Yo.
So first off, I do not own the masterpiece that is Naruto or anything else that is even remotely related to it. If I did, I would be one happy and rich man, but I don't so I still cry my rivers to try and make up for it.
Second is that this new story will have a not so solid update pattern since I still have my Star Wars story to work on as well so updating them will be switch with one then the other once the new chapter is up for it. So please be patient with it please and if you haven't already, give my other story a read if you like Star Wars and Qui-Gon Jinn, if you don't then go do something else then.
Third, I will being using mostly the anime names for any Jutsu's that will appear in this fanfic as personally I prefer them better the majority of the time.
Finally, there is going to be some romance in this story for our lovable (or hateable if you're one of those people who for some reason is still reading this even though being told not to) blonde hero but I'm having some trouble deciding on who to do. So as it stands I have an idea at least for Hinata (I know, so common but there you go), Fū (which I've heard of and found the idea interesting) and fem Sasuke (... ok yeah that one's a little weird but then so am I so just roll with it I guess) for this romance.
So since I'm terrible with multiple choices, just write a review or message me on which one you would prefer to read about more and from that I will be able to work it in to the story after I have put the new chapter on my other story so make up your minds and tell me.
And now, here I present to you my first Naruto fanfic. I hope you enjoy it (unless you hate Naruto with a passion, which again, why are you still reading this then? You have been warned twice before this so why!?)
Chapter 1: The Sage's Gift
Naruto looked around the tree that he was hiding behind and saw his sensei Iruka sitting against a tree, the pain from the wounds that he had received earlier was clearly written across his face, as Mizuki stood away from him by a couple of meters. A fūma shuriken was spinning viscously within his hands, its ferocity being matched by the almost mad glint in his eyes.
'You're finished!' he shouted at Iruka, breaking the silent of the forest around as he hurled the deadly weapon against his old friend.
For Naruto, the fūma shuriken and everything around it began to move in slow motion as a thousand thoughts ran though his mind, all of them centring on the secrets that were revealed to him less than half an hour ago. The fact that Mizuki's test was nothing but a lie so that he could just use the forbidden scroll of seals to gain power and blame it all on him after he kill him and the fact that the reason that everyone hated him throughout his life was because he had the nine tailed fox, a tailed beast, sealed within him. But the thing that affected him the most was Iruka's speech about how he didn't see Naruto as a monster reincarnated but as an actual person who worked hard, even if he messed up when it came to the basic clone jutsu.
And to Naruto, someone who has received nothing but hate filled eyes for all his life, someone who had felt the true pain of loneliness and never felt the love of a parent, when he has someone who does care about and see's him as just him, like the old man Third, Teuchi, Ayame and Iruka, he would protect them. He would protect those few who are precious to him, after all, how could he become Hokage if he couldn't even protect those he cared for most.
'No, I won't let this happen!' He thought with determination as he began to move to unleash his rightful fury against the older chūnin for even thinking of hurting his sensei, but before he even took a step in the right direction, he stopped as almost all of his anger and need to protect Iruka fell away. They didn't disappear, they were still there, but they gave way to a new feeling of shock and a raising concern for his mental health.
Now, Naruto knew that he wasn't the most observant person back at the academy, but even he could tell that something was wrong. Why, you may ask? Because what Naruto saw was that everything around him was moving so slowly, as if time just decided to move like thick mud instead of flowing like the purest of water. The fūma shuriken, that had made it about half way to where Iruka was, was softly twirling in a lazy manner when only moments ago it was spinning with an incredible amount of ferocity. Mizuki was frozen in place, his arm still out stretched along with his body showing that he had just thrown the large shuriken, that almost mad and cruel look was still the only thing showing on his features. Iruka was still against the tree though his eyes had started to slowly widen with the realisation of what was coming at him and what he probably thought would kill him.
'Do not worry young Uzumaki; you are not losing your sanity.' A calm but deep and gravelly voice spoke out behind Naruto, causing the young jinchuuriki to turn around in surprise so quickly that he fell on his lower back and looked at the stranger with the same shocked expression. What he saw was an old man, his face heavy with lines, wearing a plain white robe with six black commas like symbols around the neck of it, all of it seemed to be designed for a monk yet from the look of it was rather old in design. He also had what seemed like the same six black comma like symbols attached to a necklace hanging loosely around his throat, though it was hard to tell since its hiding behind the high collar of his robe along with his long goatee beard, it being the same light brown of his light brown spiky hair.
Although this stranger had two rather strange features that really captured Naruto's attention. The first was that he was sitting down with his legs crossed; now normally this wouldn't have been an issue for the young blonde, most people do sit down every once in a while, but they normally touched the ground while they were doing so. This person however was at least a meter off the ground with nothing that seemed to hold him there, the only thing below him were 9 orbs made from some dark material the seemed like all the darkness of the night was concentrated into these orbs giving them there colour. And again, they were neither touching the floor or the man above them.
The second feature, and the most imposing, was the man's eyes. They weren't like any normal eyes he had seen before; to start with they were completely one solid colour of purple with no other colour in sight, but there was still a single black dot in the centre of the eyes each with a set of black rings surrounding it in a ripple pattern. But it wasn't just the look of the eyes that was unnerving, they screamed with power, like just behind the eyes was a hidden storm that could tear apart the world if it was unleash yet they also shinned with a sense of calm and tranquillity that controlled the ever raging storm.
'W-Who are you? What have you done to my sensei?' Naruto asked, first starting out nervous since those eyes of the stranger were so overwhelming in their presence alone but gained a more confident and angry tone when he thought that Iruka was in danger.
'Calm yourself Naruto; nothing has happened, at least not yet. What you are seeing around you is what is happening in the physical world but this' he said while he gestured to the area around them. 'is what your mind is perceiving at this moment where it is receiving images and information from your eyes so quickly that if you were able to realise all the information that you were attaining then this is what you would see. But normally you can't which leads to the passage of time from your point of view. But when you are able to read all the information, your experience of time starts to slow down when compared with a normal persons point of view. Now as for who I am, my name is...' the stranger would have continued but paused when he saw the absolute confusion on Naruto's face.
'What?' Naruto asked, having no idea what he had just said. This caused the person in front of him to sweat drop slightly, but there was a hint of a small smile on his lips.
He reminds me of Asura. He thought to himself with some fondness. 'What I mean is for the time being, time has slowed down around us so that we can talk if only for the moment. Now my name is Hagoromo Ōtsutsuki, but though out time I have been called the Sage of Six Paths.'
There was silence for a few moments, if everyone else there were aware of the fact that the very creator and god of ninjutsu was before them, they would have been shocked to their core, seeing the person who was a myth in the flesh, seeing that he was actually real and not part of some conjured legend. Everyone would have immediately shown him the greatest of respect and worship him as the god that they saw him as, trembling at all the things that the ancient and powerful being before them could do with a mere wave of his hands.
All except Naruto, who merely looked at him with nothing but confusion, again. 'Who?'
He reminds me too much of Asura. The now revealed sage thought with a sweat drop, but regained his composure in a moment to continue his conversation with the young boy. 'For the time being, that isn't important, but what I came here for is.'
'And that would be?' Naruto, genuinely curious about why he was there talking to him.
'I came here to give you a gift, but whether you gain this gift or not remains to be seen as it hangs on my question to you. Now, let's say that you defeat your opponent, that afterwards you gained so much power that you become the greatest ninja that this world has ever seen, that cause entire armies to fall and bring nations to their knees. My question to you, young Uzumaki, is what would you do with this power? What would you do to those in your village that has shunned and hated you your entire life simply for existing with what they call a demon sealed within you?'
'So, what is your answer Naruto?' The aged sage asked the young boy in front of him in a curious voice. After all who could blame him for doing so? He hadn't done anything like thing since his mortal death so long ago when ninshū slowly but surely became the weaponized version it was today, ninjutsu and ever since then, he had only watched from afar how the world slowly changed into its warring states and later villages that held greater wars. And throughout that entire time, he didn't step in, hoping that they would eventually find peace, hoping that everyone would one day live in harmony. He never, since the beginning of all of this, even intervened with the life of any of his son's reincarnations before, letting them build their friendships, hoping that it would last, where it eventually fell apart with clashing ideology. The last time being between Hashirama and Madara and everyone in the world has heard what happened between.
But there was something about Naruto that changed his passive stance and decided to take a chance on the young blonde, some quality that made him to do something that he hasn't done before with his gift. This wasn't the first time that he had granted someone a gift, no, he had given others chakra before along with his powers to his youngest son but this would be different, this could and probably will change some many things in such a large way, in either way. For great good and peace, or for great evil and destruction.
And either outcome solely rested on the decision of the blonde in front of him, who took a moment to think over the sage's question. He didn't have to wait long before the young boy looked straight in to the old sage's eyes with determination before speaking. 'Look, I don't understand what is happening right now or why your here just to give me a gift, although I'll admit that I don't know about a lot of things. But the one thing that I do understand is how important a precious person is. I don't have a lot of them but that doesn't matter. Jiji, Teuchi, Ayame and Iruka-sensei, they all care about me and no matter what happens I will always protect them with everything I've got and if that isn't enough then I'll just get stronger so that I can. And as for the people in this village, I'll show them that I'm not the damn fox and that I will show them that I can become the Hokage. Believe it!'
Hagoromo took a moment to look at the young blonde before him, before a sincere smile grow on his lips. 'That, Uzumaki, was a good answer. One that I believe deserves a certain reward.' As he said this, he raised an arm towards Naruto's face, hovering inches away from his eyes. 'Now, when I have finished time will continue on like nothing had ever happened, with only you being able to recall the events that have transpired here this night between us. Once time has resumed its normal fluidity, my gift to you will activate and you will act on instinct which will save your sensei's life, after which it will deactivate and hide its self away before anyone can see it, though your opponent might catch a small glimpse of it but he will most likely forget the fact after you defeat him. He does, after all think too highly of himself to even notice a change.'
'Oh and one last thing.' He continued before he gave the greatest gift that he could give a person. 'For time being, tell no one about this gift or how you received it. But we will meet again later tonight so I can tell you in detail what this gift can do and afterwards, it will be your chose to reveal it to anyone else.'
Naruto looked at the unmoving hand in front of him, so close that normally he would have moved away from it if it was anyone else, but stayed calm before this stranger. 'Ok.' He replied, before something inside of himself told him to close his eyes as the hand moved forward and he complied.
It wasn't all going to plan Mizuki realised. The first thing that had gone wrong was that bastard of a friend Iruka getting in the way of retrieving the forbidden scroll of seals, something that would have given him almost unthinkable power and, through the scroll, get in to the good graces of Orochimaru and grain even more power. Then, because of that fool, the damn demon run away in to the forest with his prize and leaving him without a scapegoat, but it didn't matter. He still had plenty of time before any of the Leaf's Anbu or other high ranking ninja from showing up and besides, he was practically doing them all a favour by killing the damn little monster for them.
But before that, he had to kill Iruka and the fūma shuriken that was barrelling towards him sealed his fate. That is until, out of nowhere a blur of orange appeared in front of the deadly ninja tool, shielding the weakling he called a sensei and raised a single hand towards the weapon before saying two small words that he had almost missed hearing.
'Almighty Push.'
Immediately after those words were uttered, the large shuriken in front of him crashed against an immersive amount of invisible force that it flung the fūma shuriken or course and flew towards several trees where it sliced cleanly through them all, causing them to fall and crash against the dirt floor. But before Mizuki could even recognise what had happened, he felt as if a rhinoceros had charged with reckless abandonment in to his chest, causing him to spit out some blood while he smacked in to and through the large tree that was behind him, leaving a small trail in the ground from where he practically burrowed in the ground.
So as he laid in his small crater, unconsciousness gracing him with its blissful presence, there was one thought that ran through his mind. How? But if he had taken the fraction of the second that he had while still aware, he would have caught a small glimpse of light purple, hidden within the shadow casted over Naruto's eyes.