A Change In History
This Chapter is for all intents and purposes to relate the events leading up Naruto's summoning as well as give a semi-detailed description of the Naruto in this story including his abilities and other skills as he will not be the same one from Shippuden
I my eyes he only grew taller in the 3 years he spent training in the canon story and as such feel that he should have some new skills other than height and some more common sense.
Once again, I don't own Naruto or Avatar
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CrimsonTearsSharingan: Thank you for your review and here is, as requested, the next chapter. Also to answer your questions, yes Naruto will teach to the benders chakra control/jutsu but will take place while in Ba Sing Se with only limited instruction if any, before that. Sokka will be learning many thing but sorry, no jutsu, cause as I understand, you have to develop the chakra coils early on and he didn't, he will however be given extensive Taijutsu and Kenjutsu training, almost making him a stand in for Lee from Naruto's world, just more normal, a LOT more. So while he won't super, he will at least serve more of a purpose and actually be useful.
For those who are wondering if Naruto will learn bending, the answer is no, he is too strong already in my eyes for the skills he will have in the story and also, I am making bending a widespread blood limit that gives incredible control over a select element through a very, very, strong affinity.
'Three years' thought Naruto as he and his godfather walked through the desert.
'It's been three years since I left, I wonder just how everyone is doing."
It had been so long since that day he had left the village to become stronger, young, headstrong, naïve.
His goals had changed a lot and very little during that time.
He still wanted to be Hokage of course, but two of his main reasons for going in the first place had been left behind as he had trained.
His three reasons for going had been to get stronger to become Hokage, return Sasuke, and fulfill his promise to Sakura.
The last two reasons no longer mattered to him anymore.
The first to go was his promise. After enough badgering from Jiraiya, he had finally seen his childish infatuation for what it really was, a childish infatuation.
He had let a hope that she would return his feelings or acknowledge him cloud his judgment, hell, she even admitted to saying she would have left Konoha to go with him, betray the village. That was one thing that always made his blood boil, traitors.
The next was to return Sasuke. He had made clear his intentions long ago when he plunged his hand into Naruto's chest. He didn't want to return, that much was certain. That, and who calls someone their friend when putting their hand in your chest? Certainly not the spiritual brothers as Naruto had once thought they were.
It didn't help that Naruto learned what really happened during the Uchiha massacre. That and the secret of the Mangekyou Sharingan, that really didn't help at all.
No longer blinded by childish fantasies and tired of his own inadequacy, he made a new goal.
To become powerful enough to prove that he was worthy of the title of Hokage, and under his own power too.
Sure he could use the power of the Kyuubi and have power like that, but what was the point, that would only make people fear him more if he were to use that power and that would hinder his goal, not help it.
That fear had made his life hell for so long, why make it worse when he could shove it in their faces that his power was his own and that they had tried to hinder what would one day protect them. (AN: I going to make his life a little worse than it was in canon, comparable to Gaara's if you must know.)
That and if people feared him how could he get their respect, and respect from fear isn't really respect at all, is it.
Thus he trained, he trained to find acceptance, to have the power to protect and defend like a Hokage should, and prove that he was worthy of his dream and with Naruto, when he makes a goal he works towards it until he made it or died trying.
It hadn't been an easy time at all. He had had so many holes in his education and training that it had made it look like he would have to use several training trips to fix them.
It didn't help that Jiraiya would tell him to do something and disappear for days on end.
Thus when he had returned from his latest outing Naruto sat him down and told him that he needed more training then he was currently getting. It didn't hurt that he gave his new reason for wanting to do so either.
To Jiraiya it almost looked like he was talking to Minato again since the boy was so serious as opposed to his normal aloof personality. He couldn't help but remember that Sarutobi said that Naruto was the embodiment of the Will of Fire.
Not long after that talk he would be around more, always helping Naruto with his forms or giving him pointers on this or that.
It had been a total accident when Naruto had learned that he learned what his clones did.
Flashback
He had gone into town to find the pervert and get some pointers on this new jutsu he was learning. He had tracked the man down to one of the towns 'gentlemen' clubs. Rather than go in himself he had sent in a clone. A few hours of waiting, he about to go inside himself to find the man when he suddenly rocketed back with a giant fountain of blood coming from his nose, leaving him in a pile on the ground, this was how Jiraiya had found him. (AN: Naruto + ''Gentlemen's' club' + Jiraiya + a few hours = you figure it out)
End Flashback
After that incident, Naruto's training went to entirely new levels. Jiraiya had known that you learned what your clones did but didn't factor in the fact that Naruto could make several hundred, so he hadn't mentioned it. Now he wished he had earlier.
A few days of Naruto going to a town's library and making as many clones as he could and then reading all the books there had filled in most if not all the holes in his shoddy classroom education. If anything, it made him more knowledgeable than most people back in Konoha. This didn't really help him in the physical skills department but he accepted that limitation, it would have been too easy the other way.
Once he had made it to a level in his skills where Jiraiya had pulled Naruto aside one day and said to him, "Gaki, I'm proud of you, you have proven to me that you have the drive and courage to shoot for your goals and attain them one day. I was told before we had left, that once I felt that you had attained the skills, power, and knowledge necessary, that you would be given the rank of Chuunin, good job." He then proceeded to hand over to him the green flak jacket that went with the rank.
Naruto was speechless, he just stood there holding the jacket, he soon snapped out of it, but rather than jump up and down proclaiming this and that he controlled himself and thanked the man that had helped him get there.
(AN: Naruto is growing up and is more knowledgeable and mature, somewhat on the mature part. Also, shinobi villages are composed of several hundred shinobi right? So how the hell do you get them more than half of them to Chuunin and above, before they are 18 in most cases? You can't do it in a semi-annual contest where there will be at most, 20, who go onto the finals, that and most don't make it to the rank once they are there? You can't, thus there has to be a way that they get the rank outside of the exams. Naruto knows this since it is a part of a shinobi's knowledge and was taught to him either at the academy or by Jiraiya. The exam is just a more public way of gaining the rank and showing off a nation's teams and skills.)
Jiraiya was smiling the whole time but he soon became serious again.
He then pulled a scroll from him coat and gave it to him. He said, "That, is your inheritance, it was left to you by your father, Namikaze Minato, or the Yondaime Hokage. That is his letter to you, written right before the sealing. It was never his intention for you to be seen and treated as you were. You were to be given it when you became a Jounin but I'm giving it to you early since you may need it now, not later."
His eyes going wide when he had heard about the inheritance, they soon narrowed in anger and hurt, now settling on grudging acceptance. He took the scroll and went off into the woods, he wanted to be alone for a while.
Not really caring where he went Naruto wandered to the woods for several minutes before finding a fallen tree that he sat on. Looking down at the scroll in his hands, several thoughts went through his head, some of hate and some of understanding.
He turned the scroll in his hand until he came upon the seal, it was a blood seal, set to only open to his blood. Mentally thanking Jiraiya for teaching him some about seals he opened the scroll and saw that there was a message to him and a storage seal at the bottom of the message, with the kanji for scroll in the seal.
Leaving the seal for later he read what his father wrote 14 years ago.
Naruto,
If you are reading this then know that I am proud of you. Sarutobi obviously thought that you must be ready to know of who are. You are Namikaze Uzumaki Naruto, son of Uzumaki Kushina and Namikaze Minato, Yondaime Hokage.
I am writing this knowing that I will never have a chance to see you grow, to become strong, to live your life.
I am so sorry for sealing the Kyuubi into you, however it had to be done, there is a great evil coming and you will need its power to stand against it, that and I could only trust you to do this. No one else, I believe could do it besides my own flesh and blood.
I believe that the Kyuubi was being controlled when it attacked Konoha. The only things capable of doing this would be the Shodaime Hokages Mokuton abilities, or that of Sharingan.
Mokuton being gone, I think we both know that leaves the Sharingan.
I left instructions for Jiraiya and Sarutobi to look into this so they may know more at the moment.
Ask Jiraiya to take you the toads for Sage training, with it I believe that you can break the control on the Kyuubi and also gain the power you will need to stand against what will come.
In the seal at the bottom of the letter is a scroll holding my entire library of seals and jutsu, bar the Hiraishin jutsu, that's with Sarutobi, he will give it to you when you are ready.
I'm sorry that I will never be there to hold you, to watch …………………
The rest was a blurred mess, like it had rained, or someone had cried over the still wet ink
Grow Strong my son
Namikaze Minato
Yondaime Hokage
Wiping tears from his eyes he reread the letter to reaffirm what was written before letting a large smile adorn his face.
'My parents loved me. My father trusted me to hold back a demon lord before I was even one.'
Similar thoughts ran through his mind, leaving him happy and content with the revelation of who he was and who his parents were.
He then unsealed the scroll at the bottom revealing a large scroll, about the size of the one Jiraiya always had, filled with hundreds, if not thousands of seals, each containing a scroll or book on any number of things, from jutsu to seals, to maps and histories.
Smiling he unsealed a few of the more interesting scrolls to look over before heading back to camp.
(Timeskip)
It was several hours after he had left the camp that Jiraiya saw Naruto wandered back in looking both proud and emotionally tired from what he had read.
The surprise came when he came up to him and asked to take him to Mt. Myobokuzan to train with the toads and learn the sage arts.
Naruto then explained that it was his father's wish that he learn the sage arts.
Smiling, Jiraiya said that they would go there in the morning.
(Timeskip)
The next couple of months Naruto and Jiraiya moved over land towards the home of the toads.
Along the way they went through the books and scrolls left to Naruto and worked on his sealing skills.
Jiraiya also started Naruto on learning his elemental affinities, finding him to have a strong affinity for wind chakra with secondary affinities for water and earth chakra as well.
It wasn't long before Naruto had mastered his wind affinity and working on his other affinities. At the same time he started trying to combine wind chakra and the Rasengan to make a technique even his father couldn't.
When they were only about three days from the toads home, Naruto was able to combine the chakras to make an attack he named the Rasenshuriken because of the blade like extensions of wind chakra on it. He didn't test it seeing as how an occasional wisp of wind chakra kept escaping, cutting his arm. This told him it was unstable and would only hurt him if he used it near him.
Resolving to work on it some more they continued on towards the toad's home. (AN: He can use the regular Rasengan with only one hand now, still needs clones for the Rasenshuriken)
(Timeskip)
The time spent on Mt. Myobokuzan was well spent in Naruto's mind.
He had learned how to use sage chakra easily, almost too easily in some cases. He had done in a few weeks what few could in years.
He had also learned many things from the books and scrolls left by his father. He was now a seal master, better even than Jiraiya, to the man's chagrin.
When he had asked Jiraiya where he was in terms of power, he was told either High Jounin to almost Sannin level, that is without sage chakra or Kyuubi power.
Naruto had also broken the control on Kyuubi during his time there as well. He had had a headache for a few days from all the ranting the fox had done when it found out what had happened to it but once it had calmed down he was an okay person for a giant fox stuck in his stomach.
The fox had, after learning of the boy's life and the events leading up to it, promised to help him as well as he could seeing as it had been his fault and his demon honor not allowing him to just ignore it.
With the fox's help, he could use up to five tails of demon chakra before falling into madness.
He had also, following Jiraiya's advice, learned to use a sword and spear since kunai couldn't always cut (not literally) it in any situation.
After mastering the sage arts Naruto had changed his outfit as well. He wanted to be seen as the ninja he was, not some kid.
He now wore a clothing set that was like Kakashi's only with a red sage cloak with black flames at the bottom of it, like his fathers, without the mask and slanted hitai-ite (AN: You do NOT want to know how long it took me to find out how to spell that. Closest to what I wanted him to wear. If you don't like the outfit then don't read, he wants to be seen as a real ninja and wants to look like one in this fic so deal with it.)
(The cloak is what you asked for so there you go)
His hair was a little longer but not by much and he wore a ninjato on his back with the hilt with the handle peaking up above his right shoulder, the sheath and handle being black but having a orange fox with nine tails on the sheath. He wore a kunai pouch on his right leg with a shuriken pouch on his belt. Several scrolls and other tools stuck into the pouches on his flak jacket.
He knew that he had taken the look from Kakashi but hey, if it made him look more professional and badass, who cares.
Happy with his new look he now felt and looked like he was a ninja instead of the kid he was before.
After learning all he could from the toads he and Jiraiya set out from Mt. Myobokuzan to travel the world and get some experience to complement his training.
The first place they went off to was Suna where Naruto had learned that his friend Gaara had become the Kazekage.
They made great time to the desert arriving just before Naruto turned 15, meaning they could celebrate his birthday with friend(s). He wasn't quite sure if Temari and Kankuro counted but hey, the more the merrier.
Little did he know that he was walking away from one destiny towards another, not even of this world.
End Chapter
Next time Naruto meets the Avatar group and a run in with the sand benders.
So how was it? Took me a while to get this down, was trying to think of what I wanted him to be like and how it would fit into the story. This was supposed to be a kind of short, somewhat detailed, summary of Naruto's training trip so that I don't have to do so later. It's short since I don't want to write three chapters or 10000 words on just his training trip when this is supposed to be a Naruto/Avatar X-over story.
Next chapter should be out by at least Tuesday, that or later today, depends if inspiration hits me or not.
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