Well this is the 2nd chapter of Stolen Jinchuriki. I have honestly been a little obsessed lately. I have chapters 3 and 4 written down in a note book. I actually had to shorten this chapter from its original length because I know if I took anymore time off from writing Rebirth of the Namikaze someone might hunt me down and kill me. So enjoy!
DreamScape, Reiko's perception
Two young children stood alone in a field surrounded on all sides by trees. Reiko looked up from the flower she had picked to see a little blond haired boy that could have been her dad's clone in 30 years. "Nii-san!" she yelled running over to the boy, stumbling a little bit with her little 5 year old legs.
The blond boy looked up a goofy grin plastered on his face. Reiko wrapped him in a tight hug. "I miss you Nee-chan." The little blond boy said hugging her back.
"Nii-san where have you been, Kaa-san and Tou-san are worried about you?" She asked. The blond boy opened his mouth to speak but was silenced when a massive bushy tail came swinging down. He pushed Reiko back before tail landed effectively cutting the two off from each other.
Where the tail hit the earth cracked open and molten lava came bubbling out of the fissure. Suddenly all the plant life around and in the field started to withered and died, leaving a barren wasteland in its wake. Reiko looked up to see the gigantic form of the nine tailed fox leering at her. "Give him back!" She shouted up at the fox.
The giant creature let out a cruel peal of laughter "He's mine now child, you'll never get him back." It said in an evil monotone. It let out another sadistic laugh before a mist rolled in. "Nee-chan help me!" Reiko heard a voice call out from behind the fox tails.
"Nii-san!" She called running at the fox. She tried desperately to reach her twin. The distance between her and the fox only seemed to increase the faster she ran. Her knees suddenly gave out she started to cry her eyes out as she was returned to her 13 year old self.
DreamScape, Naruto's perception
As the tail fell he pushed his sister out of the way. When it hit the ground his scenery changed he was now in what seemed to be a sewer. An enormous fox and the Mizukage came out of the shadows. Without a word Yagura pulled his hooked staff and started to take swings at Naruto.
"Nee-chan help me!" He screamed.
He could hear a faint response but couldn't make out what she was saying. He screamed as Yagura took a final swing and pierced his chest.
Real World Konoha
"NARUTO!" Reiko woke screaming. She was sweating profusely and her night gown clinging to her body. She begins to cry again. She reached over to her night table and grabbed the picture frame from her bedside table. It was the only picture she had of bother her and Naruto. It was from the day they were born and the day before her brother died. Both she and Naruto were in her mother's arms in a hospital bed and her father stood next to her mother his arm wrapped around her.
She hugged the frame to her chest and continued to cry. Minato and Kushina suddenly burst into her room. "Reiko what's wrong?" Her mother asked sitting down next to her daughter.
"Why'd he have to die? Why? I don't even have a memory to remember him by." She cried into her mother's shoulder.
Even though she had never really known her twin brother she had always felt some sort of bond. Ever since she could remember she had been haunted by dreams of her brother and the image of what she thought he might look like. It was like his spirit was trying to make her feel guilty for not being chosen as the jinchuriki and dyeing that night.
Kushina and Minato exchanged a guilty look. "Should I tell her?" Minato mouths. Kushina nods stroking her daughter's bright red hair. "Honey your mother and I have something we need to tell you." He says.
"What is it otou-san." She asks sniffling slightly
"We have been keeping a secret from you for a long while now. We feel that now that you are a shinobi we believe you are ready to hear this." Minato begins. Reiko has a look of fascinated interest on her face. "Your brother isn't really dead…" Reiko's face drops and with rage in her eyes. "As far as we know he could be alive. The day of the Kyubi attack your brother was kidnapped from his hospital bed. We aren't sure by whom, but there is a good possibility he is alive. As a jinchuriki he was probability that they trained him as a weapon, so if we ever find him he won't be the kind loving brother you dream of." He said.
Reiko jumps out of the bed and starts yelling. "Why the hell aren't we looking for him? There should be ANBU roaming the entire continent looking for him. Why didn't you guys tell me sooner I could be helping with the search?" She cried.
"Honey don't you think that we tried. We looked everywhere in the land of fire, I personally led squads for months but we came up with nothing." Kushina said on the verge of tears. She suddenly perked up.
"Minato aren't the chunin exams in a few months?" He asked.
"Yes but what does that have to do with…no… you're not considering what I think you are, are you?" Minato looked extremely nervous and Kushina looked excited. Reiko on the other hand was thoroughly confused.
"Of course I am why not?" She asked.
"Kushina do you realize what you are implying, every nation in the elemental nations, some of them hostel, in Konoha at once. It is a good idea for finding him but not for running a shinobi village. What if one of them, specifically Iwa, decides to attack? " He said
"Then deal with them, besides aren't you on good terms with the new Raikage right, if needed they can help you."
"Kushina on good terms doesn't mean he will help me repel and invasion. He might even join in if he thinks it is good for Kumo." Minato shot back.
"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU TWO TALKING ABOUT?" Reiko creamed
'Reiko watch you language. What your father and I are discussing is the idea that we invite all the shinobi villages to try and lure out those who kidnapped your brother and bring him home." Kushina said.
"Please daddy, please. Even if he isn't this amazing person, I want to be able to go through life saying I at least knew my brother, even if only for a few weeks." She said putting on a puppy dog face.
"Alright we'll try it, besides I want to see my boy." Minato says.
"Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!" Reiko says hugging Minato tightly.
"Ok now you need to get to bed young lady, your first day of training is tomorrow.
Kiri the next morning.
Naruto splashed water from the sink onto his face. He had had a rough night and he had huge bags under his eyes. He had woken up screaming about a sister he never had. Nori had said it was because he subconscious wanted a sibling, and left it at that. He dawned his jump suit and pulled his hood and mask up. He jumped out his window not bothering to eat, knowing Zabuza he would just barf it up at the end of the warm up.
It was very quiet not many people on the streets, but he stuck to the rooftops just in case. He wasn't really in the mood to deal with people right now. As the morning sun rose over the mist he landed at The Hall of the Seven Blades. The outside looked very bland not a lot of glamour to it. Then again when you consider the personalities of the men and women who live there, it isn't a big surprise. He slowly walked to Zabuza's room trying not to disturb any of the other swordsmen who might be meditating.
He slowly slid open the door to his sensei's room. Zabuza was sitting against the wall in his jonin garb meditating with the Kubikiri Hocho and his knees. Naruto sat down next to him in the same position. Zabuza opened his eyes and got up. "Stop wasting time brat we've got a lot of shit to do today." He said walking to the door. Naruto jumped up and followed him in silence.
They walked down a winding corridor and descended flight after flight of stairs. They finally came to an ornately carved door. Engraved in gold and mother of pearl on the door was the kanji for 'one with the blade' underneath was 'Armory of One Thousand Blades'. Zabuza stopped about five feet from the door. "This is far as I go kid. The rest is up to you." Zabuza said walking away "Remember what I taught you kid." He said as he disappeared from sight.
Naruto slowly opened the door and walked in. The room was pitch black except for one torch that was lit on the wall next to him. He picked it up and lit the urn of oil next to it. The oil instantly ignited and the flame continued to travel igniting more and more urns. He finally got a good look at the room, as far as the eye could see swords lined the racks on the walls. He saw blade designs he didn't even recognize but many he did. He flaired his chakra like he was told to by Zabuza. After a few minutes he began to get worried. If he didn't feel the pull of one of the blades choosing him as it's wielder he would not be allowed to continue training with Zabuza and would have to join a normal team.
He was about to leave when he began to feel a pull. He almost jumped for joy, but was able to hold a calm composure. He began to walk down the hall following the pull. As he walked he began to notice stone statues of samurai with actual sword on their hips. "These must be the guardians Zabuza was talking about. " He mumbled to himself. For another half an hour he walked down the never ending hall, the pull becoming stronger with every step. Finally he found it.
The design was of a basic katana, the scabbard was a rich black color with the kanji for Shishi-ken inscribed on the side. The hilt was wound in black cloth with a lion head ornament on the pommel. The tsuba had a design of two male lions circling each other. Naruto quickly drew the blade to admire the blade. The moment the sword was fully draw a deafening lion's roar was heard. "Not too stealthy is it? Though I doubt they would put this sword in here if there was no way to stop the roar." He said to himself. He sheathed his new sword and proceeded to leave the room.
He walked back to Zabuza's room and found a note on the door.
'Hey Brat,
If you are chosen by a sword, I guess you're not a complete failure after all and your one step closer to joining our ranks one day. If you failed get your scrawny ass back to the academy and join a team next year, you useless piece of crap…'
Naruto skipped down a bit past the constant insults his master wrote. 'Before you meet Haku and I at the Mizukage's office you need to make up for lost time with your warm-up. I want you to do double your morning workout and I expect you to be done in half the time. Make sure to hurry the Mizukage has a mission for us.'
Naruto groaned loudly. His normal morning workout included 3 laps around the village, 2000 pushups, and working through his 37 katas twice. It usually took around two hours, and now he had to pull it off in an hour. 'I'm gonna kill Zabuza one day' He thought to himself.
70 minutes later
Naruto dropped from the roof in front of Zabuza and Haku who were working on Haku's bellow average taijutsu skills.
"Your late brat." Zabuza said not bothering to stop working with Haku.
"Only by ten minutes! Besides you had me doing double my…"
Zabuza blocks a punch of Haku's and then drop kicks Naruto."No excuses!" He yelled. Naruto flew back about ten feet and crashed into a wall making a small crater. "As punishment you're going to adopt this as your new morning workout and I expect it done in one hour and not a minute later." Zabuza said going back to training with Haku. Naruto climbed out of the crater grumbling.
After about five minutes Zabuza and Haku stopped training, "Now let's see this new blade of yours." He said.
Naruto drew Shishi-ken and presented it to Zabuza. Zabuza looked it over quickly and started to walk away. "Eh it's ok, I guess." He said.
"OK? What the hell's wrong with it?" Naruto said
"Nothing is wrong with the sword; the wielder on the other hand needs a lot of work." Zabuza said walking into the Mizukage's office followed by Haku.
Naruto sighed pulling off his glove and making a small cut on the back of his hand. He coated the edged of Shishi-ken with it, cleaned the blade and sheathed it, following after Zabuza and Haku.
The three shinobi waited outside the office before being ushered in by the secretary, a retired shinobi herself. As they walked in they dropped to one knee to show respect before their leader.
"Rise you three, we don't have a lot of time. Zabuza you next assignment will be to assassinate a bridge builder. He is trying to defy Gato who is currently running the Land of Waves threw a puppet government. If the bridge is complete he will lose control of the country." The Mizukage said.
"Isn't Gato that big hotshot shipping tycoon? What would he need a country as poor as wave for?" Haku said.
"That isn't much of our concern; you have your mission now move out." The Mizukage said.
"Sir one thing before we leave I was told that I would be getting a third member for our team soon will we be picking her up now or when we get back?" Zabuza asked
"Yes Kiku should be meeting you at the gate, dismissed." The Mizukage said.
The three shinobi quickly exited the building and picked up the gear they left outside. "Alright I should warn you guys that this girl is from the Kashikoi clan. As you know it is a very prestigious clan in Kiri. They have an odd ocular jutsu known as the Junsuimokushi, it is said to be able to see into your very soul and tell what you are thinking. I'm not sure what is rumor and what is true so don't do anything stupid. Got it?" Zabuza said.
"Hai, Zabuza sensei, the two boys said.
"The Kashikoi clan is also renowned for its exotic styles of swordsmanship, so pay attention brat and you just might learn something." Zabuza continued.
The three arrived at the front gate a few minutes later. They found a young girl around Naruto and Haku's age leaning against a wall.
"Are you Kiku?" Zabuza asked.
"I am sensei." The girl said walking over towards them. She stood at about 5'2 with shoulder length black hair. Her skin was pale and it was obvious she didn't get out much. She wore a faint grey gi top except it was a bit tighter on her body than a normal gi; she had average black ninja pants, a multitude of blades were adorned on her body. She had a Kampilan on her back, a Kalis strapped to her thigh and a Dahong Palay on her right hip.
Her most striking feature of all though was here eyes. The irises were a deep topaz yellow; the pupil was a five sided black star, inlayed with a crimson pentagram which was constantly rotating; the Junsuimokushi.
"Ok brat I want to know your abilities, what you are strong in, your weaknesses and special skills. I want nothing left out because I have seen many times what can happen when a shinobi tries to hold back a flaw. It usually results in someone winding up dead, and it sure as hell is never the enemy."Zabuza stated.
Kiku thought for a moment and began "For my basic physical abilities, I am a 6th level blade master studying my family styles of swordsmanship."
"How many levels are there?" Zabuza asked.
"12…" She seemed to hesitate for a moment
"Out with it girl, there will be no secrets on this team, from any of you." Zabuza barked aiming the last bit at Naruto.
"I also must create and perfect my own battle tested style. I weigh around 109 pounds and I stand at 5 foot 2 inches. I have been training in speed and cardiovascular endurance since I was five, and taijutsu styles since 7." She said
"Well then Naruto I guess you will have a training partner, because she will be joining you with your new training regiment." Zabuza said. Naruto shot her a look of pity, but Kiku just seemed confused.
"As I was saying, my jutsu skills are lacking in both ninjutsu and the use of most genjutsu, though my eyes can see through any genjutsu I have ever encountered. My funinjutsu is very rudimentary and will probably stay that way for awhile but I do know a few useful seals." She said finishing.
"Good now get acquainted with your team mates I need to go get clearance to leave." Zabuza said walking away.
"Hello my name is Haku; it's nice to meet you." Haku said holding out his hand.
Kiku shook his hand but never broke eye contact, the pentagrams in her eyes started to spin faster till they were just a blur of red. "You are a tortured soul Haku; you carry a great shame upon your shoulders. You hide it behind laughter and a mask. What happened to make your soul feel such guilt?" Kiku asked curiously.
Haku took his hunter-nin mask off from his hip and put it on. "I'd rather not talk about it." Haku said his usual happy mood completely gone.
"Our sensei just told us not to keep any secrets. Please tell us it may help you heal your tattered soul." Kiku said a little bit of emotion showing in her voice for the first time.
Haku turned away but began his story. "My people lived on a small island just inside Kiri's borders. We had been loyal shinobi to the 1st and 2nd Mizukages, my father used to tell me stories when I was young about some of our clans exploits; things went very wrong though. When I was a child my Kekkei Genkai manifested itself early around my 3rd birthday, the gene had been dormant for a few generations and I was the first one to posses it in 20 years. The 3rd Mizukage had heard of my power, and though had step down several years previously he still had a few squads of ANBU under his control. He ordered them to seize me and leave no trace of the attack.
It was the middle of the night when the attack started. My family awoke to the screams of our neighbors. My father a hunter nin for Yagura left to investigate. It was a devious plan. Half of the ANBU pretended to be Iwa invaders and the other half pretended to be trying to evacuate the civilians, when they turned their backs they were killed. This was the fate my father suffered. My mother was killed trying to protect me when they stormed the house. I was taken to the outskirts of the village before an ANBU squad led by Zabuza and Naruto's foster mother Nori intercepted us. They killed the men and Nori rushed me to Kiri before the other 3rds ANBU could catch up. Zabuza and the rest of Yagura's ANBU killed or arrested the remaining ANBU but none of my people survived the attack.
Yagura went personally to investigate and found that the 3rd had somehow been notified of the failure and had time to escape. Notes in his house though suggested he was using my Kekkei Genkai as a bargaining chip to try and get the secret to some immortality Jutsu from the Konoha traitor Orochimaru. My people were slaughter all because of me…" Haku said
"After that Haku came to live with me for a few years till we began to train under Zabuza. He moved into the Hall of Seven Swords when our training began." Naruto said finishing the story. Haku was too saddened to continue.
"I'm sorry to hear this Haku. I truly hope that you will someday forgive yourself for something that was out of your control." Kiku said. He said nothing to acknowledge he heard her. "Now who are you?" She asked turning to Naruto.
"My name is Naruto." He said unable to take his gaze away from her eyes. The spinning pentagram seemed to hypnotize him.
"You are so angry what do you have to be angry about Naru…AHHH" Kiku said interrupted by burst of red chakra throwing her off her feet.
Naruto immediately snapped out of his trance "Looks like the fox isn't too pleased with your attempt at soul-searching. Trust me being thrown off your feet was a blessing, he could have let you see his soul. Knowing what the fox is capable of his thoughts may have driven you insane." Naruto said nonchalantly. "And to answer your question, next time we are walking around Kiri look around and you'll figure it out." Naruto said bitterly.
"So you're the one they are always talking about, the Jinchuriki of the Kyubi right?" She asked genuinely interested.
"Ya so you've heard about me. Are you going to start running yet or try to kill me with one of those letter openers you call swords?" Naruto asked
"Of course not, you can repel my Junsuimokushi that feat alone would earn great respect from me and my clan. The fact you also are studying to become one of the Seven Swordsmen of the Mist earns even more respect." Kiku said.
Naruto just stared wide eyed at the girl. Not only had she complimented his kenjutsu skills, she also wasn't afraid that he was the Kyubi container, she even respected him for it. He was going to get along fine with this girl.
Konoha
Reiko sat down next to Hinata bubbling with excitement. "Today's the big day" She said.
"Yep, so who do you want on your team?" Hinata asked
"Well you of course, and maybe Shikamaru, it would be nice to have genius on our team." She responded. "So who do you want?" Reiko asked.
"You and hmmm, maybe…"
"Good morning class please sit down while I tell you your team assignment. Sakura that means you stop obsessing over Sasuke for five minutes and sit down" Iruka said interrupting what Hinata was going to say. He called off 6 teams then said. "Team 7: Namikaze, Reiko, Hyuga, Hinata, and Uchiha, Sasuke." 90% of the female population of the room gave the two girls a death glare. The girls both groaned about being stuck with the emo king of Konoha. "Your Jonin sensei will be Kakashi Hatake."
"NO!" Reiko screamed. "Please Iruka-sensei can we please switch senseis please!" Reiko begged.
"What is wrong with Kakashi Reiko? He is a highly accomplished ninja, and he was your father's student. I believe you know him personally as well." Iruka said
"That's the problem I know what Kakashi is like. He is always late, lazy, and a downright perv. I can bet you he is right now reading one of Jiriya-jiji's little orange books." Reiko said.
"Well Reiko, those are all reason's that I should leave you three with Kakashi. You obviously seem to have experience with the man and putting another team with him would just be unfair." Iruka said.
Reiko just sat back down grumbling about being stuck with Kakashi.
3 hours later
"See this is exactly what he does!" Reiko screamed. Class had ended two hours ago and Kakashi had still not showed up. "Well I'm going to look for him anyone else with me."
Hinata jumped up and walked over next to Reiko. Sasuke sighed and got up with a 'fine' but made no move to follow them. Reiko opened the window and jumping onto the roof of the nearest building, Hinata and Sasuke following behind her. They ran through half the village looking for him finally ending their search on the roof of the academy.
"Where the hell is he god on a day he is supposed to receive a team you would think he would be easier to find?" Reiko complained.
"What are you looking for Reiko?" A voice said from behind her.
She whirled around to see Kakashi sitting in a lawn chair with a little orange book in his hands. "Besides shouldn't you kids be in class?" Kakashi asked
"Class was over THREE HOURS AGO!" Reiko screamed "And you got so caught up in your perverted little books you lost track of time."
Kakashi just laughed nervously, "Looks like I did, doesn't it?"
Reiko screamed grabbing Kakashi's book and turned to Sasuke. "You know fire jutsu right?"
Sasuke just shrugged. Reiko groaned. "A yes or no would help."
"A know a few. What's it to ya?" He asked.
"Burn this for me will ya, and in return I will get Sakura off your back." The second he heard this Sasuke was making the necessary hand signs.
"Wait stop you two ughfff." Kakashi said shot back into his chair by a Juken shot to the chest.
"Sorry sensei." Hinata said.
"Thanks Nata," Reiko called. "Pull!" She shouted throwing the book in the air. Five fire balls shot directly at the book. A black blur snatched up the book from mid air narrowly avoiding the fireballs. Kakashi landed a few feet away without a scratch his book already open.
"Very good you three you've passed the final test. And early I might add." Kakashi said.
"Wait what test I thought we passed yesterday?" Asked Hinata
"Yes you did pass that test, but all Jonin sensei are given an option to give a final test of their own making and if the Hokage doesn't think it's too difficult for the average academy student. I was going to test you tomorrow on your ability to work together as a team but seeing this display here has shown me you can work together. Though one of you needs to learn he should help his teammates out without a motivation." Kakashi said staring at Sasuke. "Now go home and get some rest, tomorrow we have our first mission."
Next Day Mission Hall
Team 7 walked up to the hall wondering what kind of mission they would get; or at least the girls were Sasuke was silent.
"Most likely you'll receive the mission to retrieve Tora the cat. She's the Daimyo's wife's pet and she is always, and I repeat always running off. The little thing is vicious as a wolverine too." Kakashi said. The girls looked really depressed and slightly horrified. Sasuke still didn't care.
As Team 7 walked into the mission office, they heard the Hokage and Iruka arguing, quite loudly too.
"In all respect Hokage-sama they are not ready for this mission." Iruka said.
"We are under manned as it is right now so we need to send them out." The Hokage said.
"They only graduated two days ago they aren't ready yet." Iruka shot back
"Kakashi get in here and give Iruka you assessment of your team." The fourth said not bothering to turn around.
Team 7 walked in, the genin slightly nervous about what they had gotten in the middle of. "Sensei, yesterday team 7 was able to use team work to complete an object. Hinata disabled me momentarily with a well placed juken strike allowing the other two to complete the object. Sasuke used the phoenix sage fire technique perfectly, but he needs to learn not to be driven by a reward. Though she didn't use a jutsu, Reiko was the one orchestrating the entire operation. I believe that they have the skill of a squad months old and the possibility to be one of the top genin teams in Konoha very soon." Kakashi said.
"Kakashi might I ask what this objective was that involved jukening you and a fire jutsu?" Iruka asked
"We tried to steal his perverted book and burn it, but he got it back at the last minute. We would have burned it too if he wasn't so fast." Reiko said. The Hokage and Iruka tried desperately to hold back their laughter.
When everyone regained their composer Minato spoke. "We have a C ranked escort mission for you four. I know that your team is fresh out of the academy but we have no other options all of the other experienced genin teams are on missions along with the low ranking chunin, the higher chunin are on B missions and most jonin are either with a squad a genin or on a special assignment. I have talked with the client in question and I feel it is important to see this mission through. So we had no choice but to call up the most capable of the new genin squad we could think of." He said.
"The client is a bridge builder from the land of waves. The Land of Waves is a small island set in the old Uzushiogature territory. A once prosperous shipping nation; it has recently fallen on hard times; they decided to build a bridge to the mainland to help with trade. The builder Tazuna came to the Land of Fire to meet with some contractors, he wants to hire a shinobi escort to make sure that he gets back to the Land of Wave without a scratch.
Team 7 do you accept this mission?" Minato asked
"Yes sir." Team 7 said together.
Well so far this is the longest chapter I have ever written for any of my stories so I feel kind of proud. I haven't had a lot of time for editing it so I apologies for any spelling or grammatical errors. When I read my own work I don't pick up on the spelling a lot because I know what it is supposed to say. If things get too bad I plan to repost an edited chapter.
Also I am betting most people have no Idea what the blades Kiku use look like, so I am going to put a link to images of them on my profile
Now for an update, I have the first 1000 some words for Rebirth of the Namikaze already typed out so when I get somewhere around 3000 + I will post it and hopefully I will be well worth the wait.
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