An Eye For An Eye Chapter 2
"Character Talking"
'Character Thinking'
"Kyuubi Talking"
Commentary
Jutsu
-With Someone/ Someplace-
-Flashback-
A giant beast stirred behind an enormous gate which was, shockingly, held shut by nothing more than a simple piece of paper that read 'seal'. The animal had been waiting patiently for a blonde haired boy to awake from his slumber.
The thing that the animal didn't understand, was how the boy could sleep in nearly a foot of water without waking up. Just when the beast was about to go back to sleep he heard some splashing, and to his pleasure it was none other than the blonde boy.
-With Naruto-
Naruto awoke to water flooding into his nose and mouth, which hindered his ability to breathe normally. The blonde abruptly sat up, while choking up some water, and looked around the gloomily lit area that he was currently occupying.
At first Naruto couldn't make anything out seeing as his eyes hadn't adjusted to the lighting of whatever room he was in. The few things that Naruto could make out were the pipes trailing all along the ceiling, which, combined with the foot of water, gave Naruto the feeling that he was in some sort of sewer.
After about five minutes, however, Naruto was slowly gaining the ability to see the scenery around him. To the boy's surprise it didn't really consist of much except for a long hallway, and a giant gate. Naruto took a mental note of the single piece of paper as he tried to see if anything was actually inside the cell.
The blonde had always been curious by nature so of course he was wondering where he was, how he got there, and what exactly was behind the gate. He pushed himself up, and took a couple steps toward the gate before he was stopped by a booming voice,
"Hello Kit…"
Naturally, as any six year old would be, Naruto was frightened and took a couple steps back on shaky legs before tripping over himself and falling back into the water he had just been laying in. His mind instantly shot back to the man that had assaulted him not too long ago.
Naruto was shaking slightly, but still had some nerve left as he responded slowly,
"W-Who's there?"
The answer was immediate, "Please don't be afraid of me Kit, I'm not going to harm you."
Naruto swallowed hard as he waited for the voice to continue. He may have been young, but that didn't mean he was stupid enough to trust whatever this thing was.
"I know that you most likely have some questions, and I'll address the most obvious ones right now, and after I'm done if you have any more I'll gladly answer them for you."
Naruto assumed whatever was behind the gate had changed its position, because he felt a great force hit the ground and in effect it boosted the blonde into the air slightly. Naruto was still scared, but as of right now nothing was harming him so he figured if listening to this 'thing' would keep it that way, then he probably shouldn't question it too much.
"As for where we are, the most simplistic way I can put it is that we're inside your mind. How you got here…well that would have to do with the fact that you were just beaten to a pulp, and this is your unconscious mind, which you naturally go to if you lose consciousness."
Naruto just continued to stare into the darkness that was beyond the gate waiting for the booming voice to continue.
"O-Okay…but w-what are you, and how do I k-know you won't h-hurt me?"
Naruto heard a rather loud sigh as the voice responded to his question,
"Well…I'm sure you've heard of the Kyuubi no Yoko, or as you humans call me…The Nine Tailed Fox-"
The Kyuubi was cut off by the shaking blonde figure that was, now, against a wall in the fetal position.
"Y-You mean t-the f-fox that k-killed t-thousands of p-people!?"
The Kyuubi once again sighed inwardly to himself as he nodded, even though Naruto wasn't able to see it.
"Yes…yes that's me Kit, but-"
"Then there's no way you won't kill me!"
The Kyuubi didn't answer for a short period of time as he heard the faint crying of the six year old beyond the gate in front of him.
"Please Kit…just listen…I won't hurt you. Not only do I not want to, but also, if I kill you then I kill myself. So please Kit…don't be afraid of me."
The crying dwindled until there was only a few sniffles from a runny nose, and to accompany the thought that the young blonde was starting to understand that he was in no form of danger the Kyuubi heard faint footsteps coming towards the gate once again.
"You swear you won't hurt me?" The Kyuubi could only chuckle to himself as he observed the blonde's curiosity getting the better of him.
"Yes Kit...as I said before, if I were to harm you then it would harm me as well."
The blonde nodded as he finally accepted what the beast was telling him as the truth.
"So…why are you inside of me exactly…or in my mind at least?"
"Well you see…what's taught in your schools and what really happened between me and the Fourth Hokage are two totally different things. In the academy you're taught that the Fourth killed me by sacrificing his life, but in reality even he didn't have the power required to kill me, so the best he could do was seal me inside of a newborn child whose chakra coils were not completely developed yet. The reasoning behind this was that if I was sealed inside of a grown person whose chakra coils were complete it wouldn't have worked. I'll save you the details, but what would have happened to the person wouldn't have been pretty. The person's death would have ultimately led to my release again, and it would have all been pointless. The Fourth was smart and knew that, however, so he used a newborn baby, and that baby was unfortunately you Kit."
It took Naruto a good ten minutes just to comprehend what he had just been told, but after it all registered within his mind he was furious at the very same person he once idolized.
"So is this why I've been called a demon all my life and have been beat for absolutely no reason!?"
The Kyuubi didn't want to respond, but he knew he had too.
"Yes Kit…that's why everything that has happened to you has...well…happened, but please Kit you have to understand the Fourth Hokage was trying to make you a hero. The village, however, didn't see you the way he wanted them too. You can't be angry at him for that, and besides if he wouldn't have done it then well…the village would have been destroyed and you wouldn't even exist right now."
The blonde just looked down and nodded to himself softly.
"I guess you're right…it just seems a little unfair to me that's all…"
The Kyuubi looked at Naruto with compassion as he, once again, sighed and nodded himself.
"Yeah Kit I know, but life isn't fair, and you have to get used to stuff not going the way you want it to."
Naruto understandingly nodded as he looked back through the gate.
"So Kyuubi…is there any reason I'm not hurt at all?"
Even though the blonde couldn't see it the Kyuubi's eyes widened.
"Oh thank you for reminding me Kit! That's a very important part of what I was going to tell you. Well first off, you're not hurt because you're technically inside of your mind right now."
To this Naruto just nodded and waited patiently for the Kyuubi to continue on.
"Okay, well as you may have assumed, your left eye is of absolutely no use anymore, because of the attack-"
Naruto cut the Kyuubi off as he started panicking,
"What do you mean my eye is of no use!? How can I-"
The Kyuubi, for the first time since the conversation started, cut Naruto off.
"-But, I have a way that I can help you with this little problem."
The blonde instantly stopped his little rant, and looked eagerly into the darkness where the Kyuubi was dwelling.
"Okay…well as you know I'm part of you now Kit, and there is actually a name for containers of Bijuu, or 'The Tailed Beasts' as you humans call us. You're the Jinchuuriki of the Kyuubi no Yoko, since you contain me. Are you getting what I'm saying Kit?"
Naruto sat in the thinking pose for a bit before nodding.
"Well every Bijuu is given one gift to give to their Jinchuuriki if for some reason they see fit, and I believe you worthy of acquiring the gift now. So you're allowed to tell me one thing you would like, and I suggest going along the lines of getting something that will benefit you in the ninja world not something stupid."
Naruto's eyes lit up as his excitement was growing the more he thought about the gift.
"So I can get anything I want? Anything at all?"
The Kyuubi nodded, "Yeah as long as it's within the realm of reality, I can give it to you. So you can't be a god or anything like that."
Naruto, once again, took the thinking position as he pondered what he wanted.
'Well…I could wish for unlimited kunai and shuriken, but that wouldn't do me any good if I wasn't that great with them…I could wish to know every jutsu ever made…but people think of new jutsu every day, and I would need to be able to actually perform the jutsu on top of that…'
Seeing as Naruto was currently inside of his own mind, and the Kyuubi was staying inside of the blonde's mind, he was able to hear everything Naruto was thinking.
'I have to give the kid credit…he's a lot smarter than I had first thought. He's thinking this through and thinking of not only the advantages of the gift but also the disadvantages…I'm actually impressed.'
The Kyuubi was off thinking to himself when he was shot out of his thoughts by Naruto standing back up and looking at him, with a smirk present on his face.
"I've got it…I want a Kekkei Genkai. I want this Kekkei Genkai to be the ability to copy other Kekkei Genkai, and use them. I want it to automatically activate when I see another Kekkei Genkai active, and I also, on top of that, want a new eye that was the exact same as my old one, but I would like this eye to have the ability to see through a thin or thick layer of fabric. Nothing too intense...I would just like to be able to see normally, and there would be no way to explain how my eye just magically appeared again. Meaning that I will have to keep it covered."
The Kyuubi smirked behind the gate. He had to admit, he was impressed with Naruto's choice. Not only did it supply him with some of the most powerful ability's in the ninja world, it would also help him acquire jutsu, and give him an edge in battle. Not to mention the fact that the six year old was thinking slightly into the future with his request for his new eye to have the ability to see through certain materials. If the Kyuubi didn't know better he would assume Naruto was a lot older than he was.
"I have to applaud you on your choice Kit. That was very well thought out, and will be very useful in your future. Now if you could close your eyes for me, I'll tell you when to open them again."
Naruto did exactly what the Kyuubi asked him too, and while he was waiting for the Kyuubi to tell him to open his eyes again, an excruciating pain covered his body. Naruto had been fortunate to never have any negative encounters with fire, but the blonde assumed that if his body was engulfed in flames it would feel very similar to this, and then it randomly stopped.
"Okay Kit…open your eyes."
Naruto forcefully opened his eyes and found it hard to see, even within his mind. The gate and the environment that was surrounding him slowly started to blur out of his vision.
"Before you go Kit…become a good ninja…I would like for this foolish village to see just how wrong they were about you."
Naruto could only think about how much he wanted that to be the case as everything went black.
-In Room 402 of the Konoha Medical Hospital-
Azami had not left Naruto's hospital room since Hiruzen had brought him in the night before. There were two reasons for her staying with him every second of the day. The first was because he had been in critical condition when he was first brought in, and she was afraid she would lose him if she left even for a split second. The second reason was because, seeing as Azami was the only one in the hospital who would treat Naruto, she was afraid someone would come in and try to kill him in some way, such as poison, or cutting an important medical tube.
Currently the young girl was just sitting in a chair next to Naruto's bed and softly rubbing the blonde's cheek. Her eyes went downcast whenever she looked at the left side of Naruto's face, which was at least eighty percent covered in bandages. Azami did have to say, however, that Naruto did look a hundred times better than he had when Hiruzen had dropped him off last night, and for that she thanked the Kyuubi.
Azami was about to go over and grab a couple things she needed to run a few more tests on Naruto, but before she had a chance to do that, Naruto stirred a little as his visible eye slowly opened. Azami was so shocked by it she wasn't sure what to do, so she just grabbed Naruto and pulled him against her chest in a hug as a few tears slid down her cheeks.
"I'm so glad you're alright Naruto…you scared me so much!"
Naruto didn't know how to respond at first because his eyes were still adjusting to the brightness of the room, but once he realized what was going on, he tightly hugged Azami back. When he was in the process of hugging Azami he noticed that he could see out of his left eye, which amazed him. He pulled away from Azami and looked her in the face.
"What's wrong Naruto?" Azami was now looking back at Naruto with worry etched all over her face.
"…Is my left eye covered?"
Azami just smiled softly as she nodded,
"Of course it is silly, why wouldn't it be?"
Naruto just shrugged and smiled back at Azami,
"I really don't know…that was a pretty stupid question." Naruto chuckled to himself softly as he scratched the back of his head sheepishly.
Azami just smiled at him as she went over to the corner of the room and looked at some computers before walking back over to Naruto.
"Well Naruto as shocking as it seems, it looks like I can release you now, but just be sure to keep that eye covered and change the bandages at least once a day, okay?"
Naruto obediently nodded as he walked away from the bed, which in turn tore off all of the wires that were strapped to Naruto's body. Just as Naruto was about to walk out of hospital he heard Azami behind him.
"Hey Naruto! Make sure to stop by and say hi to Hokage-sama! He'll want to know you're better!"
For a response Naruto just nodded slightly as he turned back around and continued to walk. Before Naruto even realized it he was off thinking to himself about several different things.
'I'm stunned that my new eye can see so clearly through bandages. I was expecting to have the ability to see things, but not as if I had nothing covering my eye at all. This is amazing...one thing I need to make sure I do is obtain the Sharingan and the Byakugan. They would be enormously helpful in the long run. I'm assuming I could just ask someone from the Uchiha district to show me their Sharingan for a school project. The Byakugan...I'll have to think of something else, because if I remember correctly they're all really protective of their abilities.'
Before Naruto even realized it he was walking through the Hokage Tower's main doors.
-In The Hokage's Office-
"You can't be serious!" Iruka screamed as he slammed his hands down on the desk lying in front of himself and Hiruzen.
Hiruzen just blew out a stream of smoke as he looked at the young instructor standing in front of him.
"I'm sorry to say it's true Iruka, but yes…his left eye can never be used again."
Iruka sat down in the chair right in front of the Hokage's desk as he placed his head into his hands.
"Why out of all people did this have to happen to Naruto…"
Hiruzen closed his eyes and shook his head, "I don't know Iruka, but maybe it will make him stronger…who knows."
Iruka just nodded and stood up, "Well I should get going Hokage-sama I have a class to teach in about an hour so I should probably get over there."
Hiruzen just nodded in approval as Iruka stepped out the office's main doors. On the way down the row of stairs that seemed to go on forever Iruka just happened to run into a certain blonde haired Jinchuuriki who was on his way up.
"Naruto!? What are you doing out of the hospital already!? You should be in there for another two days at least!"
Naruto seemed to wake from his trance as his head suddenly shot up and looked right at Iruka, his visible eye wide.
"Iruka-sensei!? Oh…yeah I got checked out about five minutes ago. I guess I'm just a really quick healer, because I'm assuming I was really messed up, but I'm glad to be back out and about again. I can't tell you how much I hate the hospital."
Iruka smiled at him as his eyes wandered over to his bandaged left eye, and then his smile faulted, and Naruto seemed to notice.
"You okay Iruka-sensei?"
Iruka smiled and nodded suddenly to reassure Naruto as he patted the blonde on the shoulder.
"Yeah I'm fine Naruto I was just thinking about some things. We still have to get some ramen later don't we?"
When Iruka mentioned ramen, Naruto's visible eye instantly widened as a bit of drool fell from the corner of his mouth.
"We sure do Iruka-sensei! You better be ready too, because I haven't eaten in a good while!"
Iruka sighed as he rubbed his neck, "Naruto you just ate yesterday…"
Naruto nodded, but continued ranting, "Yeah I know, but I haven't ate since then and that's a good twenty-four hours, which means I've got room for three meals of ramen. So you better be ready Iruka-sensei!"
Iruka just sighed to himself once more as he nodded, "Well take care of yourself okay Naruto? I'll give you a couple days off, but then I want to see you back at the Academy!"
Naruto grinned like his usual self, and waved it off, "Don't worry sensei! I'll be there tomorrow!"
Iruka just smiled lightly and nodded, "Take care Naruto."
"You too Iruka-sensei."
Naruto continued up the stairs as he arrived at the office doors, and without even knocking burst in.
"Hey Ojiisan! I'm all better now!"
Hiruzen's eyes widened when he saw Naruto, and he instantly rose from behind his desk and walked over to Naruto to give the 6 year old a loving hug.
"I'm glad to see you're better Naruto. You really had me worried there."
Naruto just smiled, "Too be honest I was worried also. I didn't think I was going to make it for a bit, but I'm a fast healer, so I'm fine."
Hiruzen just smiled as Naruto continued on, "So yeah Ojiisan, I was wondering if you had anything that could help me become a better shinobi. I mean I know that training helps, but since I lost my eye I was wondering if there was something extra hard that would help make up for my handicap.
Hiruzen thought for a bit, all while smiling at Naruto's newly developed determination.
"Well Naruto I do have chakra weights, but you're going to have to promise to take very good care of them, because they're hard to come by."
Naruto's visible eye sparkled as he nodded eagerly, "Sure Ojiisan! How do I use them?"
Hiruzen reached into his desk, pulled out two wrist bands, and handed them to Naruto.
"Well Naruto, all you really have to do is pump your chakra into the weights, and they'll gain more weight, which in turn will make you stronger and faster."
Naruto's eye, once again, lit up at the idea of getting faster as he took them, but then a dilemma came to Naruto's attention.
"Umm...Ojiisan…how do I put chakra into the weights?"
Hiruzen just chuckled as he explained it to Naruto,
"Well Naruto…you know when you create a bushin?"
Naruto nodded as he glanced at Hiruzen to continue.
"Well you just do the same thing with your chakra, but direct it towards the weights, simple as that."
A concerned look etched itself across Naruto's features as he looked up at Hiruzen.
"Am I going to be able to do this Ojiisan? I mean...I can't even make a decent bushin, so I probably won't be able to do this..."
Hiruzen looked at the blonde softly and smiled slightly, "This shouldn't be a problem Naruto. When you create a bushin you need to control how much chakra goes into it to make sure it comes out correctly. With these weights, however, you can just guess and increase or decrease the amount of chakra you're putting in or taking out of them. So essentially these chakra weights will also help with your chakra control.
After Hiruzen was done explaining it to Naruto, the blonde looked down at the weights, and pumped a bit of chakra into them, and they instantly made his hands drop, which in turn caused Naruto to smile widely.
"Thanks Ojiisan! These should help me big time!"
Hiruzen just nodded at Naruto as he watched the boy decrease the amount of chakra he put into the weights. He then proceeded to slip off his sandals, and slide the weights around his ankles.
"Umm Naruto you do realize those are made for your wrists?" Naruto just nodded in response, and after he was done placing the weights around his ankles he looked up at Hiruzen.
"Yeah I know Ojiisan, but this way the weight will be directed to my legs, and not my arms, which will increase my speed dramatically."
Hiruzen's eyes widened slightly as he nodded,
'I'm impressed by Naruto's analyzing. He took something and found a whole new use for it.'
Naruto just kept on grinning as he looked back up at Hiruzen, "Hey Ojiisan are there some scrolls I could use? I mean because part of being an effective shinobi is jutsu."
Hiruzen nodded in agreement, and started to think to himself as he went back into his desk and pulled out a unique scroll that had a padlock type device keeping it shut tight.
"Okay Naruto, this is another rare item. This has yet to be used so it's perfect. This is called a chakra scroll, and it's made for carrying various items for one person's access and their access alone."
Naruto just kept listening while staring at the chakra scroll.
"What you need to do Naruto, is you need to pour some of your chakra into this scroll and it will open and close to your chakra and yours alone. This way you can protect the scrolls I give you, and anything else you want to be kept safe."
Naruto's eye widened for the tenth time that day as he grinned and took the scroll.
After the blonde had taken the scroll Hiruzen turned as he walked over to a section of the wall surrounding his office and poured chakra into it, which caused the wall to shift and reveal another room. Hiruzen glanced back over at the blonde and motioned for him to follow.
Naruto quickly followed as he walked into a room, just overflowing with scrolls. Naruto looked up at Hiruzen in disbelief, which received a simple nod as Naruto walked around the room. The room wasn't necessarily big, but it was a hexagonal shape, and each wall was graced with at least ten shelves, which all held dozens of scrolls. Each wall had a small sign above the shelves, and each sign specified what kind of jutsu that wall contained. After debating for a little bit within his mind he grabbed a D-rank jutsu scroll for Katon(Fire), Suiton(Water), Doton(Earth), Fuuton(Wind), and Raiton(Lightning). He also grabbed a scroll that seemed to have the basics for learning chakra control.
Once Naruto was done grabbing everything that he deemed essential to his training at the time, Hiruzen had him sit back down.
"Now Naruto you can take as many scrolls as you would like, but I would like to make one request.-"
Naruto just looked at the old man with his only visible eyebrow raised in curiosity.
"-Try to learn everything on each scroll that you take before coming to get a new one. I would also like you to keep in mind that some of these will be harder to learn than others. The reasoning behind this is that your chakra has a certain element to it already. So the jutsu that are closely related to that element will be easier to learn that the ones that are not. As an example, someone whose natural affinity is fire will be able to learn katon jutsu with relative ease. When it comes to suiton, however, it'll be a lot more difficult for them, because water is the polar opposite of fire. Lightning doesn't have a directly related weakness however so learning techniques with that element will just depend on how compatible you are with it."
Naruto was still staring at Hiruzen intently, and nodded in understanding at his comments. The old man smiled as he thought for a second.
"As of right now I believe that's all I have for you though. So go out and have some fun with those scrolls."
The blonde smiled and before he was about to leave he remembered something vital that he wanted to ask Hiruzen.
"Hey Ojiisan…when I got attacked…the person used a certain jutsu that I was wondering if you could teach me."
Hiruzen's expression became dead serious when Naruto mentioned the fight as he nodded for the blonde to go on.
"Well when I was backing up to get away…I ran into a clone that was standing behind me. At first I thought it was just a regular bushin, but they are just illusions, which obviously aren't solid. So I was wondering if you knew what it was."
Naruto watched Hiruzen's expression change from one of shock to one of understanding as he gave a small nod.
"Okay Naruto, the jutsu the man used on you was the Kage Bushin no Jutsu(Shadow Clone Technique) what this does is it makes clones that can actually fight with you, and act as an ally. The only bad part about this jutsu is that it requires abnormal amounts of chakra to sustain. The reason behind this is that it divides your total chakra supplies by the number of clones you make, which makes it not only very useful, but also very deadly."
Naruto nodded as he kept his eye on Hiruzen.
"Okay Naruto, now get up. I'm going to show you the basics of the jutsu, and then from there you can perfect it on your own."
- In Room 324 of the Konoha Medical Hospital-
"Are you feeling better now Mr. Shintisko?"
An old man smiled softly at the young girl standing by his bedside as he nodded weakly.
"Good, well I'm leaving for the night. Make sure you press your buzzer if there are any more problems during the night."
With that Azami walked out of the room and down the hallway. She was just about to exit the building when she heard a crash from one of the nearby rooms. She sighed as she slowly walked back towards the room.
Azami walked in the room and flipped on the light as she continued to walk around the room, but found that no one was occupying it at the moment.
'Hmm…must have been rats or something.'
Azami turned around to exit when the door slammed shut, and the lights cut out. Azami's eyes widened as she went to run for the door but stopped as she felt cold steel pressed to her neck.
"Scream and you die…"