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Chapter 1
Two travelers were making their way across Wind Country's vast desert on their way to Suna. "Dad how come you keep going back to Konoha like this when you can get a better deal for lumber elsewhere" Asked a 10 year old boy. "Because son, despite their higher prices and decrease in quality Fire Country wood is still thought of as the best you can buy" A man in his 30's replies. "That doesn't make any sense dad. Wood is wood plus even you admit they have lost quality while raising prices when other countries like Mori no Kuni(1) sell quality wood that is much more affordable" The boy says looking up at his father.
"The answer is very simple yet also complicated son. Regular people don't usually care about what's actually the best product. They care about what they're told is the best and to have what others deem is the best and want. Fire Country wood while not the best has the reputation as being the best from back during the days of their founder the 1st Hokage who was said to be able to create an entire forest in less than a day" The man says enjoying the shocked look on his sons face.
"No way dad that's impossible a man can't make a forest" The son says. "It is very possible son. We live in a major ninja village and I'm sure you have seen some of the strange and powerful abilities some of them display. There are some ninja's with extra special abilities that only they or a member of their family can do called kekkei genkai. The Third Kazekage was known for his kekkei genkai called Satetsu or Iron Sand. Well, Konoha is known as a haven for kekkei genkai wielders and the 1st Hokage like the 3rd Kazekage had a kekkei genkai that allowed him to manipulate the elements to create wood called Mukoton or Wood Release. With it he was able to create the forests surrounding Konoha" The man says.
"Wow … I wish I had a kekkei genkai" The boy says as he imagines all the different things his would do. The father just chuckled at the boy and continues to be on the look out for any sudden dust storms that are known to hit. "As I was saying due to this phenomenon the wood in fire country contains traces of chakra some more than others, which makes them ideal for puppet making a specialty of SUNA and more expensive even if we are allies" The man finishes a little bitterly.
The boy suddenly looked up at his father with shining eyes as he remembered something. "Dad can I use this wood to make my first puppet?" The boy asked hopefully. "Sorry son, but this wood is too expensive. I already have a ninja who's looking for a custom made puppet that paid extra for me to use Fire Country Wood and the design may cause me to use every bit of lumber we just bought" The father tries to explain. "Then can I harvest a few of the trees on our property?" The boy asked. "Now son how many times have I told you that any trees harvested on our property goes to the villages use. That's how our family has made a living for generations by supplying the wood from the trees on our fertile lands to the village" The father begins to lecture, but was interrupted.
"I know that dad, and the water that flows through our land is also sold to the village with the added benefit that we don't have restrictions on our use of it like the other citizens even the clans and nobles. But if I can't use the wood you just bought or the wood from the trees on our property what am I supposed to use so I can learn to make puppets like you dad?" The boy whined. 'If only he knew. You are going to be in for one hell of a surprise when we get home son' thought the man. "What have I told you Takumi?" He asked his son. "You tell me to stay patient and good things will happen tou-san(2)" The boy says in monotone.
The father ignores the mocking tone and nods with a smile at the answer. "I promise son that soon you will begin to learn the family craft of engineering puppets" The father says lifting the boy's spirits. Father and son continued their way through the scorching heat of the desert. They were less than a quarter of their way through the desert when the man looking to his left and thought he saw some movement. The man came to a stop and shushed his son as he watched the area he thought he saw the movement in, but all he saw was sand. Turning back to his son he saw it again, but this time he decided to walk towards where he thought he saw the movement.
As the man kept walking he suddenly heard a loud menacing growl that sounded like a very large dog, but he couldn't see it anywhere. Slowly walking forward the growling got louder until suddenly a mound of sand about four feet in height exploded as a large wolf snapped at him nearly catching his leg. It was obvious the wolf could have mauled him, but it only gave a warning. Looking at the wolf it was a sandy brown color from the tail to the back of it's ears, but looking at it's face startled him. The nose, muzzle, eyes, face, and the front of it's erect ears looked like they were covered in blood. Only one question ran through his mind, 'Blood of what though?' The man thought.
Unfortunately when he looked down to the large paws of the wolf he saw what he thought was the answer to that question. There at the feet of the large wolf was a blond haired, blue eyed boy that had 3 thin whisker like marks on the cheek he could see. The boy was half buried in the sand, but it looked like something had kept him from being completely submerged and consumed by the desert sand like so many other unfortunate souls that weren't prepared for the harshness of life in the desert. As he looked closer he could see a slight movement in the sand as it looked like the boys breath was shifting a nearly unnoticeable amount of sand grains away from his nose.
The man slowly moved closer, but the wolf lunged at him again making him jump back narrowly avoiding being bitten. The man held up his hands and slowly approached the boy again with his hands raised. "I mean no harm to you or the boy. I just want to make sure he's okay" The man said. Surprisingly to the man the wolf seemed to understand as it backed away slowly from the nearly submerged boy. The man slowly checked the boy and found him to be surprisingly okay once he pulled him out of the sand although his clothes showed signed of rips, tears, and had numerous holes in them of various sizes. He didn't even seem dehydrated just unconscious, but what caused that he couldn't tell. It was then he got another surprise that nearly gave him a heart attack.
"Will you take good care of the boy human?" The man heard. He looked around finding just him, his son, the unconscious boy, and the wolf. "I spoke to you human" The wolf clearly says. The man upon seeing this freaks out jumping back as far as he could as the wolf walked closer to the boy. "Y-y-you c-can talk" said the man fearfully. "Yes I can talk" The wolf says seemingly with a smirk.
"W-what a-are you?" The man asked. "I am Shun of the Blood Wolf Clan, a clan of greater demons or what you people refer to as summon creatures" The blood and sand colored wolf says. "What is a summons doing here in the desert looking over a boy?" The man asks now less afraid of the wolf. "I was sent here by the elders of our pack to watch the boy until a trustworthy human showed up to take care of him. He was left here to die, but the elders feel this one has too great a destiny to be allowed to perish. It has been a long time since the blood wolves have been called on and this young one's blood carries an ability that we feared long since gone from this world. I sense that you are from a ninja village. I ask that you take this young one with you and allow him to be one of you" the great wolf says.
The man thought about for a moment and nodded. "I will take him with me and assure his safety, but his becoming a ninja is not up to me. It will be up to the Kazekage and the boy himself as to whether or not he becomes a ninja" The man says. The wolf nods at this before saying one last thing. "That is acceptable, but be warned that you will be held responsible for anything bad that happens to the boy. He has a great destiny ahead of him and is meant to be the one to finally bring the Blood Wolf clan back to it's rightful status as the most feared of all summons" the wolf says receiving a fearful nod from the man.
He could only watch in awe as the wolf turned back around and walked right into the sand dune he burst out of. The man cautiously moved forward poking the sand, but found nothing. The forgotten son at this point had moved to where the blond boy lay while his father kept digging at the sand trying to find where the wolf went. The boy decided to get his fathers attention. "Father are we taking him with us?" Takumi asks pointing at the blond boy. The father giving up on finding the wolf finally just nods and picks the unconscious child up.
"Yep, looks like you finally got a little brother Takumi-kun" The man says grinning at his son. The boy smiles brightly and forgetting the heat jumps around loudly proclaiming 'YAY I got a brother! I got a brother!' While jumping around his father and new little brother. Meanwhile, far away from the heart warming scene as the growing family started back on their journey home a silent group watched happy with how things went only to seemingly disappear in the wind a moment later.
Mori no Kuni - Land of Forests
tou-san - Father
I want to thank everyone for reading my new story. This is not a crossover. I have just always thought making Naruto a puppeteer with a blood based bloodline and giving it abilities of Katara's and that old lady's blood bending would be awesome. This Naruto will be powerful extremely so maybe even godlike eventually. The pairing is Naruto x FemGaara with harem being a possibility if there is a call for it though there will only be 3 max with no Konoha ladies involved.