The Turtle's Tale.
On a crisp clear morning, two figures walked down a dirt road. One wore a bright orange jump suit and had hair as wild as it was blond. To his right of the for mentioned orange wearing hero stood a much taller man, sporting a red vest and pants with sliver clothing lining under Neath, the man known throughout the elemental nations was known as the super perverted, toad sage Jiarya. The team had just set out on their 3 year long journey to strengthen Naruto in hopes of being able to defend himself against the criminal organization known as the Akatsuki. Though Jiarya had done many a thing for the orange loving lad in the past, from teaching him the Rasegaen, to unlocking the 5 prong seal the traitorous snake Orichimaru had placed upon him during the chunin exams, to allowing Naruto to sign the toad contract. However these deeds were more done out of laziness for the toad sage than actual help, the only thing the toad sage managed to do was allow him to sign the summoning contract, had it not been for that then a quick trip to library or the Hokage if need be could have allowed Naruto to make the formal connections to realize the identity of his father and thus his massive justu library, along with his inheritance.
His father being of course, the yondiame Hokage.
Jiarya had not actually considered teaching Naruto anything major but rather to just get him out of the village, in fact he hadn't even allowed Naruto to discover his chakra nature which most higher genin and chunin has already begun to experiment with if not begun to apply their new fond logic.
In short, Jiarya was a lazy, lazy man.
As they continued down the dirt path until the sun began to finally set over the grass caked earth. Jiarya threw down his bag and stopped dead in his tracks. There was a flowing river near by allowing them to resupply on water for the journey tomorrow, and ideal spot to set up camp.
"Alright gaki, set up your tent, were stopping for the night." Jiarya said
"Ero-sensi, when are you going to teach me some cool justu?" Naruto asked pleadingly, for the last month since their departure Naruto has been getting little to no attention from Jiarya peeping on women to just not wanting to be troubled with helping the poor genin.
The toad sage got slightly irritated at having been asked that for what he could have sworn was the thousandth time that day that he asked that.
It had been the first.
"For the hundredth time, SOON!" Jiarya said angrily
Naruto for the most part just sighed and somewhat accepted his fate, the only teacher that had ever shown him some affection was Iruka but he could go into detail with his training, his jonin sensei had taught the most well-known traitor since Itachi, and kept high favoritism towards the teme and his lessons almost ended in Naruto dying at the valley of the end. And now here he was the same situation, only now even though he had enough favoritism shown to be picked for this chance, he still was neglected.
Much how the villagers had done in his childhood.
The night came quickly for Naruto but soon nature came calling to him and he walked over to the river half asleep to relief his near bursting bladder of the growing pressure. As Naruto walked to the edge of the river, he saw past the moonlight a figure. He stood on the water motionless, he had a trench coat on from what Naruto could tell and was about half a foot taller than Naruto, the trench coat was open showing a purple under shirt tucked into his combat pants. But what shocked Naruto was the figure wore a haunting mask. It was a deep purple and he bright yellow spikes running down the cheek lines and two that rested on its head. The mask had giant yellow and orange eyes that seem to pierce Naruto's soul as the figure stared at him. Finally the figure spoke.
"you have met with a terrible fate haven't you cousin?' the figure said
"Cousin? All of my family is dead sir." Naruto said discovering from the depth in the figures voice it was a man. The voice though barely above hearing level had a level of mysteriousness to it. It was very haunting to the blonde haired genin.
"Not by blood, but you and I are the same my friend, we both carry burdens that we cannot control." The figure said.
Naruto gasped slightly as the words the man spoke, how in Kami's name did this man know he was a jinjurki, and why was he out in the middle of nowhere?
"You have a demon too?" Naruto asked slightly fearful although not showing it with is beaming confidence.
"Yes, mine is the three tailed turtle, and I am here to offer you something." The figure spoke.
"What is it?" Naruto asked
"I wish to train you, from what I can assume you were treated very poorly in your village and even now you are neglected. So I wish to make you stronger, to give you the attention that you deserve." The man said
Naruto stood there for what seemed like hours thinking over what the man had said, on one hand the man was offering a fantastic opportunity and that Naruto could become strong enough to maybe be Hokage, but on the other he would have to leave the sleeping pervert not 30 feet away, after repeating the last sentence in his head, Naruto made his choice.
"Cousin, I accept your offer." Naruto said
"Call me Majora, and now we have many things to discuss." Majora said.
Naruto nodded as Majora walked over to him. Majora then promptly flashed through hand signs and lit Naruto's tent on fire. As the fire blazed, Naruto noticed on Majora's trench coat, were red clouds and on his hand was a purple ring. Naruto nearly ran at the sight but then calmed down enough to ask Majora a question.
"Majora sensei, where did you get that cloak and ring?" Naruto asked fearful of his answer.
"I man tried to capture me for my demon, I killed him and now as a reminder to those bastards not to fuck with us." Majora said with slight anger in his voice. "And when you are ready you will kill one of those murdering bastards and take his cloak and ring as sign of you being strong enough to fight for those you care for."
Naruto now filled with a burning passion to prove himself to his new friend and teacher and also to prove to those he though precious of and to protect them.
Majora gripped Naruto shoulder and in a swirl of water they both disappeared, although in jiarya's next report, he would be listed as Killed in Action.
*3 years pass*
Two figures approached the village gates, one wore a haunting purple mask and wore a black cloak with red clouds, and the other wore a terrifying red fox mask. And like his travelling companion also wore a black cloak with red clouds. They stealthy hopped over the village's gates and made their way through the market district.
"Alright meet back in 2 hours." Majora said. Naruto nodded and they separated as Majora went straight to a realtor office and Naruto went in search of a pink haired girl.
Majora enter the shop and looked around, a single man stood behind a bar with house fillers and pricings listed on black boards behind him. Majora approached the man and then spoke.
"By chance, I was wondering if there were any compounds for sale, I need only two houses, not too much." Majora said.
The man beamed with excitement
"Well we have one for sale for around the cost of 400000 ryo, and its plenty far away from the demon nest." The man said. Majora put his hands on the counter and cocked his neck
"Demon nest?" Majora asked.
"That kyrubii brat's apartment." The man said with a scowl. Majora nodded and then look around before saying rather loudly,
"Is there anyone here who does not have a negative opinion on Naruto Uzumaki?" Majora said
A woman in her early twenties appeared from behind the black boards.
"Hi my name is Mitsuki, and I know of the boy you speak of and no, I do not hate him." The woman said. Majora nodded and then lifted a massive wooden chest onto the counter.
"Then you will sell me this compound, and keep the change." Majora said. The woman and man were wide eyed. The woman the slowly opened the chest to find it to be filled to the brim with gold! Easy enough to buy half the village if she wanted to! The woman fumbled with the keys and the handed them over to Majora who then bowed at the kind lady and left without another word.
Across the village the once infamous prankster of Konaha was on a mission to find his once crush Sakura, he of course thought he still loved her but had realized those feelings had faded years ago. In a crowd he spotted the pink haired kuniochi and nearly called out to her before she saw her smash and kick through a crowd not caring who got in her way. Naruto was horrified at the sight, not even Sasuke, the man who had nearly killed him and had betrayed the village treated people this badly. Naruto continued to watch, Sakura didn't seem to care about anything as she marched down the street. She continued until she saw Kiba and promptly upper cut him through a building, seeing the danger and potential maiming Naruto then left the district and shiunish to a nearby training ground.
Naruto leaned against on of the wooden training posts thinking about the observed actions of a certain pink haired ninja.
'Why would Sakura do something like that? I knew she could get mad and violent at times but this…' Naruto was broken out of his thought to the sound of faint weeping. Naruto stood up and slowly approached the source and saw it was none other than Hinata, leaning against a tree. Naruto sat down beside her and decided not to reveal his true identity quite yet.
"Hey there, are you alright?" Naruto asked. Hinata didn't turn towards him but shook her head.
"n-no, th-there this boy that left a while ago and…." Hinata said as tears ran down her fair skin.
"Go on, its ok." Naruto said putting a hand on her shoulder. Hinata tensed but fought back more tears.
"He was pronounced dead, and I can't get over him! I loved him so much and he never got to know… and now today is, sorry, it w-w-was his birthday." Hinata said opening sobbing. Naruto's heart wretched out for his friend and then the information hit his like an S-class justu to the face.
Today was his birthday.
Hinata was crying over him
Hinata…..loved him.
Naruto lunged at Hinata and wrapped her in a tight hug. Her body tensed and she fought back slightly before Naruto whispered into her ears.
"It's ok, I am sure that this man knew you loved him." Naruto said feeling his heart do back flips at the contact with her. Hinata then pulled back suddenly and stared at Naruto. Hinata then jumped up and took off sprinting.
"Wait!" Naruto called out but she was too far for her to hear him. Naruto with the new present knowledge sighed, he was now more eager than ever to reveal himself to the village and Tsunade. Plus the councilors would flip over his new kekkei genkai he developed.
*flashback*
" Alright Naruto, today we are going to begin your demon training, this will in turn allow you to have full access to the Kyrubi's chakra along with increased senses and power. But there is one other thing that comes with the deal." Majora said facing Naruto.
"What is it Majora?" Naruto spoke.
" You get to create your own kekkei genkai, and more than that even, you see for every three tails a demon has the jinjurki can create a kekkei genkai, your friend Garaa only had one so he was forced to have the sand wielding abilities. But you have 9 tails, thus 3 new or old kekkei genkai.' Majora said with slight excitement at the possibilities. Over the course of the two heroes travels Majora made Naruto study many things including village kekkei gankei. Naruto's jaw dropped so low he could catch flies.
"That's amazing Majora sensei!" Naruto said jumping up and down.
"Yes, now I will give you the key to your seal, now open wide and hold still" Majora said putting on a glove.
'This is going to be unpleanst.' Naruto thought
*end of flashback*
In the end Naruto had become apparently even higher then Kage level and he ended up choosing wood manipulation, so Tsunade wouldn't worry about it being passed on along with it being awesome, Sanpaktoe, one of his own that combined the byagkugan, the shargian, and the rinnegan. And finally over the fear of him being a jinjurki and growing old much after all his friends had died created age control, but it could only be used 5 times on a single person, plus it allowed the enemy to become too young or too old to be a threat during a fight.
Naruto sighed and began his walk towards Majora.
Naruto walked down the market district, even though he wore a cloak used by one of the biggest most power criminal originations on the earth he still got less glares then when he was a child.
Kami how people were cruel.
Naruto continued down until he spotted Majora eating some dango as he leaned against a telephone pole. Naruto stood by Majora waiting for him to finish. In a flash Naruto and Majora were surrounded by ANBU guards. Naruto eyed the ANBU and Majora calmly licked his fingers after flicking the dango stick on the ground.
"What can I do for you my friends? I could offer you some better masks if you want." Majora said causing Naruto to snicker. Naruto looked around and noticed how the entire market place froze and everyone watched then with prying eyes. Naruto recognized a couple of the crowd; he noticed shikamaru with Temari, and Choji.
"By order of the lord Hokage you are under arrest, come peacefully and you will not be harmed." An ANBU said with a Boar mask.
"Is that anyway to treat a Konaha ninja?" Naruto asked.
The ANBU looked questionably at each other. Before Boar spoke again.
"Please remove your mask gentlemen."
"Sorry but I am not removing them until I at least see Lady Tsunade." Naruto and Majora said. The ANBU tensed and unsheathed their ninjato.
" we will ask one more time." The Boar masked ANBU said.
" And we will not move from this spot, unless we get an audience with the hokage." Naruto said now slightly irratated at the annoyance of having to repeat himself. The ANBU then lundged at Naruto and Majora, flashing through hand signs in order to subdo the two of them. Naruto only smirked and rose his had and tree roots shot up from the groud and bound all the ANBU mid leap. All of the ANBU were not only surprised under their masked but horrified, they were in a postion were with a flick of the wrist, this masked man could kill them all with their own village's kekkei genkei. An enourmous amount of KI was then released causing the ANBU and Naruto to turn their heads, with Majora not really caring. In the center of the road stood lady Tsunade, wearing her hokage hat and wearing a very cold look on her face.
" care to explain why you attacked my ninja? And more imporntantly why you have the Mokunton?" tsunade asked. Naruto lowered his hand and released the ANBU from their wooden bindings.
" your ninja attacked me after I asked for an audience with you." Naruto said.
" well when your wearing those robes we might have a few suspius thoughts about why you are here." Tsunade said not wanting to reveal anything key about the Akatsuki.
"Madam Hokage, me and my friend are not part of THAT origination as you have implied." Naruto said crossing his arms.
"Then why in kami's name are you wearing those cloaks!" Tsunade said glaring at the fox mask wearing stranger.
"Because that is proof that I am strong enough to return. Me and my friend killed two members and stole their robes." Naruto said as he lifted his hand, "and their rings" he continued.
Tsunade blood ran cold at this new information. The two men in front of her have killed S-class criminals that have put Kages for a run for their money.
"And why would such people go after you and your…. Friend." Tsunade said as her sweat dropped at the sight of Majora sleeping on the ground.
"Because we are….. Carriers. And I am hurt that you do not recognize me…..baa-chan." Naruto said smirking underneath his mask.
Tsunade froze in place, and her eyes widened, there had only been one ninja in all the elemental nations with balls big enough to give her that nickname. And he has long since been thought dead. But now that Tsunade thought, there was no body found but that could have been from the fire. Then again she didn't send out someone to check in her grieved state.
"N-N-Naruto?" Tsunade said tearing up slightly. Naruto rose his hand to his mask and gently took it off; showing his long spikey hair, his now aged face and more mature look, his blue ocean eyes that have now hardened somewhat but still had a level of childishness that made Naruto who he was. Naruto popped open the cloak to reveal a dark orange shirt underneath tucked into black combat pants. Tsunade was so overwhelmed that she did the only thing logical.
She tackled the blonde onto the ground in a powerful hug
All the ANBU were wide eyed at their leader for her actions and also stupefied that a once thought dead genin was still alive even after three long years. After a moment of two of weeping into Naruto's shit, Tsunade rose and brushed herself off.
"My office, 5 minutes." Tsunade said with the most serious tone she could muster after her actions. Naruto chuckled as the blonde sanin shunshin away. Naruto turned to Majora and promptly kicked him awake.
"WHO WHAT WHERE WHEN OH GOD SHYVANNA PLEASE NOT AGAIN." Majora said jumping up and then cowering in fear.
Naruto sighed as the familiarly of this scene.
*flash back*
It was the beginning of their second year traveling together and Majora decided it was time Naruto met his wife Shyvanna.
Majora and Naruto stood outside a fair sized one story house. Both studying it for various reasons, Naruto's being why he was there.
"Alright Naruto today you are going to meet my wife." Majora said. Naruto's mouth dropped but he didn't say anything.
"Now few things you should know. One, do not piss her off. Two, see rule one. Three, never break rule one. Now I may be one of the most powerful men on the face of the earth but that women will still crush my skull like a walnut if it pleases her so just warning you." Majora said with a slight shiver as he opened the door. Inside was a woman, red hair braided down to her mid back and wore skin tight black shorts and whit t shirt and an apron, she was over a pot stirring what could only be assumed was soup.
"Shyvanna, honey, I am home, and I brought my friend Naru…" Majora was cut short as the woman tackled the man to the floor in a loving hug; they clashed lips and soon forgot Naruto was there. Naruto could only watch in embarrassment and slight horror as the continued and the woman broke the kiss away and whispers some things into Majora's ear that caused him to shake his head in disapproval, of course this only prompted the women who took Majora's foot and dragged him back to the bed room kicking and screaming.
And Majora continued to scream
For another 3 days.
Naruto had merely been sleeping on the couch and eating food in the fridge and the mean time and on the third day Majora came out of the bed room, clothes torn and tattered, limping, and without his pants.
But still his mask on.
"We are leaving before she wakes up." Majora said walking out the door.
"Majora you're not wearing any…"
"NOW NARUTO!" Majora said and they left in a full on sprint.
*flash back end*
Majora had faced hell and back again without flinching.
But the sight of his wife and her needs was enough to make him whimper.
Naruto sighed one last time and then they began their journey to the Hokage tower.