that it wasn't a bounty collector hired by one of the loan sharks Tsunade owed money. "I would like to know what you want from her before I answer that question Bolas-san"
"Oh I just want to ask her a few questions, see I am looking for something, and the information I need might only seem like rumors, but I figured that the higher rank a ninja is the more information she has, and the more details she notices. Thus I figured that I would ask her as she is supposed to be legendary." Naruto replied, Shizune could tell he was smiling beneath the mask, but she still didn't like his eyes, they bore a slight similarity to the eyes of a serpent.
"Um, she is the one in the green coat with the kanji for gamble on her back, I am Shizune her assistant, and I too am a high ranking ninja, so don't try anything funny" Shizune said harshly, to warn the young man that he was facing bad odds.
"Don't worry, I have no intention of harming either of you, like I said, I need information. I was sent here to gather information for my father and that is the only and primary objective." Naruto replied, still smiling slightly then he suddenly said "looks like your master is losing again"
"No not again" Shizune almost whispered. That exclamation amused Naruto.
"She loses often does she not?" Naruto asked as he turned his attention to Shizune once again.
Shizune sighed, and then replied "Unfortunately yes, the reason why I threatened you was because I thought you might be a bounty hunter or something, hired by one of the loan sharks she owes money due to her extensive amounts of gambling."
"Sounds like a bother, I had no idea the life of here could be challenging like that" Naruto replied, before moving to Tsunade and whispering to her "You should probably hold here, then you'll probably win"
"Why are you giving me advice, I am doing perfectly fine myself, you brat" Tsunade hissed back at him.
This ticked Naruto off a bit, but he just calmed himself down before replied back hissing slightly "I figure it's something for something, I want to ask you some questions, and you probably want to win, so figured I'd try to help you out a bit." Naruto could tell that the Sannin were thinking things through.
'Maybe I should take his advice after all' Tsunade thought, after all she hadn't had the best of luck that evening, maybe if she took his advice she could win some of her money back, and then there would be more money for sake. She decided to follow his advice but not before hissing silently at him "if I lose this, you are going to be the one pay up."
"Sure thing, I have money enough for that after all" Naruto whispered, before seating himself just behind her.
As the game dragged on a bit for the last round, everyone seemed to think that the advice Tsunade had gotten from had been a bad one because he had introduced himself as a newbie, there were throwing in money, because Tsunade had thrown in all her money. Despite all this Tsunade won, she won a bit more than she had lost that evening and decided to call it quits because she was certain that it wouldn't keep up.
"So Bolas-san, or can I call you Naruto-san instead" Tsunade said turning her attention to Naruto as they left the gambling den.
"Don't mind it either way, you're not likely to meet anyone else with my surname after all" Naruto replied, attempting to hide the pride that accompanied his surname, but it ended up still being pretty obvious.
"Ha kid, you seem pretty proud of your heritage." Tsunade said before adding "my full name is Tsunade Senju, I am the granddaughter of the man who founded Konoha, the First Hokage, and this is my apprentice Shizune Kato."
"Nice to meet both of you, I am very proud to be my father's son" Naruto replied, and added. "So do you reckon we could find someplace where we could sit down and talk instead of walking around out in the open, I bet it isn't very practical for ninja to have no place to hide."
"Ha you might be right about that, the only places that are open are bars, I hope you have no problem spending time in bars, since you aren't old enough to enter." Tsunade said, before adding "I can tell that you are not eighteen yet, but exactly how old are you Naruto-san?"
"If you must know, I am fifteen years old, and perfectly used to people drinking, I have spent evenings at bars with my father as well" Naruto replied.
"Okay, then let's get moving, the sake isn't going drink itself" Tsunade replied.
They made their way to one of the bars, they served both sake and dango, which Tsunade insisted on getting as well. As they made their way towards the bar, with Tsunade in front leading the way, and Shizune and Naruto in the back, walking silently, Naruto were taking in the scenery of the city at night. Tsunade had noticed that the young boy had lied about several things, it had been hard to detect, but she had noticed the very subtle signals. She noticed that he had lied about going to bars with his father, as well as his age and he had never even once seen a person drunk.
They soon arrived at the bar and seated themselves at a table in the corner, Tsunade had asked Naruto to put on the hood of his cloak, at least until they were seated in the corner. As the waitress came over and asked for orders, Tsunade ordered some sake, and dango, for both her and Shizune and Naruto simply ordered a single serving of dango for himself. They waited a bit in silence until the waitress returned with their order, after she had left Naruto let the hood down, so that they could properly see his face when they were talking, even though he let the mask stay as it were.
"So Naruto-san why are you wearing a mask all the time, I mean I know quite a number of people who does that, but all have different reasons for it, what is your reason, if you don't mind telling us" Tsunade said, after taking a small slurp of sake.
"Um well you see I'm not exactly like everyone else, and I tend to scare people when I don't wear the mask, and it's so hard to gather info from people who are running away screaming." Naruto said, while laughing slightly at the irony.
"Figures, tell me why were you lying about your age, as well as going to bars with your father" Tsunade said before adding. "You must understand that I am not likely to answer questions from people I don't trust."
"Ah what a bother" Naruto exclaimed with a sigh. "I figured that it didn't matter that much, and that you wouldn't notice, after all I look a bit older than I am. I'm actually twelve years old, and well my father is not really the type to go drinking, certainly not when there is anything else to do."
"Thanks for not lying this time Naruto-san. I can tell by the way you speak that you aren't exactly from this area" Tsunade said and then added. "I don't need to know where you're from, though I wouldn't mind knowing. But could you please lower your mask, trust me I've seen my share of creepy things and scary things, I doubt you'll be able to scare me"
"Well I guess it is ok, just warn me if the waitresses are coming so I can pull it up, don't want to scare them." Naruto said, he then pulled down his mask, unlike eight years ago his whisker marks were gone entirely, but the fangs in his mouth were pretty obvious once he smiled at them, all of the teeth in his mouth were sharp like a dragons, and combined with the eyes that bore slight resemblance with a serpent, that made for a scary looking face.
Shizune couldn't resist asking "Why are your teeth like that?" she sounded a bit shocked, but also terrified by it. Tsunade just looked over at her apprentice, she could understand her reaction even in the work of a ninja it wasn't every day you got to see a smile like the young boys.
"Well I made it like that myself, to be more like my father, and I have no plan on changing them from how they look now." Naruto replied, rage was seething just below the surface, Tsunade could tell that for some reason he had taken it as an insult to his father.
"I'm sorry Naruto-san, we have seen a lot of things but we expected something like a horrible scar or something, and since were medic-nin we have seen our share of those, but this is something different." Tsunade said gently, attempting to calm the young boy down, something told her that he could be very dangerous when angered. Apparently it had some level of effect, because the boy visibly calmed down, and turned his attention to Tsunade, who had put a hand on Naruto's left arm. Her expression changed rapidly, as she activated her medic jutsu to check it again, she had sensed something off with the young boy's arm. It had been different, cold and dead as if he wasn't even alive. This scared the medic, because it was a sensation she had only ever felt when performing autopsies.
"Naruto-san, what is wrong with your arm?" Tsunade asked, quietly and assessed his reaction to her question. To her surprise the boy looked at her with surprise.
"There is nothing wrong with my left arm, I can tell you are attempting to figure out why it feels different, but trust me it is not a problem." Naruto removed her hand from his arm and rolled up the sleeve, so they could see most of his arm. Then something started happening at his fingertips, it grossed both medics out to watch, but they didn't really look away either. The skin and flesh on Naruto's left arm were retracting, and once it there were no skin or flesh, only one thing were remaining that was some sort of metallic prosthesis.
"I had a little mishap during one of the trips with my father, a giant wolf bit off most of my left arm. This is an etherium-prosthesis, it is a powerful metal that can be both flexible and at the same time as hard as any steel." Naruto said as though it were the most natural thing in the world, he then added. "I use a flesh substitute spell to cover the arm with flesh and skin to make it look natural."
"Ok, well this is definitely a first" Tsunade stated in awe, never in her life had she heard of such a technique. She just had to act on this, this could help along medics all over the world, and save lives. "Say Naruto-san can that technique replace organs or something like that, and is there a possibility that you could teach me how to use that technique"
"No and no" Naruto said calmly, and awaited the female Sannin's response.
"What do you mean no" she yelled out loud as she stood up from her seat and slammed her fist into the table which shattered, it destroyed all of their sake and dango as well.
"I mean it can't regenerate organs, and no it is impossible to teach you the spell, because it is not something as simple as channeling chakra, I'm channeling the energies of the area around me to an energy source that people like me refer to as mana, and only a select few with a certain gene setting can channel these energies" Naruto explained calmly, and continued. "Besides that fact the spell can only affect the body of the user not someone else. So if you want the technique for medical purposes there is absolutely no way I can help you, I'm sorry but that is how it is."
Tsunade was baffled, she had thought she had found the legendary skill she had been looking for while traveling, well at least she had been looking for it until the gambling took overhand. But she wasn't going to give up, maybe this 'spell' as he called it were a technique derived from the original because it was too complicated for the boy and his father who probably was the one who taught him the 'spell'.
"Mind telling me how you came up with that spell" Tsunade sat down again and leaned back in her seat again, the focus of the entire bar were still on them, people had noticed that the legendary Sannin was there and she wanted something from the boy, exactly what it was they didn't know, but she could be scary if someone crossed her path.
"I don't mind telling you it's origin no, but it is not going to help you, unless you know how to planeshift that is, you're not going to examine the original, and it is not exactly healthy to do so either" Naruto replied keeping up the calm façade.
"What do you mean planeshift, what in the First's name are you talking about?" Tsunade asked Naruto, now a bit concerned about the young boys mentality, he seemed a bit like one of Orochimaru's experiments, he was devoted to his 'father' and had obviously been scientifically augmented.
"I am talking about the ability to travel between planes of existence, travel to other worlds that exist in parallel universes." Naruto explained his voice calm as ever, he then continued to add. "It is a very rare power to possess less than one in a billion people are born with what we refer to as the 'spark' that signifies a planeswalker."
"I find that hard to believe, I have never once heard of a person having a planeswalker spark, not even a rumor about one either." Tsunade replied, one could easily hear that she was far from convinced, she continued. "Even though there is less than one in a billion people born with such a spark, it seems too far-fetched, even for a medic-nin like me who used to work with a maniac, whose dream and only ambition were obtaining immortality."
"Sounds like an interesting guy, it is certainly a possible achievement, but complicated nonetheless" Naruto replied thought clouding his mind. "I believe he must be quite insane to think that he can achieve that in just one lifetime."
"He is certainly insane, he cared nothing for anyone, and he'd destroy anyone who got in his way. Ultimately he was banished from Konoha where were from, for experimenting on his fellow shinobi and citizens" Tsunade replied, she thought that it would be better to keep him talking, he apparently had a lot of knowledge despite his young age. "But anyway sorry about yelling at you before, I let my anger get the best of me because I thought I would have found the medical ninjutsu I was looking for, it is legendary and as such it could be anywhere or just a legend."
"A legendary jutsu you say, sounds like an interesting objective, it could help a lot of people, and I take that is what your motive is, it is not likely immortality, judging by the way you talked about your previous teammate" Naruto replied, all the while smiling a bit, this served to make him seem even more scary and sinister. "So if you don't mind, could we get back to my questions, I believe that was the price for the advice, and not the other way around."
"Sure, but would you mind if I ask one last question? who is your father?" Tsunade questioned the young 'planeswalker' as he referred to himself as.
"My father's name is Nicol Bolas, the Elder Dragon, and before you ask, yes he is actually a dragon, scales, claws, teeth, fire breath, the whole package, and on top of that he is the only dragon planeswalker." Naruto replied proudly he then started to explain to the two baffled kunoichi what he was looking for. "So about three days ago I planeshifted to this plane, it was for the sole purpose of identifying the source for the increase in the mana flow of this plane. Until just recently the plane was worthless for planeswalkers, it contained to little mana to even wage a small scale war against the local population or other planeswalkers for that matter. Now recently, more precisely ten days ago, the mana flow just increased drastically, at the moment a battle between two very strong planeswalkers would be quite possible. In comparison just a few weeks ago the plane wouldn't even provide enough mana for a single planeswalker to take control of even the smallest hidden village. Now is something else, the mana flow is vast enough to wage war against even the biggest and most powerful hidden village."
Just as Naruto finished the sentence and drew in breath to continue his explanation, Tsunade interrupted. "So this mana flow what exactly is it? I mean I get the fact that it is energy in the world around us, but what makes it different from the sage chakra, collected from the nature by my other teammate Jiraiya when he enters sage mode?"
"I am not entirely sure how this sage mode you refer to work, so the answer is not necessarily correct. But I think the main difference is where it is created, sage chakra is created by nature if my guess is correct, it is produced by all living things in nature. Mana on the other hand is created by the elements, each element has its own source of mana, change in climate or terrain could change the type of mana that flows, but not increase the total flow." Naruto replied, his voice distant and thoughtful, even the most brain-dead genin would have been able to tell that he was far from certain about his speculations about the sage chakra.
"So even if the entire world would be covered in water the mana flow would remain the same, and only change type?" Tsunade questioned, she thought that the primary concept of the two energies were roughly the same, but she had to be sure.
"That is correct, we divide the different types of mana by color, when gathered in huge amounts, and each type of mana radiates their own color." Naruto explained before moving on to what he was talking about before he was interrupted. "But as I was about to say before I was interrupted, the mana flow increased drastically, and I am here for two reasons, to first make sure that the plane doesn't become a new planeswalker battlefield, and to find out what the cause of the increase is."
"Well if you need information about that I am pretty certain that we can't help you, unfortunately we had no clue about mana in the first place, and we certainly didn't notice the increase in its flow." Tsunade said the added "We at the very least need to know what could trigger such an occurrence."
"The problem is, we don't know how it happened, we have no clue at all, it is the first and only time something like this has happened, not once in the several billion years planeswalkers have existed, have something like this occurred." Naruto replied thoughtfully, he then added "It could be anything from newly introduced artifacts, the plane expanding or maybe even a machine of unknown origin being triggered and powering up. People like that previous teammate of yours might have stumbled across it and accidently activating it. It is annoying how many different possibilities that could be the cause behind this occurrence."
"I am not sure whether or not we have heard anything about something like that. One thing we do know, is that recently hunting for artifacts have become a popular pastime, they actually find interesting stuff every once in a while." Tsunade replied "More importantly, hidden villages receive a lot of requests these days for ninjas to deal with booby trapped doors and the like. If artifacts or old machinery in hidden places could be the cause, then there is a good chance that the cause could be found in one of the hidden villages."
"Sounds promising, I have heard of artifacts called Caged Suns, these artifacts that my father told me about could be the source, but they can also be extremely dangerous. According to one of the planeswalker history books, that also held the law that forbade the construction of Caged Suns for several reasons, two-hundred Caged Suns were used by a planeswalker once, some four-hundred years ago, he caused a whole plane to collapse and was torn to pieces, due to the mana surge. The increase of the flow were said to be so great that the entire multiverse shook." Naruto told the Tsunade and Shizune, who looked even more baffled by the information, the revelation that the energy could very well destroy their world, were a bit scary to say the least.
"So could you explain to me what these suns look like, and what it takes to activate them?" Tsunade questioned, she wanted to help protect her world after all. "So we can be on the lookout for them, and make sure we don't activate one if we come across it."
Naruto snickered a bit, even though the woman had a hard time to believe him in the start she had started to believe him, sometimes the truth did actually work, though to him deceit was preferred. "You don't have to worry that much, the plane that collapsed had an original mana flow that were more than six-thousand times the flow this plane currently have, and the planeswalker multiplied that by two, two-hundred times, increasing the mana flow up to many billions times the mana flow on this plane in an instant, if you increase anything that fast, it is bound to go wrong."
"Phew, I was actually getting a little nervous about potentially being blown to smithereens, it was never very high on my list of ways to die" Tsunade replied lightly and smiled at Naruto, who also laughed a bit at the rather morbid joke.
"Well it has been a nice evening ladies, but I think I will have to retreat to my quarters at the inn I stay at, I am only twelve after all and get tired easily." Naruto said with a yawn, showing off all of the pointy teeth in his mouth. "It has been a most rewarding talk, I didn't dare hope for this much success during the first week of my search."
"I guess it has, I could keep an eye out for those Caged Suns if you tell me what they look like" Tsunade offered to Naruto who had drawn his mask up over his mouth and nose once again. "Oh I almost forgot, I could help you in another way what do you say if I recommend you to my old teacher, the Third Hokage of Konoha, Hiruzen Sarutobi, to have them bring you along for a small amount of cash, I figure you can hold your own in a treasure hunt. With my recommendation you could be put on those missions, and have some of your travel expenses covered, but in exchange I want any scrolls about medical ninjutsu you come across on your travels, simple or complicated, complete and incomplete. Do you think we have an agreement, I'll let you think about it till tomorrow, meet me here at three pm, if you agree. I will wait at most half an hour for you."
"I will think about the offer thanks, now I bid you a farewell and a good night" Naruto said as he pulled the hood of his cloak over his head and left the bar.