Path of a Ninja Arc:
Chapter 2~Even in Death the Hero Have to Save the Princess~
Disclaimer: I'm not the kami of the Narutoverse, so I do not own Naruto or other random reference
A/N: Yeah I have follower. Thank for the reviews and I try to update ASP being in college don't give a lot of free time. Anyway enter the first human shape OC character.
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Demon and other uber being
The Infirmary inside the Hokage Tower
Naruto woke up with Cloud and Crow next to him.
"Yeah! Naru-Kun is alive and best of all we have a new friend to play with," said a spirited Cloud cheered.
"I'm glad to know that my life comes second to meeting new people for you," Naruto deadpanned.
"Well if you do die then you will just ended up as a ghost and we will still be friend," Cloud said with a smile.
"But I will be dead," Naruto said trying to get his point across.
"So it not like I'm going to discriminate against you due to your state of existence," Cloud responded.
"That not the point," Naruto sighed.
Just then the Third Hokage, Hiruzen Sarutobi, steps in to check up on Naruto.
"Ah Naruto you're finally awake I sorry for what happen and will do everything in my power to make sure it won't happen again, anyway how are you feeling right now?" the Thrid asked.
"I'm fine Jiji and thanks for worrying about me I appreciated it," Naruto responded.
"Think nothing of it, it is my job to take care of all the people within this village," said Sarutobi, then he turn his head and saw Crow. "That is an unusually pet you have there will you be able to take care of it Naruto."
"He can see you?" a shock Naruto asked.
"Yes he can see me why wouldn't he?" Crow responded.
"Aren't you like dead therefore a spirit," he stated.
"Yes but I also work for Shinigami-sama as a reaper therefore given certain privilege such as having a physical form that can be seen by those in the physical world," Crow answered.
"Naruto are you taking to the bird and what do you mean by it being dead?" Sarutobi asked.
"Though in this form because they can't communicate with spirits, so for them it will be like speaking to any other animal therefore they wouldn't understand anything I say," Crow added.
"So what do we do now?" Naruto asked.
"We can tell him the truth, from what I remember of the Third I believe him to be trustworthy," Crow said.
"Okay, umm Jiji there something I have to tell you and I don't want other to know about it yet, so can we keep it a secret between us," Naruto asked.
"Sure, let me seal the room so no can eavesdrop on our conversation," Sarutobi said as he began to seal the room, "began."
"Okay let starts with letting you know I know about Kyuubi no Kitsune being seal in me," Naruto stated.
"WHAT! Who told you?" asked an angry Hokage.
"No told me I met him when I pass out along with the Shinigami," said Naruto as he began to tell the Hokage of the meeting between the Shinigami, Kurama, and him.
A Few Minute Later
"So that what happen," Naruto finished after a few minutes of explanation.
"So you gain a Kekkei Genkai from both the Kyuubi and the Shinigami, so what exactly can they do," Sarutobi asked.
"From what Crow-sensei told me the Kitsune no Iyashi (Fox Healing) that I got from Kurama give me an amazing healing ability that range from a slightly increase in regeneration to resistance to most poison. As for the Shinigami no Okurimono (Gift of the Death God) that I got from the Shinigami it allow me to communicate, see and sense the spirits around me but that part of it true potential," Naruto said.
"True potential?" Sarutobi asked.
"Crow-sensei told me that the true purpose of it is to allow me to connect with a targeted soul in order to understand it from its perspective, so in a battle I can know how my opponents think and feel. Then once I am connected to the targeted soul I'm able to manipulated it to effect the mind, body and spirit of my opponent though what that entitle is still unknown to me, me and Crow-sensei are still trying to figure it out, but once we do I will tell you," Naruto said.
"That is truly an amazing ability you have there, Naruto," the Hokage mused.
"Yeah it great and all however Crow-sensei told me that I need to train hard to master it and also to not heavily depend on it and work on my other skill if I want to be an uber ninja like he was," Naruto added.
"That is some good method to follow," the Hokage said.
The Next Day
Naruto followed by Crow and Cloud, were walking pass the bathhouse on their way to the ninja academy when he notice the bottom half of a body sticking out of the wall of the female side of the hot spring.
"You don't see a wall with a pair of legs everyday now do you?" Naruto mused.
"Ah that was some nice anti-emo therapeutic session and I got to say that brunet have some nice c-cup," said the blue spiky hair stranger with emerald green eyes as he pull the top half of his body out of the wall.
"HEY WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU," Crow shouted.
"Yeah you tell him Crow-sensei," Naruto agreed.
"The one with the purple hair's breasts has better skin tone and nipple ratio," Crow commented as Naruto face-fault.
"The black hair one look like her breast jiggle a lot, I bet it will be fun to bounce on them," add a childish Cloud.
"Hentai, hentai all of three of you are hentai," Naruto said with his eye twitching as he pointed a finger at them.
The stranger stared at Naruto.
Naruto stared back.
"…"
"…"
"You can see me?" the stranger asked.
"Yes," Naruto replied.
"So you possess the Shinigami no Okurimono right?" the stranger asked again.
"Yes," Naruto replied again.
"Yahoo, I can finally pass on my legacy," the stranger shouted.
"There's no way I'm letting you turn me into a peeping tom," Naruto said while crossing his arms.
"No, no that come later on, what I'm passing on to you now is my jutsus especially those based around the Shinigami no Okurimono, so followed me my young new apprentice and we will began you torture…err I mean your training," the stranger replied.
"Umm actually I have to get to the academy now and also I'm not allowed to talked to stranger nor follow them anywhere," Naruto said.
"Don't worry about that what you learn in the academy is pretty much useless for being a ninja for the most part and as for the stranger danger it doesn't applied to you because you are an orphan," the stranger commented.
In response Naruto sat down in the corner of woe and cried anime tears saying "I know I'm an orphan but that doesn't mean that it doesn't hurt when people bring it up jerk."
"Hehe Naru-kun's eyes are making raindrop," Cloud giggle as teardrop fall on him.
"Harsh man harsh," Crow added.
"Oh my gosh he's going emo, I must take drastic measure to stop his emo breakdown, Nise no Genjitsu: Tobu e no Buto no Jutsu (False Reality: Boot to the Head Technique)" said the stranger as he threw a knife made entity out of chakra, and when it hit Naruto it causes a boot to appeared out of nowhere and slam into his face, leaving a shoe imprint on his face.
"HAHA that was classic," Kurama laughed in Naruto mind.
'Shut up,' Naruto responded.
"Hey this is the only entertainment I get, it not like there's cable TV in here, anyway get me some beef flavor ramen rabbit, I like a snack with my show," Kurama said.
'Fine here jerk,' Naruto replied as he went back to deal with the stranger.
"OUCH WHAT THE HELL, THAT HURTS AND WHERE DID THAT BOOT COME FROM AND WHERE DID IT GO, BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY WHY THE HELL IS THERE A KNIFE STICKING OUT OF MY BACK," Naruto yelled.
"The knife will disappear when I cancel the jutsu, as for everything else let go somewhere private to talk, people are beginning to look at you like you are crazy and might send you to a mental institution," he replied.
"Yeah like you one to talk," Naruto mumbled as he look around and saw that people were looking at him strangely. He then he nodded and began to follow the stranger.
In a Deserted Training Ground
"Okay before we started our conversation can you please get rid of this knife in my back," Naruto said.
"Oh yeah sorry I forgot about that there," the stranger said innocently as he canceled the jutsu.
Naruto glared at him.
"Okay let start off by introducing ourselves you go first whisker," the stranger said.
"My name is Naruto Uzumaki, the bird is name Crow and this ball of sunshine is name Cloud. And if you don't start telling me how to get you to go to the afterlife, I going to find a priest to exorcise you," Naruto said continuing to glare at him.
"Yeah so my name is Nanashi and I possess the Shinigami no Okurimono too," Nanshi said.
"You have the Shinigami essences seal in you too?" Naruto asked.
"What no. What actually happen to me was I was exposed to a strong concentration of the Shinigami's essences when I was in close approximate to him and now I'm kind of stuck with it," Nanashi responded.
"Yeah that sound like something that the Shinigami would cause," Crow added.
"As for the reason way I haven't move on it is because of two reasons, the first I need to pass on my jutsus and legacy to someone because I die before I could do that and the second is that there's a princess that I have to save from an evil spirit that kidnapped her about 100 year ago and has recently been reported to be sighted around here, anyway about the jutsus I…"
"Wait a 100 years?" Naruto interrupted.
"Yeah a 100 year, anyway back to the jutsus," Nanashi said trying to change the subject.
"It been a 100 year and you still have not been able to rescue her," Naruto deadpanned.
"Um there were a lot of key items to collect," Nanashi said looking away.
"LIAR!" Naruot yelled.
"Minibosses?"
Naruto stared at him with a disbelief look on his face.
"I got lost?"
Naruto continued to stare.
"I hit a glitch,"
"WILL YOU TELL ME ALREADY,"
"Okay, okay the truth is that I was busy peeking at every town, village and city I stop at during my quest," Nanashi admitted as Naruto face-fault.
"Hmm being invisible and intangible to the world makes it great for peeking," Crow nodded his head in an understanding mood.
"Naked girl are fun girls," Cloud said jumping for joy.
"Ero-seishin (pervy-spirit)," Naruto muttered.
"Hi my name is Nanashi," Nanashi stated.
"Hi Nanashi" Crow and Cloud said together.
"I am a pervert and it been 25 minute since I done something perverted" said Nanashi.
"This is not Pervert Anonymous so find help for your problem somewhere else," Naruto deadpanned.
"So back to our discussion the jutsus I developed for the Shinigami no Okurimono based on the aspect of the manipulating the targeted soul and follow the three basics style: the Nise no Genjitsu (False Reality) affecting the mind the soul perceive, Fune o Noroi (Curse Vessel) affecting the body the soul inhabits, Seishin o Kowasu Mono (Spirit Breaker) affecting the very soul itself. The boot to the head that you experience early today…" Naruto growled remembering about the incident "…was due to the Nise no Genjitsu style. From the connection I made with you I was able to alter your perception of reality forcing your mind to experience an illusion of my choice similar to genjutsu, which in this cases a flying boot to the head. However unlike genjutsu these images are not just false image that led the body to believe that it is just in pain but trick the mind to believe the body is actually being physical attack and harm causing actually physical damage to the body, the bruise there on your face is proof of that."
"Okay but what about the chakra knife that your throw at me, not only did it not hurt me but I have no cut mark from it," Naruto observed.
"That because I didn't want it to happen but if I did I could however it did serve a purpose to the jutsu also to calling it a chakra knife is a bit incorrect because I don't use chakra," Nanashi said.
"WHAT! What do you mean you don't use chakra?" Naruto asked.
"What I mean is that I can't use it because I'm dead so no living body no physical energy to mix with spiritual energy, so like your friend Cloud I replace physical energy with natural energy from the air and ground around me, though since your friend is a wind elemental it is easy for him to draw from the air than the earth, and use it to mix it with the spiritual energy to created spiritual essence to perform the jutsu but when you learn these jutsu you will use regular chakra. As for the purpose of the knife they serve as receiver to focuses on the intended target, as you know even when you are connected to a target soul you are still aware of the other souls and spirits around you so you're connected to them on some level. So the illusion is not only seen or hear by the target but also by other around you so to prevent other from suffer unnecessary injury the charka knife are use because when your cast a jutsus you pour some of your soul into it, that why you emotional stated sometime effect the strength of jutsu, therefore the essence of the jutsu is in sync with the essence in the knife that spread out all over the target when it hit them, so the jutsu know who to effected," Nanashi explained.
"Wow that cool, how about the other two styles?" Naruto asked.
"Well the Fune o Noroi is the power to manipulate the state of the body, the possibility of this include diminish the strength of your opponent while augmenting the strength your allies and transferring the damage you and your allies receive to your opponent. And finally the Seishin o Kowasu Mono style, this one literally strike at a person will to fight affecting the emotional state of your opponents causing them to feel from everything to hopeless, fear to pure bliss" Nanashi finished.
"Awesome okay teach me, teach me," an excited Naruto begged.
"Okay holds your horse, we will start with the basic and work our way up," Nanashi said.
"Fine so what do we start with?" Naruto asked.
"Well the logical but boring way to go about this is to start with chakra control mainly due to the fact that the large amount of chakra you possessed from having the fox seal in you make it very difficult to gain control of it," Nanashi pondered.
Naruto groaned at that.
"But I think we can do that after we do it the fun way first," Nanashi said with an evil smirk.
"Which is?" a scared Naruto asked.
"Oh just an evaluation to see where you are at, by bombarding you with a whole lot of Nise no Genjitsu: Tobu e no Buto no Jutsu (False Reality: Boot to the Head Technique) to see how many of it you can dodge and how long you can last," Nanashi said with a evil grin.
"Yeah kick the Naru game," Cloud cheered as Naruto try to escape 'death by footwear'.
Omake:
~Naruto Training Plans~
"Crow and Cloud since we're training Naruto-san in the way of the ninja, then we must come up with a created way to torture him for our entertainment," Nanashi said.
"Um you know I right here," Naruto said.
"Yeah that's a great idea," Crow said.
"New game for Naru-kun," Cloud said.
"Do you guys have selective hearing or something?" Naruto deadpanned.
"First thing on the list is a daily booth to the head to start the day off?" Nanashi started.
"Why am I not surprise here," Naruto sighed.
"Let tie him up and hang him from a tree then beat him with a stick until he learn how to do the Nawanuke no Jutsu (Rope Escape Technique)," Crow added.
"Randomly attacks Naru-kun with sharp pointy things, vital points are worth a 100 point," Cloud said innocently.
"Not you guy too," Naruto said with anime tears.
"Good, good I going to add a booth to the head for motivation," Nanashi added.
"What with your obsession with injuring my head with footwear," Naruto said in the corner of woe.
"And from the look of it another booth to the head to treat any possible emo syndrome" Nanashi said.
Orignal Jutsu List
Nise no Genjitsu: Tobu e no Buto no Jutsu (False Reality: Boot to the Head Technique)
Rank: D
Description: A Shinigami no Okurimono (Gift of the Death God) Kekkei Genkai gag jutsu. Cause a boot to fly and hit the target's face. Use to mock, cause pain, motivation, treat emo syndrome of the target but mostly use for laughs.
A/N: Tune in next time for epic adventure of Naruto in The Spirit of the Ninja until then Sayonara no Jutsu