The Divine Authority of the Gods. Such an august title for what appeared to simply be a time-space ninjutsu. One side sent you away into essentially nothingness and the other phased you away into your own not-space pocket.
But, as Naruto found out, using them in conjunction did oh so much more.
It had been three years since the Shinobi Alliance had managed to defeat the Uchiha and the Juubi. Shion had appeared and sealed away the Juubi using Divine Chakra, something unique to her line, and threw the beast back to the moon. This allowed Maradra to be sealed, and Tobi to be defeated.
She had then promptly informed Naurto it was time for him to make good on his promise.
Hinata had been less than pleased.
After Shion was confirmed pregnant, she had returned to Oni no Kuni and left Naruto to his own devices. Which meant Hinata.
They had given it a go, and after about seven months broke it off. Hinata was too in love with the 'Golden Naruto' ideal to make it work. Hanabi had been glad to step in, much to everyone's surprise.
Naruto had been offered Hokage, but he had declined saying he needed more experience in leading. Kakashi had eye-smiled at the wisdom of his student's words until he realized that meant he had to be Hokage with Tsunade's death.
Kakashi then put Naruto through every single leadership course and sent him on missions as the leader every chance he got. Naruto quickly jumped through the ranks and into ANBU. It was on an ANBU patrol that the crazy went down.
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"Tobi?!" Naruto shouted in surprise.
"I hate that name," the Uchiha spat out along with a grand fireball.
As the two traded justsu and occasionally blows, Kakashi high-tailed it to the scene. When he got there he saw a Naruto swinging a Fuuton: Rasengan into Tobi. Thinking it was a Shadow Clone, Kakashi used Kamui to warp the 'Shadow Clone' into Tobi's not-space.
It had been Naruto.
That was when the world collapsed in on itself.
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Naruto decided this technique really sucked. It hurt getting in here and then it was boring. Tobi had never shown up.
"This blows," Naruto groused from behind his Gama mask, before removing it and sealing it away.
"Yup," Kurama agreed, "This is what being inside a seal is like. Whole lotta nothin'."
Naruto sighed and looked around. There was a speck of light way off in the distance.
"Think I should see if I can get there?"
Kurama shrugged inside his seal.
"It could be far beyond any distance you've ever travelled, or it could be a single... shushin... away."
Kurama face palmed. It really had been a single shushin away. Naruto had taken inititive and moved before Kurama had been done speaking.
Before Naruto was a small sphere, perhaps the size of his fist. He shrugged and reached out to touch it.
"Wait, it could be-"
Naruto touched it and his world was redifined as pain.
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"About time. I've been looking for a way to send you back to save our people since you were born. Now, go be a good little Uzumaki and save the rest of my descendents."
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Mito huffed. Why did her Daddy insist on bargaining with the Senju? She didn't want to marry Harashima, he was thirty-five to her fifteen! She was already going to outlive him even if he wasn't a ninja.
Mito kicked a rock into the ocean. And why did Harashima have to choose her? There were a dozen other Uzumaki women making cow eyes at him! All of them older than her, and more experienced. She wanted to scream.
As it turned out it was a good thing she didn't otherwise she might have missed the gigantic plop of something much bigger than a rock falling into the ocean. With wide eyes she peered into the waves. A brillant yellow head of hair surfaced momentarily before getting sucked back down.
"Hang on!" Mito screamed. Someone was drowning! She quickly summoned a messenger rabbit, "Go get someone form the village! There's somebody drowning here!"
The rabbit gave a quick salute and bounded off, as Mito ripped off her shoes and dove in. The water was cold and Uzu no Kuni's typical level of violent. Mito silently thanked Susa'wanoo that they were nowhere near a whirlpool.
'Where are they?' she thought as she dove deeper. The water was relatively clear and it was only about five to ten meters deep, but there were plenty of rocks and crevices. There! Thank Susa'wanoo his hair was so bright. But it looked as if his foot was caught in a cranny.
Mito swam up to him and gave a little tug, trying to dislodge him. It didn't work. She swam down to his foot to see if she could get it out easily or if she would have to cut it off. Luckily, it looked like she could just push it out. She pushed it out of the crevice, tearing skin and sinew, and releasing a cloud of blood.
Now she had to hurry before the sharks came.
Mito grabbed the man, it was very apparent now, and began to push for the surface. She made a face, he was heavy. Getting him up the cliff was going to suck if nobody had responed to her summons, but they were in the clear at this point.
She broke the surface with a great gasp of air. She had been almost out. A wet plop sounded right next to her. It was a rope. Mito smiled brilliantly and looked up. The smile turned into a scowl as the one who had thrown the rope was Senju Tobirama.
She gripped the rope and the man with a small application of chakra and called up.
"Pull us up!"
Thirty seconda later, Mito and the man were on top of the cliff and Mito began checking him over and seeing if he was breathing. She grimaced. He wasn't. She would have to give him CPR.
Tobirama just watched his brother's almost fiance. She acted cool in the face of adversity and stress. Another check in the 'Why Mito was the perfect girl' column for Hari-kun.
Mito realized that this would be her first kiss. But in light of her first kiss and this man surviving... Well Mito was okay with it. She went in to give him the kiss of life. Mito pushed air into his lungs and was rewarded with a mouthful of water. As she reeled back onto her butt, both she and the man sputtered.
The man rolled over and coughed violently, letting out the rest of the water in his lungs.
"Fuck drowning," he rasped.
Mito rolled back forward onto all fours.
"Mister, are you all right?"
"Yeah, Uzumaki Naruto doesn't stay.. down.. for... long," with that Naruto's eyes rolled back in his head and he fainted. Kurama, unbeknownst to anyone was laughing his ass off. He figured he'd give the kid a scare and not help until the last second. Afterall, Biju-empowered Naruto could survive not breathing. Still something niggled back in Kurama's mind.
Tobirama looked at Mito.
"He doesn't look like any Uzumaki I know."
"Me either," Mito responded dumbly, watching his ankle heal at a rate only her clansmen could.
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Uzumaki Akinori frowned at the man on the bed. He looked like he came from Lightning Country, with that bright yellow hair. But his facial structure said 'Uzumaki,' or perhaps 'Senju,' but given the clear blue eyes Akinori would have to settle on 'Uzumaki.' Given his youngest's account of how fast the nasty wound on his ankle healed, he should be a 'lost' Uzumaki, and it would be very unlikely that he would know he was an Uzumaki.
But...
It was possible.
The healers had said that his body showed signs of severe crush type injuries, he was healed from them now, a day after his discovery, but his chakra would be low and he would likely be out for another day.
Using one of the clan's secret seals, they measured his chakra. It wasn't low. They started slapping chakra suppressors on him like one would throw candy at a Damiyo's parade.
Akinori rubbed the bridge of his nose. Mito had been asking to see him since daybreak. Perhaps while he was still out. Akinori walked away, his faith in the supressors and restaining seals unwavering.
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Mito beamed at her father.
"Thank you, Daddy!" she said and she hugged him. She let go and bounded down the halls to the detention infirmary.
"You're.. welcome..." Akinori sighed. Why did his youngest have to be a girl? They were so hard to raise. His wife had borne him six handsome and strong sons, he supposed he owed her a daughter. But even then...
Akinori really hated this generation of Senju.
He walked steadily after his daughter.
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Mito stopped hard infront of the door and took a breath, he was healing and still unconsious.
She slid open the door and wasn't greeted by a sleeping man but a man sitting up in bed studing the chakra suppressor tag in his hand.
"Huh, never would've thought of spirialing the chakra back into the seal to strengthen it gradually, too bad they didn't lay it out in a matrix or have a fail safe if someone forced too much into them," he heard Mito gasp and turned his head to the sound.
Naruto smiled brightly and rubbed the back of his head.
"Uh, hey there."
Mito gaped and just pointed, her mouth flapping like a fish.
"Hello?"
"Howdidyoudothatyouhadliketwe ntysupressors?Howareyouevenmovingyoureinju rieswereterribleandyouwereun derarestraintseal?ImUzumakiMitoandyousaidyouwe reUzumakiNarutobutyourenotin theclanregister!" she babbled, before realizing she had been babbling and blushed prettily.
"Umm..." Naruto scratched the back of his head sheepishly, "I have a lot of chakra and can force most supressors to overload; I heal fast, like really, really fast and its a trade secret; and I am Uzumaki Naruto, I've never heard of any Uzumaki Mito though, so how do I know you're not lying?"
Naruto gave her a mocking evil eye.
"I am too Uzumaki Mito! I've been Uzumaki Mito since I was born! And you're," Mito pointed at him sharply, "The one not in the clan register."
Naruto tilted his head to the side and spaced out, finding himself in a sewer.
"Kid," Kurama looked like he was about to hyperventilate.
"Yes, furball?"
"That really is Uzumaki Mito. You would know her as Senju Mito. She was my first container and the wife to your first Hokage."
Naruto looked up at Kurama with incredulity.
"You mean we went back in time from touching that orb?"
"Divine Authority of the Gods, kid. Kinjutsu of that level usually have a bit of truth to their name. Ameterasu really does summon the black flames of heaven. There is some god that wants you here, now."
"So I should play this out how?"
"Keep the fact your from the future close to your chest. Try telling the clan head. Other than that, stay away from that devil!" Kurama pointed down at Naruto with a shaking paw/hand.
Naruto suddenly found himself back in reality with Mito waving in front of his face and a wary looking man garmed in old style shinobi armor. Naruto blinked and leaned away from Mito.
"Mito, was it? I'd rather not give anyone a reason to attack me, so if you could go stand by..." Naruto looked at the man.
"You shall address me as Uzumaki-sama," Akinori supplied tersly.
"Go stand by Uzumaki-jiji and I'll start answering some questions so I might be able to leave this cell," Naruto smiled brightly.
Akinori's eyebrow twitched. He was only fifty for Susa'wanoo's sake! That was young for an Uzumaki!
Mito obliged and smiled back at Naruto.
"Mito is the one who saved you," Akinori began. Naurot flashed Mito another smile and a thumbs up. Mito giggled at his silliness. Akinori continued loudly, "She tells me that before you passed out you claimed to be Uzumaki Naruto. You are not on our clan register, nor do you look like any of my kinsmen. Who are you really?"
"I've been Uzumaki Naruto since I can remember having a name. Don't know anything about any clan or clan register," Naruto said, "Always just thought it was a name."
The seal hidden under Naruto's mattress thrummed through its partner seal clasped in Akinori's hand. The young man was telling the truth.
"Where are you from?"
"I have a feeling my village doesn't exist right now..." Naruto looked down at his hands.
Mito gasped softly. He had lost his entire village?
"My sensei used a technique on me thinking I was a clone during a battle and next thing I know I was drowning."
The seal thrummed again. Akinori sighed.
"You are to remain in this room, food will be brought to you, and a guard will be posted. As a gesture of good faith, I will allow Mito to visit, but she will sit here," Akinori looked at his daughter sternly and pointed to a chair across the room from Naruto, "And will be behind a barrier."
"Yes, Father," Mito bowed her head.
"Wow, thanks! I was thinking you were gonna send her away and start torturing me!" Naruto said with a big grin.
Akinori looked at Naruto exasperatedly.
"If you aren't really an Uzumaki, I'll eat my boots. I must go gather the clan elders and decide what to do with you. Until then, do not test us further than you have."
Naruto chuckled and rubbed the back of his head, "Sure thing Uzumaki-jiji."
Akinori guided his protesting daughter out of the room and went to find someone to post outside of the hospital cell.
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Uzumaki Kaito stood outside the open door to the detainee's cell, while he chated away with the Clan Head's daughter, Mito. She was properly behind her barrier, something she was quite gifted with, and the detainee was sitting on the bed, glad to have some pants.
They were currently swapping stories of the countryside. The detainee sounded like he had been just about everywhere in the Elemental Countries with his late sensei, a man named Jiraiya, who was apprently also quite the pervert.
Mito, in turn, told the detainee about the wonderful reefs and dangerous eddies that gave their people, their village, and their country its name.
Still, Kaito mused, the lad had to have been a ninja. No non-ninja could tell stories like these and leave out all sorts of important details. So much had been said and so little learned. If you believed everything the detainee had said at face value, he was apprenticed to an author and fuinjutsu master and was quite accomplished in both areas himself. The first as a ghostwriter for the series he had yet to name, and as an fifth dan journeyman in the second.
The conversation turned to fuinjutsu theory and Kaito had to tune them out.
"Uzumaki seals are very different from the 'standard' seals. All the spirals, instead of lines with squiggles," Naruto explained to Mito, who had never been exposed to 'standard' fuinjutsu.
"But you said earlier that you didn't know anything about an Uzumaki clan existing," Mito countered, trying to catch him in a lie.
"I thought it was just a style of fuinjutsu, my sensei learned both when he was young, and he made it sound like a different way of doing the same thing," Naruto chuckled with his hand on his head.
Mito thought the gesture was too cute for words and wanted to squeal everytime he did it.
"Though I've found the Uzumaki method to generally be more efficient. My sensei's old partner tried devoloping his own fuinjutsu style and it was horrible. Fifteen sysmbols or more for what even in standard only took five. It was good for mind control seals and the like though, which had been his intention."
Naruto scowled at the thought of Orochimaru.
"That's horrible!"
Mito covered her mouth with her hand at the thought of someone (Harishima) controlling her.
"He was a horrible and unrepentant bastard. Anyways, I specialize in body modification seals, you?"
Mito smiled and gestured to the almost invisible bubble around her.
"Barriers. I can do almost anything with them, though sometimes the information I get from sensor barriers is hard to interpret."
Naruto put his chin on his fist, "Why don't you use a secondary seal to create a visual interpretation of the barrier's sphere of influence?"
Mito stared blankly at Naruto.
"You... You're good, you!"
He smiled and took a small bow, "Thank you, thank you."
"What kind of body modifications?" Mito brought up abruptly.
"Eh, things like weight and resistance seals, stuff that'll increase visual acuity, give you night vision. Basically given the right seal matrix I can emulate most bloodlines. But I don't try to do that since its really risky. I just use little seals to help augment what I do already. I use some others in my taijustsu style offensively."
"You can place seals without ink?"
"Yup, though it was a bitch to learn."
Kaito zoned back in and checked his watch.
"Mito-hime, your time is up."
Mito pouted but giggled when Naruto made a face at Kaito's back through the wall.
"I'll see you tomorrow, Naruto-kun!"
"Bye, Mito-chan!"
Mito left the room and Naruto could swear there was some sway to her hips that hadn't been there when she came in.
"Hey, uh, Kaito, right?"
Kaito peeked through the slits in the door as he closed it.
"Yeah?"
"She's the daughter of someone wicked important isn't she? And if she were to crush on me it would be very bad, yeah?"
"Yes."
"Fuck a duck."
Kaito resumed his post and chuckled internally, how would Mito-hime ever have a crush on an uncouth bastard like the detainee when she was practically engaged to Harishima-sama already?
"Hey Kaito?"
Kaito peeked in through the doors slits again.
"Yeah?"
"How do I get a girl to not like me?"
Kaito stared at the man on the bed through the slits, before going back to his post.
"Kaito? Kaito? C'mon man, help a brother out? I've never had to try to get a girl to like me! They always seem to like me even when I don't like them!"
A tic appeared in Kaito's forehead as the blonde in the cell kept rambling. It was like the kid already knew that Kaito had zero luck with the ladies.
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