Hi everyone. I just came up with this recently, and i thought i would post it since i haven't posted anything in a while. I have no set schedule for updating this story so please bear with me. If there is something you would like to see happen PM me or put it in a review, and I'll see if i can work it in somewhere. Flames will be used to cook food for nice and helpful people. This chapter is just setting up for all future chapters and is apt to be edited at a later time.
To those who reviewed, your criticism was helpful, and i will be rewriting this chapter, though it will keep some the same plot. I am changing the things that need to be changed. Also i forgot to mention earlier that while Naruto may seem extremely over powered, he is only greatly overpowered, there is a difference, and the enemies i have planned will also be overpowered to compensate. Naruto will end up God-like, and if you don't like that, you don't have to read the story, though i have a reason for it.
This is my updated first chapter. I hope it meets your standards this time because I'm quite happy with it and will not be rewriting it again until later.
I forgot to put this in the last few update so: I own nothing in this story aside from the things I make up, all Naruto related content belongs to Masashi Kishimoto and all bleach related content belongs to Tite Kubo.
The roars of the Nine Tails could be heard for miles around the Leaf village. With each swing of its tails more shinobi fell, and with each attack it made countless others were left to be slowly poisoned by the demonic chakra seeping into their wounds.
"Summoning Jutsu!"
A large puff of smoke appears near the fox, almost equaling it in size. When it clears a large toad with a pipe in its mouth can be seen, a giant tanto in its hand.
"Minato! Why is the Fox here?"It exclaims angrily.
"I don't know why, but we must stop it all the same. You know what to do."Minato says, and then flashes away.
He reappears in a bedroom, standing over a newborn baby in a cradle. He carefully picks him up.
"I'm sorry Naruto, but I can't ask anyone else to do what I can't. I hope you can forgive me."Minato says, hugging his son for what would probably be the last time.
He then unseals a brush and ink bottle from a scroll and draws several seal formulas on Naruto's stomach. Naruto giggles happily when the brush tickles his skin.
When the last one is complete he unseals something else, this time from a seal on his right shoulder. He clutches it in his hand, and whispers something. A blue/white glow comes from his clenched hand, and whatever was in it disappears.
"I hope that works. If tonight goes the way I think it will, then you will need that power, my son."Minato whispers to the bay, even though he can't understand what he's saying.
He flashes back to the battlefield where the giant toad is still combating the fox. It now sports a large cut across one of its eyes, and that disability was making it harder and harder to keep the fox at bay.
"Bunta, I need your help with one last thing! Immobilize the fox and I'll take care of the rest!"Minato yells to his summon creature. He had already planned for this, and everything else was set.
Bunta jumped high into the air and made a few hand signs.
"Water style! Toad water bullets!"He yells, shooting five giant balls of chakra laced water at the demon fox. They strike it directly in the face so it can't react fast enough to escape when Bunta lands on top of it.
Faster than lightning Minato appears next to his summon animal, and just as quickly disappears with the fox in tow. Bunta then puffs away, exhausted from his battle, and in need of some medical treatment.
Minato and the fox appear in a vast plain, many miles away from the Hidden leaf, though they are not alone there. Sitting against a large stone is a woman with blood red hair, and a giant hole in her chest. She coughs weakly, though when she sees the fox, makes a hand sign.
Nine orange chains of chakra sprout from her lower back and ensnare the fox, which roars in defiance.
"Minato…why is…Naruto…here?"She pants out between shallow breaths.
"I have to seal the fox inside him with the Reaper Death Seal; it's the only thing strong enough to contain it."Minato says
"You can't, I won't let my baby go through being a Jinchuriki."She cries, but then starts coughing up blood.
"Kushina, I have to, but don't worry, I've made sure he won't have to grow up alone forever."Minato tells her, and then turns away.
He places Naruto down and makes the hand signs. A small pedestal appears, and he places Naruto onto it. Moments after the air grows cold and the smell of death permeates the area.
Behind Minato a ghastly figure appears, wearing a white robe a blade in its mouth and a string of red beads in its hand.
Minato focuses on the fox and places his hands on the seal.
"Reaper Death Seal!"He exclaims, and the figure behind him extends his empty arm forward, through Minato and grasps the fox. In one motion it rips the fox's soul out of its body and into Minato, who directs it through himself into his son.
Then Minato beckons Kushina over, using his last few moments in the living world wisely.
They exchange a look, and understand each other perfectly. Minato makes several more hand seals.
"Eight Trigrams Seal."He whispers sealing all of his remaining chakra, as well as all of Kushina's into their son.
The Shinigami's blade descends, and severs what remains of Minato's soul.
Kushina falls with him, her last wish having been made, and all life having left with those last few whispered words.
Two of the greatest shinobi the Leaf had ever known, were dead.
Five years later (Naruto has shown an incredible mental growth rate, putting him at three years above his age level at the time being, meaning he is at about a second grade level.) For those who got what happened with the thing Minato had that glowed, don't spoil it, please, and I hope you will now understand why things happen as they do.
Naruto raced down the alley as fast as his five year old legs could carry him, hoping against hope that he would escape the mob that was chasing him. He turned a tight corner, and promptly ran into a wall. He picked himself up and started climbing said wall, his fingers slipping into the smallest cracks, finding every possible place to put his hands and feet.
"There it is, get it before it escapes."Naruto hears from below him. He's about ten feet up the wall, about halfway to freedom, and the mob catches up to him, and begins throwing whatever they can find to knock him off of his unsteady purchase.
A kunai embeds itself in his left shoulder, which makes him lose his grip with that hand.
Unfortunately that hand was the only thing holding him up at that time, as his foot had slipped.
He scrabbles to find a purchase in the wall before he falls, but before he can, more things hit him, and a kunai hits him in the thigh. He falls in front of two people wearing Chunin vests and holding kunai.
"Now we can have our revenge for what you did to our family."One of them says
"You took our sister's sight, so we'll take yours now."The other says.
They plunge the kunai knives into Naruto's eyes, not deep enough to kill him, but enough to destroy his eyes.
He screams in pain for a moment before he blacks out.
When he next opens his eyes, he feels no pain, but all he can see is darkness.
A light appears in that darkness, in front of him, and then splits into three. Each of the lights takes on a form.
One is standing roughly two-stories tall; he has red skin and blue hair which sticks up. He carries both a bolas and a sword. The second is humanoid, having black hair and tan skin, his eyes are closed, but he can faintly hear a slight buzz like noise coming from all around him. The third is female, of average height with perfectly white skin and warm brown eyes.
"Wh-who are you, and wh-where am I?"Naruto asks, scared of the people before him.
"You are in your mind, boy, but we must finish here quickly if we are to keep your body alive."The second man says the buzz still round him.
At Naruto's confused expression the woman begins to talk.
"We are a part of your bloodline, Naruto. Your father was in possession of a very rare bloodline, as was your mother, though the bloodlines are different. We are part of your father's side's bloodline, the blood of the Shinigami. It allows you to turns different aspects of your soul into swords. We are the spirits of the blades that you will posses."She says, her voice pleasant, and when she speaks Naruto can smell some kind of perfume around her.
Naruto just stands there for a minute processing what had just happened.
"Cat got your tongue, boy?"The larger man asks, fire coming from his mouth though his tone was calm.
"Time is of the essence, we must see if he's ready or he will die along with the bloodline gift."The second man says.
"Okay. Naruto we are going to introduce ourselves, if you can hear any of our names, please say them after. My name is…"She says, though Naruto can't hear the end.
"I am Te…"The large man says, though again Naruto doesn't hear the end.
"I am Suzumushi."The last man says, his eyes never having once opened.
"Suzumushi."Naruto whispers, and then has a warm feeling spread through his body.
The man glows, turning back into the light, and then into a sword in Naruto's hand.
It looks like a normal katana and the tsuba has a teardrop shape, with the base of the drop arcing over the top of the blade, and the point of the drop pointing below the cutting edge. A row of several tiny teardrop-shaped holes decorates the bottom of the curve, and a small ring, approximately 2" in diameter, dangles off the tip of the tear-drop.
He is suddenly sucked out of the space he was in, and back to reality.
The pain in his eyes returns, as scathing as before, though now Suzumushi is in his hand.
A cloud covers Naruto's mind, and he moves without telling himself to. He tries to move, but it was like someone else had hijacked his body, and he could only watch.
"Cry, Suzumushi."He whispers, and his blade produces a high pitched tone, though Naruto remains unaffected.
The mob falls to the ground, all unconscious, and Naruto follows suit, the cloud lifting from his mind, and the pain finally consuming him.
Several minutes later Hiruzen Sarutobi, the third Hokage, appears with an Anbu Squad, having felt an unknown power surge in this area.
When he catches sight of Naruto, he rushes over to him and kneels next to him.
When he sees what has happened to his eyes, Hiruzen's face hardens.
"I'm sorry Naruto, this is my fault. I thought I could trust the villagers on their own, but no more. From now on I take matters into my own hands."He says, tears forming in his eyes.
"Take all of these people to prison and then tell Ibiki to have some fun. If any of them resist kill them."He says coldly and then body flickers to the hospital with Naruto in his arms. Throughout that Naruto held onto Suzumushi, even though he wasn't conscious.
When the nurse at the desk sees him her mood fouls.
"I'm sorry sir, but we have no one available on duty to treat him."She says, thinking her excuse would work.
She is almost slammed into the ground when Hiruzen releases pure chakra and killing intent from his body. He leans in close to the nurse.
"Make someone available then."He says quietly and coldly.
She rushes off right after he lets the pressure up. He makes a signal, and an Anbu appears behind him.
"Summon the council, we have much to discuss."He tells the Anbu.
Several minutes later Hiruzen leaves Naruto with three of his most trusted Anbu officers to go to his council meeting.
(In Naruto's mind)
"What happened?"Naruto asks the three spirits.
"You used a portion of my power, and in a way that rarely happens. You unlocked the Shikai of my blade almost right after you learned my name, and you knew my release command without my telling you."Suzumushi says, his buzz still prevailing in the otherwise silent plane.
"But I didn't do anything, I couldn't move."Naruto says
The three spirits don't respond for a few moments.
"Is something wrong?"He asks, thinking he had done something wrong again.
"No, no. It's nothing, back to what we were talking about. You unlocked a Shikai at such a young age. I can tell that you will become one of the greatest bearers of this Kekkei Genkai to be seen for a long time."The female spirit says, getting slightly flustered in the beginning.
"What's a Shikai?"Naruto asks him, still confused.
"A Shikai is the first release of your sword, your Zanpakuto. It doubles your power, and gives you special abilities only available to your Shikai state. There is a level above Shikai, called Bankai, which increases your power from Shikai ten times over, giving you twenty times your normal strength, if not more so. Each Shikai and Bankai is original to one person, and cannot be achieved by any other Zanpakuto."Suzumushi says
"Yes Naruto, and now, as you have used the power of your soul; you should be able to hear our names. I am Sakanade."The female spirit says, having regained her composure.
"I am Tenken, and I am the most closely connected to your being Naruto. If you are injured, I am injured likewise, and vice versa. If I am injured you will sustain the same injuries."The fiery giant says, surprisingly gentle despite his appearance.
Naruto takes a few moments to comprehend what has just been said, and then explodes with happiness.
"Yay! I'm going to be the greatest ninja ever with you guys to help me!"He exclaims.
"Naruto, calm down, there is still one more being you must meet at this time. Follow me."Sakanade says, and then transforms into the floating light, which illuminates the darkness around them.
When it fades they are in a flooded sewer network, glowing with a faint red light that came from the one end of the hallway, the other end had a faint blue glow, but he was the only one that seemed to notice it.
Sakanade drifts in the direction of the red light, followed by Tenken and Suzumushi. Naruto rushes after them.
A few minutes later they stand before a giant cage. The three spirits take their forms again and beckon Naruto forward. When he is only a few feet from the cage a pair of slitted red eyes swiftly open.
Naruto hears a growl sound within the cage, and backs away in fright. A form slowly rises from the shadows and steps forward into the weak light.
It's a giant crimson fox with nine flowing tails stretching out behind it.
"Who dares to disturb my slumber?!" It roars angrily.
Naruto can't form coherent speech at the moment so he just squeaks.
The fox looks down at him, and at the three spirits that are with him.
"So my host has finally graced me with his presence, and he brought the most annoying spirits he could find with him. Why couldn't you bring the other one, then we would at least have something to mutually complain about." It grows, lying back down and closing its eyes.
"Nine Tails, you will come to some form of agreement with Naruto before this day is done. If not you will have to deal with the three of us."Tenken orders, his voice deep and resounding, but still calm and gentle.
"Why should I work with the little brat, he already gets enough help from me. I repaired his eyes to the fullest extent possible, even if they don't work anymore. I kept him alive all these years, and what did I get out of it?"
"Well this is your chance to change that. There must be something you can do that would benefit the both of you."Sakanade says, her voice seeming to persuade the fox to think about it.
The fox can't seem to decide between flooding the space with his chakra and killing the boy, or deciding to help. A slight ping is heard, and then it responds.
"There is one thing I can give him, for now at least so he doesn't die. Boy, come here."He roars to Naruto, who was hiding behind Suzumushi.
Naruto hesitantly steps forward, and then falls over when the fox extends a claw through the gate, and touches his forehead with it. Knowledge pours into his mind about something called 'Summoning Nine Masked Beasts'.
"When you require my assistance just declare 'Nine Mask Svāhā' and chant the nine Kuji-in. They are Sei, Byaku, Shu, Gen, Kū, Gyoku, San, Hoku, and Nan, in that order, and they will appear from the mandala rings bearing the kanji for the Kuji-in. Their names are, also in order, Seiryū, Byakko, Suzaku, Genbu, Kinja, Tennyo, Shinigami, Hokuto Sennin, and Nanto Sennin. They are equal in power to the One Tail, each bearing a tail of chakra, so when all are returned to you when they are defeated, I will appear from the gathered tails. They will all wear a mask, as will you when they are summoned. The mask will remain behind after the technique is over, and only an attack of equal or greater power will shatter it."The fox tells him, and the retreats back into the cage to its slumber.
"He was chattier than usual today."Sakanade says
"All the better, he gave us what we needed from him."Tenken says
Naruto speaks then, a bit confused by what just happened.
"Why is the Nine Tails here, I thought the Fourth Hokage killed him a long time ago?"
"The Nine Tails, as well as all the other tailed beasts cannot be killed, being only masses of chakra, they can only be sealed within a container. That container is you Naruto, and in the future you should be able to access the full power of the Nine Tails within you."Sakanade informs him.
"That is beside the point, now you must awaken so we may begin training you in our powers, as well as the others of your clan."Suzumushi says
He places a hand on Naruto's head and he falls asleep.
(In the real world with Hiruzen after he left Naruto.)
Hiruzen walked into the council room, the change in his demeanor evident to the clan heads, and some of the civilians, Teuchi Ichiraku especially.
"What is the meaning of calling this meeting so late Sarutobi?!"Noriko Haruno screeches.
A kunai plants itself near her head, silencing her.
"I called this meeting to inform all of you that there will be some changes happening around here."He says quietly and coldly. His tone catches the attention of the clan heads, who haven't heard that tone for many years.
"What changes did you have in mind Lord Third?"Shikaku Nara asks
"The standards for our genin have dropped considerably from what they once were. They are being raised to higher than they have ever been. Our strength has fallen too greatly to remain where we are."He begins
"What?! You can't do that! Only the council as a whole can decide if that motion passes."A fat councilman says, which earns him a kunai through his hand.
He screams in pain, and the civilian council looks at him with mixed emotions of fear, relief, and anxiety.
"I am the council, and you would do well to remember that. I have the final decision on everything we do, not the other way around."Hiruzen growls to the man.
The remainder of the meeting passes with only three arrests, though the Haruno woman is still there. It is decided that standards are to be raised, and the academy minimum graduation age is to be set at fourteen instead of twelve. All Chunin and Jonin will be given a test to meet the requirements of their status.
Then Hiruzen went back to the hospital to see Naruto and found him sitting up.
"Hello Naruto, how are you feeling?"He asks
"I'm well enough."He says, having grown mentally when he used the Shikai of Suzumushi.
"I am very sorry about what happened today Naruto, but I have made sure that it can never happen again. I just wish I had done so earlier. I hope you can forgive an old man for what he did."He says, not expecting Naruto to forgive him, as he was going to be permanently blind.
"I forgive you. If it hadn't happened I would never have unlocked my father's Kekkei Genkai."Naruto responds, thinking on the brighter side of the situation.
"Kekkei Genkai? What would that be?"Hiruzen asks, and looks to his Anbu officers, but they say nothing.
"My three swords are a part of my Kekkei Genkai."Naruto says holding up Suzumushi as well as the other two proudly in his tiny hands. The first is a standard katana and the cross-guard is a rectangle decorated with a pattern of vertical lines, with the long sides pinched in towards the middle. The overall appearance is similar to a squared-off hourglass. The second is another standard katana, the hilt and sheath are red, and its guard is shaped like an hourglass.
"Well they all seem beautifully crafted and I hear that your father was very powerful because of this ability. It was just a rumor until you just confirmed it for me."Hiruzen breathes, thinking he would never see if it was true. The rumor had been that the Hokage was in possession of a very powerful Kekkei Genkai with unknown abilities. Another rumor had said that his Hiraishin was a part of this Kekkei Genkai, but that rumor was diffused when the Fourth had taught it to a squad of Jonin. He would have to look into it.
"So when can I enter the academy, I'm really excited to become a Ninja now. My Zanpakuto told me I have another Kekkei Genkai waiting to awaken too, so I'm even more excited."Naruto says happily, and Hiruzen's face falls.
"I'm sorry Naruto, but with the condition of your eyes, I cannot knowingly let you become a ninja. It would be much too dangerous for you out in the world."Hiruzen says.
The cloud descends over Naruto's mind again before he can think of something to say. Naruto feels several pulses of energy exit his body, and feels very tired afterward. He tries to move or speak, but just like the other time, he can't control his limbs.
"Give me three kunai, and I'll prove that I can be a ninja."Naruto's voice says without his conscious action, extending his hand in the Hokage's direction.
Hiruzen doesn't move, thinking that Naruto wouldn't know how to handle a kunai even if he could see, but right now, it wasn't Naruto in control.
A slight ping is heard again, this time in reality.
Hiruzen reluctantly hands the blind boy three kunai. Naruto holds two in his right hand and one in his left. He throws the two first, straight ahead at one of the Anbu's positions, and then the one, which hit and redirected the two in the direction of the other Anbu, while the one kept going towards the first. They catch them without trouble, but…
Hiruzen has a shocked expression on his face, as do the Anbu under their masks.
"Still think I'm incapable?"Naruto asks, sending out another pulse of energy.
Hiruzen sighs and shakes his head.
"I will allow you to join the academy, but I will promise nothing beyond that."Hiruzen states with a note of finality.
The cloud lifts from Naruto's mind, again knocking him unconscious from its effects.
Time skip several weeks later. Naruto has tried using the energy he felt, and eventually managed to feel it around him. It takes all of his concentration however to get even the slightest feel of it, though he does get a hazy, indistinct picture when it happens.
Naruto sat in the back of the classroom after he walked in, and silently poured all his concentration and energy into getting a picture of the classroom. He had bumped into more than a few things after the Anbu the Hokage had sent to bring him here left
He 'saw' Sasuke Uchiha being crowded by his fan girls, and also him not reacting or moving from his brooding position in any way whatsoever.
Hinata Hyuga was staring at him and trying unsuccessfully to hide it, as every time she looked at Naruto her blush deepened.
Kaede Inuzuka was talking to her dog about how much weaker everyone else was.
Shikamaru Nara was sleeping while Choji Akimichi munched on some chips next to him.
Sakura Haruno and Ino Yamanaka were fawning over Sasuke.
Shino was… being Shino. Naruto decided that he was a good person to be friends with. Naruto adjusted the cloth around his eyes and walked over to him.
"Hello Shino, how are you today?"He asks politely after bumping into the table trying to find the bench.
Shino gives him a questioning look, though he stops when he realizes Naruto has a bandage over his eyes.
"I'm well Naruto. I'm curious, why are you wearing a bandage over your eyes?"
"I'm blind now Shino, my eyes will never see anything ever again, but I have other ways of surviving. I had to prove that just to attend the academy."
"What are you talking about?! You can't be blind!"Kaede exclaims walking over to sit with them, not believing Naruto's story.
Naruto sighs and unties the bandage around his eyes, revealing the sightless orbs that were his eyes. The normal blue was dimmer and cloudier than it usually was, or so Naruto was told.
"Wow, how can you be a shinobi if you can't see?"Kaede asks
"I have other ways of finding my way around."Naruto replies retying the bandage.
They would have talked more, but just then their instructor, Iruka Umino walked in with his assistant Mizuki.
Iruka was tanned man with brown hair and a scar across his nose, and Mizuki was about the same age as Iruka, probably late twenties or early thirties, and had grey hair. Kaede described them in detail to Naruto, as she thought he couldn't tell anything at all about them, though he was thankful.
After the academy, in Naruto's crummy apartment
He sat in a meditative position, slowly but surely entering the place inside his mind where the spirits of his Zanpakuto lived.
"Hello Naruto, is it time for training again already?"Sakanade asks, having been sleeping most of the day.
"Yes, I still can't feel the field of spiritual energy on command, and I can't become a shinobi until I do."Naruto responds, enjoying the feeling of sight within his mind.
"Well the only thing I can tell you is to keep doing the exercises we told you about before."Sakanade says, and before Naruto can argue, she disappears.
Naruto sighs and looks around. He is in the same corridor that he had been in the first time he entered his mind. To his right was the fox's cage, and to his left was the strange blue light he had yet to explore. Having nothing he deemed better to do, he decided to finally investigate the light.
He enters a room much smaller than the fox's cage, but still very large. In the center of the room is a pedestal. Naruto walks up to it, and sees a bluish purple faceted orb. He touches it in curiosity, and the instant he does he feels several fields of energy around him, which shocks him into letting go.
"It took you long enough to come here."Someone says from behind Naruto. He whips around, and sees a man standing there. He has longish black hair and dark blue eyes. He wears a strange white form fitting, high collared tunic.
"Who are you?"Naruto asks, more curious than afraid since he could summon his Zanpakuto spirits for help in an instant when he was within his mind.
"You still don't know, and yet you've spent two weeks learning from them, disappointing. I am the mental embodiment of your mother's Kekkei Genkai, I am a Quincy."He says, his voice dripping with disapproval.
(A/N: He's wearing the traditional Quincy outfit, according to the wiki.)
"What do you know about my mom?"Naruto asks, now openly staring at the man before him, not quite registering the disapproving tone.
"I know quite a bit, as would you if you had come sooner. Now she'll have to tell her story all over again."The Quincy says irritably.
"What?"Naruto says, confused completely and utterly.
"Maybe it would be better if we told this story."A feminine voice says behind the young boy.
Naruto whips around and sees…
So how was it, I'm curious. Also, do you want this be a harem story. I can make it one, but the rating will stay as it is. Either way NarutoXKaede will be the first pairing to happen.
I hope the chapter is better now in your opinions, not just mine. I know that was a terrible cliffhanger cause it wasn't really a cliffhanger, and it still moves pretty fast, but I'm happy with it. Constructive feedback is still welcomed for working at a later date.
-Divine Justice