Hey there people, and welcome to another chapter of Imperator. So far I have five follows and five faves, and I'm hoping that number will grow if I publish at a more reasonable hour then 10PM Mountain Time.
Moving on from that, I still need ideas for pairings. Will not be Naru/Hina. That's the only version of this story I've ever seen, and all of my stories thus far have been unique. Ergo, this one will be as well. Also, I have been reconsidering a harem, not because harems are awesome or because I'm a perv, but it would actually fit better with the storyline I have planned. This isn't a definitive yes or no; just know that I'm considering it.
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And now on with the show!
"Talking"
"Demon Talking"
"Thought"
"Jutsu"
Imperator
Ch.2
Discovery
Naruto Uzumaki was angry. He wasn't angry about his team, or his lazy ass teacher, or even the brat who told him he knew nothing about pain and suffering. No, he wasn't angry at them; he was angry at himself. He was angry because despite how lighthearted he tried to be, or how good he was to others, he was always pushed back down. He hadn't felt this feeling in years; not since he decided his dream was to be Hokage, so that everyone would recognize him. And somehow, that little brat knew just the right buttons to push to make him realize that he knew he wasn't going to be recognized by his village, unless he gave his life for it, which Naruto wasn't too keen on doing for people that hated him.
The village, except for a select few, had scorned him since birth. Now they didn't physically abuse him or verbally abuse him directly, but what they did still took its toll. The shops nearby sold him their worst goods, usually several days rotten or bad. His educators had purposely sabotaged his education, putting henges on his papers so he answered the questions wrong, or sending him to another class when an important lesson was going to be covered. It was due to this that Naruto didn't even know what chakra was until he got on his team, and even then, his 'sensei', Kakashi, spent more time on teamwork and less time on actual survival skills. Naruto understood the necessity for teamwork; and his teams was steadily improving, but he doubted that it would go any higher than it already was, and you can't throw 'teamwork' at an enemy charging toward you.
But the worst part of Naruto's neglect was that parents told their kids to stay away from him. For years, he hadn't been able to make a single friend in the village, except for Teuchi and his daughter Ayame. In fact, the only way that Naruto even made friends in the first place was because of the third. Every so often, the Hokage would take Naruto to the park, and in an effort to get closer to the leader of the village, several clans had their heirs play with him so that they could 'get a moment of 'Hokage-sama's time'. Of course, the friends he made during these little outings remained his friends, but not once had Naruto made a friend by himself, with the exception that is of Sauske Uchiha, who was more of a rival than anything else. Naruto often wondered how his life would have been different if the village had known of his true heritage.
Yes, Naruto knew that he was the son of the fourth. He found out the same day he found out about Kyuubi. The third always hid the fourths photo when Naruto came around, but when Naruto stole the scroll of sealing, he had been to rushed to hide it or anything, and Naruto got a good look at the fourths face. Naruto found he looked exactly like him, but with whisker marks. Of course, Naruto didn't speak a word of this to the third, and did some digging on his father and possibly his mother. While his father was relatively easy to find out about, seeing as he was Hokage, his mother was a different story. He guessed that she was an Uzumaki, and that led to there being three recently recorded Uzumaki's in the village. The oldest was the first Hokage's wife: Mito Uzumaki. Then there was Naruto himself. But the third one he had only found a bingo book profile on. In the picture, she was wearing an ANBU mask, but it didn't cover up her red hair. Her name was Kushina Uzumaki, AKA the Red Hot Bloody Habenero. He promised himself that if he ever met his mother and father in the afterlife or something, he was going to give his father a big kick in the balls before reuniting with them and talking like a family should.
But for now, he was the family less orphan/demon that his village despised. And he was sick of it. He had walked away from Tazuna's house after his grandson upset him to try and blow off some steam through training
"Damn it, why can't I be accepted? I try my hardest, and yet the only acceptance I get is from a man who is usually too busy to do anything with me, and a ramen shop owner and his daughter who treat me like I'm human." Naruto thought as he kicked an empty can on the path he was walking on. Unfortunately for Naruto, the can he just kicked had sailed into a small shrine next to the water, and made a loud crashing sound.
"Damn it, just my luck" Naruto mumbled under his breath, "Better go and make sure that nothing is broken or anything."
He ran up to the shrine. It was beautiful, to say the least. The shrine was made out of stone tablets; two long and thick ones made up the actual shrine, while it was suspended by statues of an animal Naruto didn't recognize. It was covered in moss, and looked as if it had spent some time under water. As he approached the shrine, Naruto noted that the stone panel facing up was covered in glass, and that the can had managed to break through it.
"Great…" he said sarcastically. The can had dislodged several scrolls with seals on them as well as a small book. Naruto picked up the book first and put it back into the shrine, when the wind picked up and blew the book open to the last page. Naruto was going to close it again, until one word caught his eye. "Uzumaki"
Naruto picked the book up again and read the section. Evidently it was a diary, written by a man named Daichi Uzumaki, and according to the last entry, he died 40 years ago. Naruto was excited to learn that he had a relative, even if he was dead, and began reading the passage.
"To whoever this may concern,
My name is Daichi Uzumaki, the last head of the Uzumaki clan, and leader of Uzuishokiagure. I am one of the last survivors from my village. The life is fading from me as I write these words. I would ask that whoever finds my journal to find an Uzumaki and give him or her the scrolls I have contained within the case. They are the artifacts of a now dead village, but they are an Uzumaki birthright. The biggest scroll, however, can only be unlocked by a member of the royal Uzumaki family. It contains things that will be necessary for the rebirth of the Uzumaki. All they need to do to prove their lineage is put a little of their blood on the seal, and if they are of the blood, the scroll will open on its own. The other scrolls can be opened the same way, although they only require Uzumaki blood to open them."
Naruto was surprised and saddened. When he started reading, he thought he had found a connection to his family and heritage, but all it turned out to be was another paper trail leading somewhere else. "Am I really an Uzumaki?" Naruto thought, and though he really hoped he was, he doubted it. Maybe his mom was named in honor of the village that was destroyed or something. He honestly didn't know, seeing as he didn't know much about her. He quickly pushed these thoughts from his mind, and picked up the nearest scroll, which happened to be the biggest one, pricked his finger on a piece of broken glass from the shrine, and swiped it across the seal. It glowed brightly for a minute before it disappeared, and the scroll unraveled.
To say Naruto was happy was an understatement. "So I am an Uzumaki! Yatta!" He started jumping for joy, but quickly stopped and realized the scroll he just opened was the largest one, the one that the diary entry had said that only a member of the royal Uzumaki family could open.
"W-w-wait…does that mean I'm royalty of some kind?" (A/N Yes, Naruto is smart, but he's still going to be a blockhead when it comes to girls and stuff like this.)
He would have asked more questions of himself, but thankfully decided to shut up and read the scroll. At the top of the scroll, there was the seal that was on all of the scrolls, but this time it had a blue dragon surrounding it, and on either corner of the paper there was the animal that was holding up the shrine, which now seemed to Naruto more like a museum of sorts then a shrine. He also noticed that it was in Daichi's handwriting, and that at the bottom of the scroll there were two seals; one with the kanji for war and the other with the kanji for peace stamped in the middle. Finished looking over the scroll, Naruto turned his attention back to the text. It read,
"To the true son of the Uzumaki who opened this scroll
I would first like to say that I am sorry. You are likely among the last Uzumaki on the planet. Even now, I can hear our people's screams into the night. We've managed to hold off the combined armies of Kumo and Iwa for weeks. We delved far into our libraries for our survival, and found some things that maybe you can use later, but it was too late for us. As the keeper of history and culture of the Uzumaki clan, I will be forced to abandon my comrades so that you may find this. This is never an easy thing to do for us Uzumaki, but it is necessary for the survival of our ideals and the ancient hope of peace.
In order to know how to use the gift given to you in this scroll, you must understand your heritage. As you know, the Rikudō Sennin had two children; one receiving his eyes while the other received his body. What you do not know is that he had a third child who received the sage's spirit. She was the founder of the Uzumaki clan. Our clan was not gifted with the special abilities that the two brothers had, but due to our spirits we are able to live much longer than the average person. As our clan developed, we spread knowledge as best we could. We rediscovered the art of Zen, a spiritual art that was lost at the end of the lost age, and Bushido, which the sons of the sage took up quickly. Our clan quickly reached enlightenment and this led us to being a rather wealthy people, but in order to protect our people and our culture, we were forced to join the brothers in studying the arts of Bushido. While the brothers and their clans began their wars and stopped their enlightenment, we continued ours to the very end. Though I have little doubt that by the time you read this technology will have advanced our knowledge into how armies and countries work will no doubt be beneficial to you.
We were a people famous for our shinobi and sealing ability, but because we never had the chance to get a dynamo for our islands, our abilities in marshal and strategic civilian combat were never tested. Though many dynamo claim that their army is the best, ours is undoubtedly superior to any force that a dynamo of our time could muster. Though they claim to use samurai, our army would take that to the extreme, and then some.
To this end, the people of the village of Uzu and the Uzumaki clan would make a request of you. We do not want you to bring the clan back to its former glory, but instead focus on bringing peace to the land. Our people have always been about peace, but sometimes true peace can only be achieved through that which we hate most; in this case, war. To that end, we have left you gifts. The seal with the kanji for peace on it contains the entirety of the Uzu treasury, as well as any peace time seals we had and any technology that you could use. We also included all of our medical scrolls for your use.
In the seal marked with the kanji for war, we have included all of our combative techniques for shinobi and seals, as well as any and all tactics and samurai techniques. We also sealed a full quarter of our armory in the seal, and five of our master swords. We had quite a few of the highest grade smithies in the nations before this invasion. Eventually we hope that you will be able to resurrect our lost techniques, but we doubt it will happen anytime soon.
We do have hope for the future, but as of right now it looks bleak. Hopefully you can change that. Revive the clan if you can, and do your best for the future.
Live a happy, long life in the embrace of the whirlpool.
Diachi Uzumaki, historian and librarian of the Uzumaki"
When Naruto finished the note, he was floored. The Uzumaki were that powerful? He quickly went through the remained of the scrolls to find Kenjutsu, Genjutsu, Taijutsu, Ninjutsu, and other things, including several instructions on how to use bloodline jutsu such as ice style and lava style. After going through all the scrolls, he made a quick decision.
He wasn't going back to the village after this mission. Oh no, he was going to start a new Uzu right here. He had seen the state that Wave was in, and hated it. He always strived to help those who he could, and he thought that there was a lot of need here. And he was going to do his best to make sure that the people of Wave didn't suffer any more.
But to fulfill his ancestor's wishes, he needed an army, and an army needed soldiers. The people of wave had the potential, but they needed hope and training. And Naruto had a feeling he knew exactly how to get both. Naruto smiled a big smile and ran off toward the forest, yelling "THANK YOU KAMI! UZU WILL RISE AGAIN! AND IT WILL BE BRING PEACE! BELIEVE IT!"
Annddd that's a wrap.
Yes, it was a shortish chapter. Yes, they will get longer. All of my stories thus far have had progressive story lengths. This has worked well so far, and has allowed me to manage my story as I want. They will all eventually be around 3,000-5,000 words a chapter.
Now then, I promised additional chapters for a few of my other stories. With luck, I will get all of the other chapters out by this weekend. Unfortunately, I have ACT's and SAT's coming up, as well as state standardized testing, and finally several projects. Can't say anything about publishing for a while during this.
Keep reading and reviewing! Ciao!
