I will strive Chapter 2 Genin, a naruto fanfic

Chapter 2 Rise Of Death

I will strive

Disclaimer: Sorry I forgot about it last chapter, but you know the drill

Summary Mizuki attempts to get the scroll early the result of Naruto's involvements could never have been imagined. Nor could they have imagined what Naruto would find inside that scroll. Now Naruto's life as a genin has begun, but how has he changed over the last six years.

Helltanz's notes: Well then welcome all readers to the I will Strive expansion the New Chapter 2.

Chapter begin

Hi no Kuni, Konohagakure no Sato

Officially Naruto was an orphan, and officially his parents were listed as 'unknown', this of course was completely bogus, but that was how it had been for a while.

Itachi slipped into the room much like a specter, he was after all a highly skilled member of Konoha's elite Ansatsu Senjutsu Tokushu Butai.

"Ah Itachi you are just in time for breakfast." Remarked the blonde as the meat sizzled on the stove.

"ah, Arigatou Naruto-kun." Murmured the stoic Uchiha quietly. "have your eyes been hurting otoko?" he questioned.

Naruto shook his head. "no the pain has since faded since the day after Mizuki was dealt with." Answered Naruto. "I think I shall travel." The blonde commented off hand really there wasn't much else for him to do in the village given what had happened.

The Uchiha prodigy nodded silently before speaking. "What do you intend to do?" he asked before helping himself to the plate of food the blond had set in front of him.

The blond set down opposite him holding a mug of steaming tea. "I will be training, that is my main goal other than that I have no idea." Naruto commented before drinking from the glass. "How fares the Uchiha clan?" He asked lowering the beverage. "Why haven't they married you off,"

Itachi stared at the blonde in silence, and to what of many would have considered terrible manner after all the Uchiha clan's vaunted prodigy didn't like his marriage status being discussed.

"The clan is fine, as for my marital status the Uchiha are not those tradition bound Hyuga that said father will probably start arranging interviews if I haven't married in three years." Commented Itachi after a few moments with no emotion filtering through his voice.

He nodded acknowledging the statement, "Have you gotten a girl friend?" remarked Naruto.

"No."
The blonde smirked his eyes glimmering. "Do you have any hopeful choices?" he inquired.

"No…" Itachi paused and considered for a moment. "however there are a few choices I would rate over others." The Uchiha heir remarked.

Naruto didn't respond to Itachi's border line hypocritical statement immediately. "ah the lovely and eligible Yugao of the Uzuki family perhaps." He spoke in an easy manner. The young blonde despite being young understood what men and women did together, it was a little hard not to when one had a demon fox in their belly and the Hokage kept extremely graphic porn around.

Itachi's expression didn't change even as he spoke. "She is an acceptable partner." He remarked at last.

"She is in ANBU now isn't she?" The blonde remarked after his own pause to consider what he knew about the sword user.
Itachi nodded after a moment confirming the inquiry. "Yes." Acknowledged the pride of the Uchiha vocally.

"The Uzuki are a small but moderately powerful family," He stated considering the clan in question for a moment, "I am sure they would agree." Stated Naruto.

"Yes the clan can be … persuasive." Itachi acknowledged. "How fairs your sharingan?" He asked, "Your Mangekyo is certainly unique there is no record of it." The ANBU captain commented. "It seemed to trigger the other two Mangekyo forms as well." Itachi added perhaps in what many would mistake as enviously.

Naruto nodded with a slight frown being such a powerful member of the clan Itachi could easily take the Uzuki girl by force and their would be now repercussions, "As for my Sharingan I have mastered Tsukuyomi at least to the extent where I can cast it with the barest of eye contact. And I can dispel it."

Sharingan the genetic trait, the advanced bloodline limit, of the Uchiha clan which made them such famous ninjas passed hereditarily from parent to child. It was hint as to who precisely his parents were. Naruto knew that the blood of the prideful Uchiha clan flowed in his veins.
"And the Amaterasu?" Itachi inquired. Itachi, Uchiha Itachi, the only blood tie that Naruto acknowledged.
Naruto raised an eyebrow in amusement at the question regarding his progress on the technique, "It is a fire Jutsu." Replied the blonde.

"Of course I should have expected no less of you otoko." Responded Itachi in amusement with the Blonde's heritage and chakra one, amongst other things would expect him to have mastered the jutsu. "What about the third? I as of yet have made little progress with it," admitted the prodigal heir of the Uchiha clan. "It has uses if I could master it would be of great use but it is proving more complex than I would have thought."

The blond nodded the advanced form of the Sharingan was powerful in its capacities, especially in that it had the inherent ability to warp space and time. "That is to be expected I would think."

Itachi finished off his breakfast, bowing politely. "Thank you very much for the breakfast Otoko." He stated with a formal stiffness that made up his public façade.

The Uchiha clan didn't recognize Naruto as a member, mainly because they were unaware of the blonde's connection, if they came to know of his possession of the Sharingan and Mangekyo things would no doubt become complicated.

As it stood the Uchiha were one of the powerhouses in Konoha's political landscape they could be powerful allies or deadly enemies. If it was found he possessed the bloodline limit of the Uchiha then there would be problems.

He couldn't stand the idea of being accepted into that clan simply because they learned he had the Sharingan activated, the whole idea disgusted him.

Naruto evaded the bandit with ease cause the common thug to curse violently as he swung his cudgel haphazardly around.

The blonde released a senbon which impaled the man in the back. The brigand's eyes bulged as the needle literally melted and mixed into the wound entering the his blood stream, the sclera and the man's veins turned mercury silver.

He, Naruto, attacked again this time attacking his true target of the night, the leader of this group of scum.

The blonde's sword cut through the air severing the minor warlord's head. The man's eyes widened in shock and the head hit the bamboo floor. "tch another one bites the dust." Remarked Naruto, the black energy warped space and Naruto vanished, eliminating rogue samurai and ninja.

All of this all of this was just to get more experience, oh the money was nice but really fighting these people was not a problem. To kill them all he could have just attacked with shadow clones and used a earth style jutsu but then he would have learned nothing, and that was only one method he could have used to kill the thugs.

Naruto had let to full grasp the changes that had been wrought to his body, but he would need to figure them out. If he was going to live on his own he needed to get stronger, simply relying on chakra was out of the question.

Right now he could use chakra to overwhelm his enemies, yes with that he could win but fighting that way taught him nothing about the other ways to kill.

To become strong enough to survive he needed to master all the ways of war, to do that he needed to have the skill to kill with a blade, or with his bare hands. He needed to be strong enough not to have to rely on his natural talents like a bloodline.

He lashed out angrily as he reappeared in the physical world, using the Sharingan was out of the question, he couldn't be identified as a member of that clan it would complicate things far too much.

Power, it was a word with a number of definitions. The Uchiha were not only feared as powerful ninjas, but they wielded a great deal of political power as well.

Old Man Sarutobi was the same in that regards he had a great deal of political power as not only the head of the venerable Sarutobi Clan, he was the Third Hokage of Konoha, and of course he was a very powerful Shinobi even as an old man.

The Sandaime commanded around a thousand ninja who were on active duty and there were many more who were on reserves. The Kages, the Shadows, the leaders of the five great ninja villages were like the Daimyos in that regard.

Daimyos the feudal lords who ruled over the lands, employed their own armies the samurai, that was a type of power as well.

Energy, black, dark, shadowy energy coated his hand as he angrily lashed out and punched a tree. He needed to get stronger that much was apparent if he was going to be able to avoid the machinations of those with power.

Naruto flexed his fingers, all in all dealing with the missing ninja in the country side was easy but one or two, the darkness seemed especially potent as a method of delivering a lethal blow but as the blonde noted it had side affects… his hair turned fucking silver and his eyes were purple… "I look like the damn Shinigami." Naruto grumbled. "Oh that might be cool." The now silver haired son of the Hokage remarked as a thought struck him.

He could felt the dark exceptionally potent chakra flowing through his body, it was easily recognizable as being different from the chakra of the demon fox. That very fact made it very interesting.

The Blonde turned away from the water in his hand was a long white tachi he had liberated from some Yakuza thug in one of the towns he had passed through. Swords were something he would need to use.

It was only a matter of time until something likely forced him to use the cursed blood of a parent he had never known, and when that time came everything would change.

Chakra the combination of spiritual and physical energy allowed for Shinobi to perform superhuman feats, to be able to harness the very power of the elements to strike their foes.

Youki the energy that demons used, raw and powerful which could restore the dying to health with little effort and make them able to fight even harder. It was an energy which could not only heal but could destroy mountains.

He could use both but that wasn't all, he could use something else, something that killed and absorbed the dead, something which overpowered the potent power of his own Mangekyo as well as even overpowering the Kyubi's potent energy.

This power like all the others made changes to his body, like all the forms of energy made changes, but chakra was the only thing that he really had any concrete evidence as to what it was doing.

If he was going to survive on his own, a choice Naruto had decided, he would need to become powerful, not simply physically but to grasp power in all its forms so he could be independent.

Whatever cursed blood flowed through his veins was both a powerful asset and also a potential weakness because it would attract the attention of powerful figures. To avoid their intentions Naruto knew that he would have to become powerful enough to deter them from seeking to interfere with him.

For everything he killed he became more powerful, he learned something new, he was a shinigami, but at the present he was still not strong enough to stand on his own against the powers that existed out there.

Slowly Naruto considered the dark energy that he used to travel from point to point, it was passing through a realm that was different from the ones humans inhabited, but not the Makai that demons inhabited. It was a realm which responded however to the terribly potent dark energy that Naruto could use to kill.

Even so even if it was somewhere he could go to train on his own, without fighting real opponents, people who were actually trying to kill him he would be limited.

Years passed for the blonde time he spent carving out a bloody reputation and growing stronger, however he had long since realized that power as a person did not make him invulnerable.

Since he had left the hidden leaf village so long ago he had learned things about the world and learned secrets about himself. Bloodlines were extremely valuable gifts and coveted by those with power, and they were noticeable.

Naruto was interested in acquiring power, when he had been younger he had been interested in becoming a strong ninja like the third Hokage but that had just been something of a dream not a goal. The difference between a dream and a goal was that a dream was what children had they didn't understand the complexities involved in such tasks.

All of that had changed though Naruto now was a powerful shinobi, but having that power complicated matters immensely. He had power, and that power went beyond simply his own abilities.

People were now under his command, he had become like his dream yet not, he had responsibilities and he had his own sources for intelligence, but he wasn't Hokage, he was Hitokiri and more.

The blonde assassin turned, he was the being which kept the Kyubi imprisoned, but unlike other containers for the tailed demons he was shinigami. Death was of course only one facet of his occupation, but he was an assassin, but as someone with power over other ninja he did have other tasks.

Obligations were owed to him, and in turn he had his own obligations to fufill this was the way power worked and Naruto understood that now, and those obligations were calling.

At one point in time Naruto Uzumaki would have been estatic to learn who his parents were, now it was something he was forced to deal with. His heritage put further obligations on his shoulders, but there was little that could be done, because those obligations as bothersome as they were also had their benefits.

End chapter

Helltanz's Note: so sharingan is revealed earlier well to the readers.