MUGETSU
Chapter Two: Scarlet Flower
Author Note-
On to chapter two featuring the first member of Naruto's harem. You'll know her when you see her, trust me on that. failing that you should recognise the name, she has been the one keeping him sane for the last seven years. She is also responsible for Naruto not going on a rampage and actually being willing to hear his family out first.
I would also like to note that I have messed with the Naruto timeline. In this version team 7 have NOT yet gone on the mission to snow country or Yuki No Kuni.
Now to the Q and A section.
Ddcj1990- They can and indeed will work hard for his forgiveness.
Koroby- I would like to clarify Naruto did NOT come back to save Konoha, he came back, or out as it were, to kill Kyuubi as he hated him more than he hates Konoha.
Dbzsotrum9- I do not deny that Kyuubi can and indeed was wrongfully imprisoned and controlled but no Naruto could not make friends with that Kyuubi as it tried to devour his soul, he was more than a little pissed about that.
Bankai777- Yes he does indeed hate Konoha, enough to destroy the village? Not quite, he will however not hesitate to kill anyone who attacks him or gets in his way.
Granite69- Sorry they will eventually be forgiven, the redemption tag was there for a reason. But it will take a long time and won't happen quickly.
King-konoha- If I put Kushina in the harem then I would have to find some way to get rid of Minato so no she is not, at least not at the moment.
OrcaDM – He will kill more than a few people I will tell you that much.
Jaki Stratos- No the Shodaime's necklace is not related to Aizen's 'Hax Rock' as you call it, how Naruto lives in there and how he survived Kyuubi trying to devour him comes in later.
Vail Ryuketsu- Sorry using Mugetsu bounced Naruto's power back to square one, don't worry to much though he will be kicking ass in no time.
GodShadowEX: Sorry no Sharingan or Mangkyou Sharingan for Naruto in this story, how ever for some of the thing's you want to read about may I recommend Soul by Vexus Titan.
Lightningblade49: Your right it did take a lot of energy for Naruto to get out the first time, after that it gets easier. Also both Kyuubi and Naruto were fighting nowhere near full strength, they were both incapable of doing so at the time.
Mystolon: Don't worry to much I will admit that this story will involve sappy forgiveness, but it will be hard earned sappy forgiveness. Oh also your more or less right about him being a living chakra construct.
Malakish: Yeah that was a plot hole, fixed it up this chapter.
Mystic 6 tailed Naruto: Naruto personally doesn't really care about his family, oh he is pissed as all hell at them. But someone, who is introduced this chapter, asked him to at least try to forgive them. Considering this person is his best friend and the only human contact he's had for the past seven years as well as some of the only positive human contact he ever had, Naruto agreed to try.
Sorry if this chapter isn't really up to par but it's just setting the stage for the first story arc.
Story Start-
Naruto sighed, leaning back on a large tree. Now this, this was the life, he knew he had made a good choice influencing the fox to make that bet for the old hag's necklace. Originally he had just thought that with the self replenishing chakra of the Shodaime inside he would be able to graft his conciousness and skills to the gem. Coming out every now and then for an amusement, after the necklace was safely away from the fox of course.
Never in his wildest dreams had he imagined that the mind scape or what ever it was inside the gem would resemble a giant forest. Beautiful lakes, streams and giant tree's, after watching the Chunin exams through the foxes eyes. Naruto realised the mind scape was an exact replica of the forest of death, minus the deadly animals. Still that made for a great place to relax, he grimaced, that little stunt with Mugestu was going to set him back. He would need at least three days before he could pull anyone into the mind scape and a week before he could manifest outside, if he wanted to fight someone that was. He could still manifest himself outside of the gem just not with any combat capability's, that annoyed him.
He heard a crunch from behind him and smiled. "Well how are you today?" He asked not turning around he knew her well enough. After all she was the only reason he was still sane, he would have gone over the edge a long time ago if not for her. He heard her giggle, a magical sound. Exactly like birds singing, he loved it.
"So tell me, did you manage to get outside?" She asked playfully, Naruto smirked and nodded, not bothering to turn around.
"You were right you know, my 'family', were the ones that came back to execute me." The word family was dripping with sarcasm. He could feel her wince at his tone and felt remorse, he knew she wanted him to give them a second chance and his attitude would only be a deterrent to that.
"I'm sorry." She said softly, Naruto was off his tree branch so fast it seemed like he had teleported, wrapping her in a hug.
"Don't you say that, you've done nothing to apologise for." Naruto pulled back and looked at the girl. She was beautiful, long red hair, brown eyes and cream coloured skin without a single blemish. "Now I can keep my promise to you." Naruto added smiling, the woman smiled back, before giving him a light hit to the head.
"Yep, don't forget I'm in Yuki No Kuni, so hurry up and save me already." She said pouting before her body began to fade. "I look forward to seeing you for the first time in person, Naruto." She didn't use his last name.
"And I you, Scarlet Erza." Ezra faded and he was left alone, Naruto shrugged and returned to his tree branch wondering when his friend would visit again. Before deciding he could use a little amusement and opened his mind, allowing him to hear voices out side of his home/prison.
He was slightly annoyed when he heard Erza's voice again. "Whatever you say, Mr. Fullbringer." Naruto sighed, he hated it when she got the last word in.
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Namikaze-Uzumaki Kushina was almost paralysed with fear, her son was alive, in a way, and he was pissed. Not that he didn't have a right to be, but still she was scared. Naruto, her Naruto, had every right to reject her and never want anything to do with her or her family and she couldn't fault him for it if he did. Kushina had been heart broken when she was told that the seal on her son had partially failed and his mind would be taken over by the fox. She had broken down and cried even falling into depression for over a year. When Minato and she had checked the seal they had found that the Sandaime was right, the seal had partially failed.
Who ever constructed it had linked the part of the seal that held the fox back to the containers will rather than the containers mental state. No baby could hold back the will of a biju, or so they believed, and so she thought her son was lost. She just couldn't live in Konoha after that, it simply caused Minato and her too much pain.
That was the reason her family and she left Konoha, taking Naruto's sister Kasumi with them. They simply couldn't take living near what they believed to be a mockery of her child. Hiruzen had talked them out of killing him saying that even broken the seal would still need fourteen years to completely integrate the Kyuubi and Naruto's souls. If what they believed to be a monster in her son's body were killed before that time the Kyuubi would be free again and reform in four years.
The old former Hokage had convinced Minato and her to at least let her child's sacrifice mean something, if the monster inside her child's body were killed at fourteen then it would take one hundred years to reform. They had agreed, albeit reluctantly, before leaving Konoha and now? Now she found that she could have her child back. She could have the baby she thought she lost back, and there was a very good chance he hated her.
What could she say to him when they finally spoke. 'Naruto I'm sorry for leaving you, I'm sorry for not being there for you, for leaving you in a village who wanted nothing more than for you to die a painful death. But if you would give me the chance I would like to finally be your mother.' Yeah she was sure that would go over well, he would probably put his katana through her if she said that. She wasn't wrong.
Kushina sighed and looked out over the Namikaze estate and Konoha, a giant gash from Naruto's attack still easily visible. That was it all this waiting was doing her head in. Kushina needed to get out of the village for a little while, not long, but a little while. The red headed Namikaze matriarch stalked into the homes armoury, it was by no means a large affair, but more than adequate to the family's needs. She pulled out her old ANBU armour and strapped it on, succuring her ninjato over her right shoulder. Kushina took a deep breath and walked back to her bedroom, picking up the necklace that Naruto disappeared into and placing it around her neck.
Kushina wasn't sure if Naruto was actually inside the necklace or not, but she did suspect that he was. That raised another question that she wanted answered, what was her son now? His body was dead and yet he was still alive, was he a chakra construct like the biju? Or was he something else all together? Kushina pushed the thought from her mind, regardless he was her son, the child she had abandoned, Kuhsina's heart clenched at that thought. She shook the thought off, she needed to be focused for this, but her thoughts kept going back to her child.
"Naruto, I'm sorry." Kushina murmured almost silently silently before using a shunshin to go to Tsunade's office. Not knowing Naruto had heard her little confession, he was still angry at his family beyond all belief. But maybe Erza's idea of giving them a second chance was worth more than he thought, the woman did seem to be genuinely resourceful for her actions. Either way if the woman wanted forgiveness she would have to earn it, he was not the type to give out second chances after all.
Kushina appeared in Tsunade's office just as the Hokage was about to give an extended mission out to the new team seven. Consisting of Kakashi, Sakura, Sai and her daughter Kasumi, from within the gem Naruto took his first look at his twin. She was easy on the eyes, he would give her that. An hour glass like figure, long legs, perky C cup breast's, he slapped himself why the hell was he checking out his own sister? Kasumi had black ninja sandals on her feet, metal leg guards until just below her knee. A short red skirt with tight shorts on underneath them, an orange belt holing four sealing scrolls sat securely around her hips. Red shirt with a black shoulder guard on her left arm and a ninjato over her right shoulder. Red hair in a tight pony tail, violet eyes and a rounded face.
"Uh, what are you doing here Kaa-san." Kasumi asked cocking her head to the side in a confused manner. Kushina smiled at her daughter's actions.
"Well musume I've been getting a little stir crazy recently so I thought I might take some mission's to unwind." Kushina answered a small smile still gracing her face.
Tusnade looked through her mission documents. "Well I have got a few things that would get you out of the village." She admitted, before sighing and rubbing her forehead. "But there's not much, you've got a bandit camp elimination, an escort mission to Nami No Kuni or you can help you daughter's team." Tusnade finished lamely.
Kasumi shook her head empathetically. "Oh no she is not coming no way no how, I want to prove I can stand on my own." The fiery red head stated, making a crossing motion with her arms, Tsunade chuckled.
"Well then Kushina guess your going to have to take a different mission then." The red head nodded looking amused at her daughter's antics.
"I'll take the escort mission, but out of interest what mission are you doing musume?" Kushina asked smiling at her child, Kasumi's face lit up with a small fan girl grin, Naruto cursed his luck from within the gem.
"Were going to escort the actress Yukie Fujikaze to Yuki No Kuni, great huh! We start in two weeks!" Kasumi shouted, Naruto was only half listening until he heard the words Yuki No Kuni. That was it he had to get the gem and by extension himself on that mission, consequences be damned. Naruto exerted his power outside of the gem forcing the Reiryoku to take shape. Then hardening it to form a body, his body it would set him back a few more day's of rest but he needed not wanted but NEEDED to be on that mission.
The six people looked on in fascination as a blue aura gathered around the gem. Kushina looked down as it began shining, at first it was just a small glow but it slowly grew larger and larger until it was shining like the sun. His body began forming, Naruto noticed he had different clothes now. Not that it surprised him the entire outfit he had worn when fighting against Kyuubi had all been part of his Bankai. Naruto cracked his neck from side to side before looking down at his new outfit, black sneakers and pants, white shirt with orange trim and a black vest, he could work with this. Naruto stretched ignoring the looks from the others and turning to Tsunade. "Old hag I want in on that mission to Yuki."
Needless to say Tsunade was not happy about Naruto's blatant disrespect. "Watch your mouth brat." The sannin growled out, surely it wouldn't kill him to show a little respect.
"And why should I?" Naruto asked, his voice laced with contempt. "Thanks to you and those who could be called my 'family' I was condemned to seven years of hell. Following that I almost had my soul devoured by Kyuubi and it all could have been avoided if my so called family was there for me." Naruto pointedly ignored the look of shame on the sannin's face as well as the tears on Kushina's and Kasumi's. "But enough of that I will be on this mission to Yuki old hag, one way or the other."
Sakura was the first to regain her voice. "WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE TALKING TO TSUNADE-SAMA LIKE THAT?" The pink howler monkey yelled, sounding something akin to a banshee's wail, Naruto didn't bother responding. Instead merely walking to Sakura and picking her up by the throat. Tightening his grip so that the Haruno was having her air cut off.
"Who do I think I am?" Naruto asked amusement clear in his tone, before tightening his grip further. Causing Sakura's legs to flail around uselessly in a vain attempt to kick him. "I think I am the man that has the power to destroy this village at any time he chooses, remember that before you speak to your better's girl." Naruto drew his arm back and threw her at a wall, luckily for Sakura Kakashi caught her before she impacted. The copy ninja was watching Naruto wearily, this was not the Kyuubi that much he accepted, but he sure as hell was not friendly either. Naruto turned to face the copy ninja. "Hatake I suggest you keep your pet on a leash, before I choose to put it out of my misery."
The people in the room flinched at the cold and impersonal tone Naruto used. "Now then back to business, old hag I need you to assign Namikaze-Uzumaki Kushina to the Yuki mission. Since she holds my gem I need her to go." Tsunade smiled, it seemed like she finally had some leverage over the wild card.
"And why should I send her, after all Kushina is a valuable ninja and I could use her elsewhere. So prey tell why should I do as you wish." Tsunade said smirking, an action Naruto mirrored before snapping his fingers. Kushina screamed in pain and fell to the floor panting. Naruto fixed Tsunade with a glare, if looks could kill the slug sannin would be ash.
"I wasn't asking you to place her on the Yuki mission I was giving you an order. If you fail to comply." Naruto snapped his fingers again and Kushina cried out in pain. Kasumi ran over to her mother and hugged her.
"Please stop this Onii-san!" Naruto let up on the pain he was giving to the red headed Namikaze.
"As I said if you fail to comply I will crush her mind and turn her into my thrall. Then use her as transportation to get to Yuki and I can promise you if I do that it is irreversible." The occupants in the room looked at him in horror, Naruto shrugged. He couldn't actually do that of course, the best he could do was give her a really bad migraine and then aggravate it, like he had just done. But he was willing to bet they didn't know that.
Tsunade sighed, this was bad she really thought she had some leverage over him. "Fine, but why do you want to go to Yuki." Naruto smiled, victory was his!
"To help a friend." Naruto walked back to Kushina who was still panting and touched the necklace.
"You are not at all how I thought you would be Naruto." Tsunade said sounding sad. "I honestly thought that the mask Kyuubi put up when I first met your body was what ever was left of your personality." Naruto gave a brief and cold laugh.
"Of course I'm different, after all the Uzumaki Naruto you knew. Never existed to begin with." Naruto disappeared in a swirl of blue light retreating into the necklace, leaving behind a very shaken and somewhat saddened room.
Two Weeks Later.
From within the gem Naruto could feel the ship pass into the lands of Yuki No Kuni and smiled.
In the capital city of Yuki No Kuni in a hidden lab deep beneath the earth, lay a young woman. Pale and unhealthy white skin, the result of being inside almost her whole life. Limp red hair and dirty from lack of attention. The girl was hooked up to a multitude of medical equipment inside a medically induced coma, that she was removed from once a week for some exercise. She normally would have been used as a breeding factory by now, but the scientists didn't want to risk her, at least not yet.
Erza's breathing quickened and her eyes opened showing them to be brown and full of life. She smiled at the ceiling a warm feeling suffusing her chest like molten gold. For the first time outside of the mind scape she felt happy, warm and safe. Before uttering the three words she had wanted to say for almost seven years. "He's finally here."
MUGETSU Chapter Two- End
And CUT that is all for chapter two folks. On a side not I keep kind of flicking between stories so there is now a poll up on my profile. You get ONE vote and it will determine the order I work on my stories so please do vote. See you all next time.
