Title: The Brother
By: The Right Stop
"Humans Speaking"
'Human Thinking'
Jutsu in Use
"Biju/Non-Human Talking"
'Biju/Non-Human Thinking'
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On to the next chapter
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Chapter two
When Ōtsutsuki Kaguya heard what she thought was the girly scream of her youngest child, she didn't really know what to expect when she walked into the room he was occupying with her oldest in tow. But she was pretty sure that seeing in suspended in mid-air by nothing was not one of them. At first she thought that he had inherited some sort of illusion ability from her, and that what was currently in front of her was an impressive illusion meant to deceive her, but channel chakra, as Hagoromo insisted that she couldn't keep calling it power, into her White Eye quickly disproved that theory.
She could see his chakra travelling around his body only this time it was at a constant, relatively fast, pace. The chakra travelled around his body, but when it got to his feet, some of the chakra was siphoned off, appeared to change somehow and become pressurised wind that shot out from his feet.
Kaguya was shocked, while she could manipulate the five elements and some sort of force thanks to the Rinnegan. But that was just it, manipulating. What she could do with the elements, was like a giant trying to pick up a grain of sand. While she could use the elements, she would never have the kind of control that her son was displaying before her.
"Hey Kaa-sensei, look at me I can fly like a bird." She was shaken out of her musings by the object of her thoughts starting to move around the large praying room at a quick pace, about the same speed he could run which was quite fast. Panicking at the thought of her son falling she quickly made herself known to her youngest, who was too caught up in exploring his new found power.
"Naruto! Get down here now!" She exclaimed, worry and concern in her tone. Naruto stopped slowly lowered himself to the ground before smiling lack a cat that caught the canary.
"So what do you think Kaa-chan? Pretty cool right?" He excitedly and with good reason, he was just flying. FLYING. In his book that is like the king of all cool powers. However, his mood changed from excited to nervous when he heard the tone in his mother's voice.
"What I'm thinking is how to punish you without killing you." The sickly sweet tone in his mother's voice was one he had heard before as well as the words spoken. The words have another meaning besides the obvious one which was 'you have five seconds to tell me why I shouldn't give you the beating of a life time'. Knowing that his mother's threat was real he quickly began saving his own his hide.
"It was an accident." He voiced sheepishly, his right hand coming up to rub the back of his head like he always did when he was nervous. "I was imagining the wind and wanted to be outside. Next thing I know, I'm flying." He hoped his excuse that was enough to avoid punishment, but just to be sure he decided to try to get on his mother's good side. "On the bright side your method about how it will come to you worked." He said smiling while silently praying to Kami, Yami, Shinigami and all the immortal beings in the world to help spare him from his mother's wrath if it didn't work. He didn't want to die young, there were still so many things he hadn't done, so many people he hadn't pranked yet.
"Well," His mother said, appearing to be believing Naruto's 'innocence' in the matter. "I suppose you had no control over what happened..." Yes, Naruto thought he was home free, he was gonna live. "On the other hand, you didn't come down straight away, so your punishment will be a beating by yours truly." Naruto blanched, despite how fast he was, his mother was still faster and stronger than him. In other words, he was screwed. He sent pleading eyes to his brother but the look in his elder sibling's eye was clear, Are you crazy? Every man for himself bro.
'Traitor.' Naruto thought. 'And to think, I was going to ask for his help pranking Kaa-chan.' As his thoughts turned back to his mother he faced her. She was advancing on him with a look that spook of pain. A quick look to see if he could use his brother as a human shield turned out to be a bust as he had already fled the room and closed the door. 'Oh shit.'
For the next half an hour the monastery would be plagued by the screams of a child and the insane laughter of his mother.
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"Hey Naruto, didn't know your voice could go that high? Is there anything else you haven't told me?"
"You're a bastard, you know that right Hagoromo?"
"Hey it was every man for himself, what in Kami's name was I meant to do?"
"Not be a chicken would be helpful."
"I acted in my own interest just like you would in that situation."
Naruto had no comeback for that; it was an unspoken agreement that when their mother was angry at either one of them, it was every man for himself. Now, a day after the beating he suffered from his beating from his mother, and Naruto was still sore all over. The Ōtsutsuki boys knew that when their mother spared with either one of them that no punches were pulled, the same could be said for her punishments. It was a way for the boys to want to get better to stop the massacre that was sparing with their mother and be goof to avoid the unrivalled pain they received from mother's beatings.
"You could have at least tired to get me out of it; do you know how much pain I feel right now?" Naruto whined as he lay on his back in the monastery's garden. His monk robes were still ripped and torn from yesterday's beating and Naruto wasn't in any rush to get a new one in his current state. It was painful enough to walk outside. His brother was seated next to him, meditating while their mother was working on her 'project'. They didn't actually know what it was; just that their mother promised she would give it to them when she believed they were 'ready', whenever that was.
Naruto sighed, well since he was trying to stay perfectly still to minimise the pain he was feeling, maybe he should meditate. He hasn't done it recently and while he doesn't prize meditation as high as his brother does, he still knows its importance. Closing his white eyes, he calmed himself, slowed his breathing, opened his senses inwards and felt his own chakra and began moving it around his body. Ever since he was small he had always had impressive control of his chakra, being able to move it around his body at whatever speed he desired, even reversing the flow if he tried hard enough. But he wasn't going to do that, right now he was going to meditate. He felt his chakra flow around his body like a river, never deviating; it gave him a slight sense of euphoria. Breathing out a sigh, he winced as he moved his chest, he was sure that something was fractured in his chest. He wished something would fix so he would be in so much pain, he imagined his bone and the fracture in quickly healing.
It was then that he felt it, the same instinct that gave him control over his wind abilities, he knew what to do. Channelling chakra into the wound on his chest, his eyes still closed, the thought of wanting to heal still on his mind. He stifled a gasp, he felt his chest healing, the fracture healing even the bruises on his other ribs that he didn't know he had, hearing his brother gasp beside him, he wondered what he was seeing before stopping that train of thought, he still had his stomach, arms and legs to heal. Spreading more of his chakra to his stomach then arms and legs, he began healing the bruises that riddled the rest of his body. Once he felt his body healed, he let his chakra recede back and let it flow the way it usually did, opening his eyes, he slowly sat up before careful prodding his ribs before releasing a sigh when he felt no pain. Feeling eyes on him, he slowly turned his head to where he felt the stare coming from and saw it was from his brother, his ripple eyes wide and his mouth slightly open. Naruto looked at him for a bit longer before grinning like a loon.
"Close your mouth, Hago-kun. Otherwise you'll catch flies." The sound of his brother's voice brought Hagoromo out of his staring.
"I'm sorry. What did you say?" Hagoromo said, still not quite there, yet. He just say his brother heal from injuries that should of put him down for weeks at least. First flying, now self healing, what was next? Hagoromo shook the thought from his head, knowing his brother; it was most likely going to be something that shouldn't be possible.
"Well, I know I'm awesome so I'll forgive your staring this once commoner. After all, who can't stop and stare in the presence of the mighty and totally cool, Ōtsutsuki Naruto?" Exclaimed Naruto, jumping to his feet and puffing his chest out in what was an attempt at making him look more 'awesome'.
Before Hagoromo could put his brother down in a mostly likely humiliating way with words, he was interrupted by his mother appearing at the entrance to the garden.
Kaguya had been working on several surprises for her two sons that she would give them when she felt they were for them when she felt a release of chakra, one that she felt was most likely Naruto doing something stupid, like playing with chakra again. Although because of yesterday she was mostly likely going to take it easy on Naruto for the punishment this time, as not only was he probably still sore from his last one but also because he was doing this on instinct with no real control over what he was doing. Unless of course he was trying to fly again using his ability over wind, in that case something would be broken just in case he didn't get the message.
Instead of being greeted by Naruto flying when she got to the garden, which was where the chakra had emanated from, she was greeted by Naruto standing up in what was left of his monks robe with his chest puffed out and his older brother sitting beside him looking like he was going to say something that was going to start both of them wrestling all over the garden. Wanting to avoid the situation, Kaguya made her presence known.
"Would one of you two like to tell me who was using chakra and for what reason?" The sound of their mother's voice made both boys snap their heads in here direction. Soon after that, Naruto stopped puffing his chest out and Hagoromo stood up on his two feet. Naruto then gave a nervous smile to his mother. 'Possibly debating on running.' Kaguya idly thought. Naruto then spoke up.
"I found out another one of my abilities Kaa-chan." Naruto said, before quickly adding. "And believe it or not it wasn't dangerous in any way." Kaguya arched an eyebrow, asking for that explanation to be expanded upon. "My new ability lets me make my chakra heal myself." Naruto explained before scrunching his brow together in thought. "It may also allow me to heal others if I can bring that sort of chakra outside of my body." He added, like an afterthought. Hagoromo then spoke adding his opinion.
"I agree with my brother on both accounts, Kaa-san. He did heal himself and it may be possible for him to heal others if he can bring that kind of chakra out of his body." Said Hagoromo, he then paused for a minute before adding more on to comment. "But it is also my belief that he will have to study extensively about what he wants to heal before he can actually do that ."
Kaguya raised an eyebrow. "And what makes you believe that Hago-kun?" She asked.
Naruto managed to hold back a snigger. The last time he laughed out loud, his mother started to constantly call him Naru-kun for the entire day. His mother doesn't usually call him that unless she wants to embarrass him or is incredible proud of him. Either way, he usually came out of the situation embarrassed, so he learned to laugh on the inside.
Hagoromo's cheeks tinged red slightly before he composed himself, as much as a seven year old kid could anyway. "When he performed the healing ability he healed himself. It was just that, he was himself. He already knew exactly where and what he needed to heal, but if he was healing someone else and they were unconscious, he would have to know what was broken, especially if he was healing one of us as our own chakra might reject his, believing it be doing more harm than good."
Kaguya thought about what her son had said and realise he was completely-
"Hang on wait a minute I didn't do anything." Naruto interrupted her train of thought with his words. "All I did was imagined myself to be healed."
"What do you mean?" Naruto's brother asked curiously. "It not like you could have just imagined yourself healing and you did." At the end Hagoromo scoffed. "That's impossible it must have been your chakra."
"That's not what I mean, idiot." Naruto said indignantly while turning to face his brother, honestly he was dumb. "What I meant was that the same thing happened yesterday, it was instinct. I imagined myself healing and then I suddenly knew how to do it. Then when I moved my chakra over the areas where I was injured my chakra healed me, I didn't think about my bones mending or anything at all. It was like my chakra knew what was injured and fixed it."
The mother of two watched her children bicker while she thought over the situation. Naruto's chakra had healed him that much was obvious, but what was left uncertain was if the chakra acted on its own or if it used her son already had. There was only one to find out.
"Both of you, stop." Instantly both of the children stopped arguing and stood in front of mother hands by their sides. "Here is what is going to happen. Naruto, you are going to work on bring that chakra out of your body. Once you do, I'm going to find an animal and injure it, you will then have to send out your chakra to fix ever I did. This will determine if you can heal injures that you don't know about, okay?" Naruto nodded. "Good." She said before turning to her eldest and speaking. "Hagoromo, you can choose to either stay with your brother or do something else, it is up to you." Hagoromo also nodded. "Good, Naruto you may begin." While she went away to find an animal, Naruto turned around and sat back down, determined to recreate the feeling from before. His brother followed him choosing to observe his younger sibling, watching the chakra around his hands spike. What his brother was doing definitely demanded observation; Naruto could have the ability to heal almost anything.
He also wanted to see if maybe he could recreate this. Hagoromo had always been about peace and this was the perfect technique to help him. But even if he couldn't heal people he was happy for his brother. He knew his brother felt a little self conscious of abilities, feeling that he might not measure up to his mother's standards. After all, their mother told the both of them that she found out about an ability that could summon animals for battle. Another ability lets her create some kind of strange amour and change her arms into weapons of some sort, they had theorised that they were some kind of advanced weapons. They hadn't even found out all there was about the Rinnegan and even now it was a lot to live up to so he could understand Naruto's excitement over a new ability.
"I got it!" A voice cut Hagoromo off from his musings. As his eyes focus on his brother he noticed that Naruto's hands were a bright green and glowing. Thanks to his eyes, Hagoromo saw that the usual dark blue coat of chakra that completely surrounded Naruto's body was now broken by the green chakra that enveloped his hands. Hagoromo was so into looking at the bright colour that surrounded Naruto's hand he missed his brother calling his attention.
"Hagoromo." Naruto called. No response. "Hagoromo snap out of it." Naruto went to place his hands on Hagoromo's shoulders. Unfortunately for Naruto, he still had the healing chakra coming out of his hands and Hagoromo chose this moment to come back to reality. As his eyes focused, his Rinnegan Eyes made out the chakra that was coming incredibly close. Hagoromo's brain only registered incoming, chakra and hit. Snapping his arms up, taking Naruto by surprise and grabbing him at the wrist. Hagoromo heard a voice in his mind whisper Gakidō. This was the same voice that had helped him control the 'force' that the Rinnegan wielded along with the five elements. Except that time it had whispered a different word, Tendō.
When his hands touched Naruto's wrists, the chakra around Naruto's disappeared and Hagoromo felt an influx of something, something he couldn't describe. He felt like he had taken something in, like he had absorbed something. It felt similar to his chakra but different. Searching inside, he felt his chakra spinning in the other direction! What was going on? Hagoromo was jarred out of his thoughts by a head butt.
Landing on the ground he rubbed his head to help get rid of the pain before looking up at his younger sibling. What in Kami's name possessed him to do that? "What the hell was that for you, idiot?" The eldest Ōtsutsuki child demanded. "That freaking hurt, Naruto." He said continuing to rub his head but made sure he could see his brother to glare at him.
"Well, sorry if I don't want my chakra to be absorbed." Naruto said sarcastically.
That stopped Hagoromo for a second. He was absorbing chakra? He needed a minute to take that all in. Unfortunately for Hagoromo, he wouldn't get it.
"What are you to doing now?" Asked an annoyed voice. "I left you alone for five minutes and already you two have done something stupid." Kaguya sighed, she left for five minutes to get a bird and injure it, which was currently resting in her hands, and already her to children had gone and done something, potential dangerous, if what her hunch was correct.
"It wasn't my fault this time I swear!" Naruto exclaimed pushing his hands out in front of him, before gesturing to his brother, who was now standing, with a pointed finger. "It was him, all him, not me. That guy there."
"I think Kaa-san gets it Naruto." Hagoromo said in a dry voice. "All it would have taken was saying it once."
"Hey, you can never be to certain." Naruto defended, folding his arms across his chest.
Kaguya by this time had just raised an eyebrow in amusement; it was always funny to see her children interacted. Despite how amusing it was to see the two bicker, she needed to find out what happened.
"Would one of you care to tell me what happened?" She asked.
The two children stopped their arguing and stood strait with their arms by their sides. Hagoromo then launched into the tale about what happen during the five minutes, his mother was away. By the end of the tale, Kaguya had come to a conclusion about what to do.
Turing to face Hagoromo only and spoke in what the two brothers called her sensei voice. It was a voice she used when she was serious but not angry at them. "Okay, Hagoromo, we will investigative this Gakidō, or Preta Path, later right now we will focus on Naruto." She then turned to Naruto before showing him the bird she had in her hands. "Okay Naruto, this animal had some sort of injury. You are now going to heal it, okay?" Naruto nodded before stepping forward and taking the bird from his mothers out stretched hand and place it on the ground. The bird didn't try to fly away or run, indicating it either trusted him or was too injured to move. Putting that out of his mind, Naruto focused on the healing the injured bird. Bringing forth his healing chakra, as he decided to call it, and placing his hands over the bird, almost touching it, felt it starting to work. As his chakra started to surround the bird he began to get a mental image of the bird. No not just a picture, it was like his chakra was scanning the bird both inside and out, searching for what was wrong. 'There.' He thought before frowning inwardly. 'Damn Kaa-chan really didn't take it easy on this bird, it has a severed spine. No wonder it didn't move when I put it down. Wow Kaa-chan, harsh.' Naruto stopped thinking about the injury and moving onto healing the bird. Moving his chakra that was already surrounding the bird, he made it surround the injury. He then watched as the wound slowly healed, it wasn't as fast as when he healed himself, but he put that down to the severity of the injury, this bird had a broken neck, ordinarily it wouldn't be able to recover at all. There was something else though; he could feel the healing that was taking place, every piece of bone that reconnect to blood vessels that regrew and new nerves that were created. After several minutes of healing, the wound closed and the bird snapped back up to its feet before spreading its wings and flying out and away from the garden, most likely now knowing to stay away from white haired women.
Naruto then stood up, turning to his mother, awaiting her comments. The praise he got made his heart sing.
"Well done, Naru-kun, well done." Kaguya praised. "I honestly didn't believe you could do it and that your brother's theory was correct but you proved me and him wrong, and for the better." She smiled at the look of happiness on her son's face. She knew that Naruto feared disappointing her, it was one of the reasons he exercises so fiercely. Kaguya would always love her son, nothing would change that. Just because he didn't have the Rinnegan didn't mean that she didn't believe that he would grow up to be strong, in fact she believed that it would make him stronger because of it. There was a part of her that was worried for her eldest child though, because he had the Rinnegan and how she was showed it with praise about how it made the wielder almost god, something she now regretted doing, she was worried that it might make her eldest son an arrogant brat like a noble's child, that was something she didn't want happening. "You have a powerful skill there Naruto. Healing a severed spine is something that even I can't do." She admitted. Naruto's smile only got wider at that. His confidence in his own abilities had increased thanks to his mother's praise; it felt good that he had something only he could do. It made him feel like he could do something that mattered.
"How do we know he healed the internal wound though, like cut veins and all that?" Hagoromo pointed out. Both his mother and himself hadn't seen just exactly how much of the bird Naruto had healed. The only reason they could tell that the spine had been healed properly was because the bird had flown off.
Naruto turned and smiled at his brother, still high on the praise from his mother. "Don't worry Hagoromo, the bird is fully healed. " Naruto paused before explain. "As I healed the bird I could feel all of it healing, the severed spine, the veins, the nerves along the spine, all of it. It all healed." Kaguya allowed Naruto to bask in his happiness before breaking him out of it.
"Okay I think that's enough experimenting for today. Tomorrow, Hagoromo you will be practicing the elements while Naruto you will be out here working on your power over wind." When both her sons nodded Kaguya continued. "In that case, because of the discoveries that were made today, I'll allow both of you to have today free of training." She knew that the last part wasn't, both of them wanted to know more about their powers and would most likely spend the entire day, if they could, training and expanding on their abilities. She watch as both of them moved to different part of the garden before moving back to her room. She still had surprises to finish after all.
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Six months later and Naruto was bored. Sitting in front of the pond that was in the garden, Naruto reflected on what had happened over the past six months. After the incident where Naruto unlocked his healing ability and Hagoromo his Preta Path, no new discoveries had been found, in either his own abilities or the Rinnegan Eye, this meant that Naruto had nothing new to work. Because he was only seven years old, there was only so much he could do as his body was still growing. Because he was still a child he could use anything for weights as his mother didn't want him to stunt his growth, despite the protest that he could heal himself, his mother had taken a stand and refused to budge from her position and Naruto knew not to push the issue to far. She said he could use weights when he was twelve. Naruto had found a way around this by accident, an incredibly happy accident.
Naruto was trying to mimic two of his mother and brother's Deva Path techniques called Shinra Tensei (Almighty Push) and Banshō Ten'in (Universal Pull) with wind, when trying to mimic Shinra Tensei (Almighty Push) he miscalculated how much power he put into the technique and it ended up launching him back, in his panicked state he channelled chakra into his feet causing him to stick to the ground. When he regained his bearings and realised what he did, he found out that if he channelled chakra into his feet he stuck to the ground. Then after a brainwave and trial and error, he managed to get himself to stick to walls and ceilings and even walk or run up them. After another thought, Naruto now sticks himself to the ceiling and does sit ups for exercise, though he has to remember to channel chakra into his feet so he doesn't fall off. It was incredible funny when he walked into the room where his mother and brother were practising and casually walked up the wall and hung there like an everyday occurrence, their faces were hilarious.
Despite no new powers, Naruto did find out a few things about his own powers. As it turns out, Naruto doesn't need to consciously think about healing anymore, after initially unlocking his healing ability and using it, he hasn't had to use it to heal himself since except for serious injuries like broken bones, and even then he only has to concentrate for a second to heal the broken bone. Another discovery was that his wind abilities were different to his mother's and brother's, were they channelled chakra into the element they were using and manipulated it like that, Naruto's chakra literally turned into the element he was using in this case, air. It was discovered after his mother and brother couldn't see the chakra in his wind attacks like they could in theirs, just to be sure his mother used her Tome Eye and White Eye to check. No chakra in use at all. This meant that they couldn't use absorb his attacks with their Preta Path. Hagoromo forgot this once during a spar and thought he could absorb his attack, needless to say he made sure not to forget it after that.
Another thing that his family had discovered about his powers was that he had superior control of air than either of them had, Naruto could control any part of the air around him at will without moving if he desires, though that took a lot out of him, while his mother and brother could only launch chakra-based attacks from the general area around their body. Naruto could do so many things with air that neither his brother or mother could do; fly, turn the wind into shape based attacks, levitate objects using the wind around it to grab them and lift them, though he was still working on that, fly, create ferocious winds, fly and make the wind softly blow the opposite way making his monk's robes blow, in his words, 'heroically against the wind'. Both his mother and older sibling laughed when he showed them that.
Now though he was bored, he felt like he had exhausted all he could do with his element in such as small space. His mother had forbid him from trying to create a tornado, so here he was, bored. He didn't want to exercise anymore today and both his mother and brother were training. When he asked his mother what he could do, she only said to try and discover his other abilities.
'Stupid powers.' Naruto grumbled. 'Why can't more of them unlock themselves or something? Sitting here is so boring. Why can't I use-... Hey!' He perked up. 'If I can use one element, there's no reason why I can't use other elements like Kaa-chan or Hagoromo. After all they can so why can't I?' With a new resolve, he sat down in a meditation position, legs crossed and arms on his knees with his back straight. 'Okay, if unlocking any more elements is anything like wind, I'll have to imagine the feel of the element and the characteristics of it as well as what I want it to do.' Deciding to start with water seeing as there was a lake right in front of him, he closed his eyes and calmed his heart rate. He imagined water, how he splashed Hagoromo in it when they played in the pond, how it felt on his skin, he imagined water rising up out of the lake in the shape of tendrils. He imagined more tendrils of water joining the first and started to swirl around in a circle in the lake getting faster and faster an-
Naruto was cut out of his thoughts by water splashing him in the face. Opening his eyes, he was greeted by the sight of tendrils of water in the air in a circle before they splashed back down into the pond due to his lack of concentration.
Naruto simply stared at the pond for a moment before pumping his right arm into the air in celebration.
"Hell-freaking-yeah!"He exclaimed. "I am going to be such a badass in the future." Naruto said to himself with a smile so wide one might think his face might break.
Chapter End
AN: Aren't you guys lucky, I got another chapter out. Don't get your hopes up of this being a regular thing though, this was most likely a one off, though I will try to do it again.
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