They stretched on forever, the stars. At my back, the shinobi world. In front of me Nyarlathotep and a robed man with sharinrenigan eyes. We stood upon the head of the red dragon. It was my vessel to travel the multiverse.
The dragon was a massive creature, it was crafted from the red sand of my island. Its body was massive, 12 wings kept it aloft above the planet it orbited. At this moment, the chescker board and the two men sat upon thrones placed upon the dragon's head.
"An interesting puppet you created from your island, I approve. Though, I would have made it into something a bit more ostentatious." The older man sitting at the table coughed.
"Oh, excuse me Yusuke. This charming hermit, is my new friend. Hagaromo Otsutsuki the creator of ninshu, I believe you called it." I stared in incomprehension. "It's really ninjutsu now." Nyarlathotep whispered.
"Just because the primitives took my gift and turned it into a blasphemous effigy of everything I stand for. That doesn't mean I can't admire what my sons have done with it." His bitterness was well over my limit.
"Ok you created ninshu the precursor to ninjutsu, why are you here on my dragon." I looked down to see a checker board between them. "Are you two playing checkers?" I said.
"Backgammon actually, he was losing, so he destroyed out cards." Nyarlathotep said.
"You were cheating." He said.
"You are the god of shinobi and your opposed to cheating. There, years of religious teaching, gone down the drain." The man snorted.
"It matters little, I asked this abomination to bring you here. There is a task you must complete for me, that is if you don't want your citizenship in this universe revoked." The old man smiled jovially at me. The amount of astral energy and chakra this man possessed was staggering. At this moment, I couldn't take him.
"Tell me what you would have me do and I will think about it. I'm not high up there on the power scale. I doubt anything you would have me do couldn't be accomplished by yourself." I said.
Nyarlathotep started to laugh. It was an eerie thing the laugh of an outer god. "Ah and there is where your wrong. Our friend here is the administrator of this universe. If he drops his guard for any reason. Something terrible may happen. Like a certain three beings finding this little universe early."
"Enough abomination, I only ask of you to destroy the creatures under the mansion. Their power is too great for the world to handle, right now. If they were to get free no one, not even you could stop them." I frowned.
"They are locked up rather tight by a menagerie of sealing arts. I can't get in and they can't get out." The old man smiled a bit.
"If you weren't so busy playing the sneaky route you would have already been inside that door. What are you waiting on your mother's approval. She isn't your mother she is Yusuke's isn't that right Dracul." I looked at him strangely.
Nyarlathotep continued to laugh. "He has you there, this puppet of yours is practically a body. With this much astral energy in it, even mortals may catch a glimpse of it. Besides Yusuke is so bland. Dracul though that has some power to it." What kind of dragon is named dragon? It makes no sense.
"I will think about the name." I turned back and got up out of my seat. The chair vanished. "How long before they break free from the basement?"
The old man deliberated. "They must be destroyed in no more time than six months. They grow in power slowly but linearly. Every day you wait is another they grow." The old man was sweating. There was no way this was going to be simple.
"I will take care of it then." I looked over to Nyarlathotep. He smiled though he had no face. No eyes were there to show emotion. It was the taste of his psionic aura that conveyed emotion. He snapped his fingers and everything went black.
I opened my eyes. I heard wood pop in the fireplace. Getting up, I warmed my hands and tried shake the dream. It wasn't slipping from my mind.
The door opened and my mother walked in. I listened as she grabbed something from the fridge. She walked in eating a bowl of cold ramen.
She sat across from me. "You graduated. I apologize, a team came in wounded, just before I could leave. As the head surgeon and chief of staff, it was out of my hands. Delegation to a lesser medic is unethical." She ate in silence. I continued to read over the book on fuinjutsu.
"That book, I bought that when I was your age. I dreamed of becoming a fuinjutsu mistress." I looked up and let out a breath.
"Why did you give up on it?" I prompted.
"I couldn't do both. Medical jutsu and fuinjutsu are both extremely complicated fields. If I had tried to do both, I would have ended up mediocre in two fields, instead of exceptional in one." She said.
"Shadow clones seem to be the ultimate cheat in that regard. All I have to do, to branch out into new fields, is delegation." She nodded.
"Interestingly, I never learned the jutsu. I have the chakra pool for it. It was never on my agenda. There are a few books here in the library with the jutsu written on it. The Hokage likes to believe the scroll of forbidden seals has the only copy. Well let's just say what he doesn't know fills books." She said.
"I am slowly making my way through all of them. You collected a lot of information." I said.
"Mostly hypothesis and theories. The hand signs and chakra natures required for most jutsu are in here. Making tests and getting replicable results are night and day. Don't train too hard." She said.
"My sister what did you do to her after my accident?" I asked.
She stopped and looked me in the eye.
"Once you were securely in the coma ward, I took her out for ramen. She became my heir and I treated her as such. I was going to wait and let you have a few days to relax. I'm kicking you out. I want you gone in a month's time. Your access to my library and all the family finances are at an end. I will not have the two of you fight over my corpse when I'm gone." She said.
"I assume I have the whole month to continue using the library." She nodded.
"As a final farewell, I will allow you to make whatever use of the library you can in a month." She said.
I attempted to enter her mind. Something was there to block me. My psionic energy lost its cohesion when it touched her. She brushed away a lock of her blond hair. A seal was there plain as day.
It was a simple one rune seal. When my energy approached it like wind to a mountain it made no notice of me. My power broke and I couldn't touch her.
She got up and walked from the room. "I will go to bed early tonight my son. If you have any questions please wait until morning."
I was frustrated when she left. Nothing I did could touch that rune. It was a primitive form of fuinjutsu and an effective one. I took out a piece of paper and traced the rune.
The rune itself looked like a five-pointed star. A circle wrapped around its points. The simplicity of it irritated me. The seal took in my psionic energy and removed my control from it.
If someone drew this seal on me, it would strip me of my power. I would be limited to chakra and astral energy. The simplest of psionic abilities would allude me.
Slowly, I rose from my stupor. There was another problem I had yet to address. The creature's in the basement. One of my clones took over my book on fuinjutsu. It was 14 he would take care of learning the boring art.
I made my way outside.
With my telekinesis, I lifted the cherry tree from the pond. It was charred but not decrepit. Placing it on the ground, I sat upon it.
Brooding wasn't my strong suit. I had brooded for over a century but it wasn't my favorite activity. My true passion was in discovery.
A smile crept over my lips. That bitch had revealed the rune on purpose. She knew about my powers. Perhaps this was a test of hers.
I picked up a good-sized boulder. To my enhanced strength it weighed nothing. Perhaps the rock weighed a good 250kilos.
Using some ink and a brush I painted on the rock the pentagram rune. I placed a hand on the rock when I was done. My knees buckled when my rise left me.
Yanking my hand back, I started to hyperventilate. This rune made me weak, practically mortal. With this they could legitimately bind me in some way. The rune ignored my telekinesis and it irritated me.
"Foolishness, do you really think such a tool will beat me." I yelled out. Using a barbaric form of telekinesis, I wrapped the rock in a bubble. The idea was to treat the rune like a dam. If enough water hits a dam lock then it will break. It was all about finding the right amount of pressure.
When the bubble formed, I forced in vast amounts of psi. The bubble kept the energy inside, while the stone forced the power away. Something had to give.
The bubble popped and the psi shot out. The symbol on the rock glowed purple then cooled. Other than that, there was no damage to the rock.
"No matter how the wind may howl the mountain will not bow." 15 said. I turned to my clone. He shrugged. "It makes since. The mountain is the symbol. You're just shouting at the rock." I nodded.
Had I been just shouting. Well if shouting did work, then let's try something different. I made the bubble again.
This time, I filled the bubble to the point of bursting, then the energy began to spin.
I watched as the psi spun until it was a hurricane. Unfortunately, the eye of the storm was the boulder. Moving the bubble caused the eye to shift. The energy unbalanced and the bubble exploded. I replaced myself with a log.
Walking back to the point of impact, I saw the boulder untouched. The field of destruction was immense. Destruction spiraled around the boulder. The broken body of 15 lay there. His guts fell from the top half of his body. I received the memories of my own psi turning on me.
The seal was more like a mirror. "Well if my psi can't touch it, I will have to use chakra." I said to no one. My clone was dead and leaking blood everywhere.
After burying my clone, I formed the bubble around the boulder for a third time. This time, I fed fire chakra into the bubble and began to spin it within the hurricane of psi. The fire chakra naturally condensed in the eye.
This time, I didn't move the eye. I condensed the ball further. The seal didn't vanish even when the condensed heat touched it. Pieces of the boulder cracked and exploded, only to get caught by the psi hurricane. Everything burned except for the seal.
"More," I yelled, as I forced the orb to condense further. My control was tested as the seal began to rebound my psi. The increased frequency of my hurricane kept the rebound from destroying the jutsu.
The rebound was now a minor current flowing into a larger one. The seal cracked, then the last of the stone vanished. The bubble had shrunk to fit in the palm of my hand. The entirety of the boulder and the fire chakra was contained. Slowly the orb shrank more.
I had done it, but what was I to do with the orb in my hand. Carelessness, wouldn't just kill me, it could kill many in the village. It was better to slowly disarm the jutsu.
When I dissipated the fire chakra, the disarming process was underway. Slowly I halted the hurricane winds created from psi. It was easier said than done. Finally, I released the bubble and let the excess drop.
A mass of black stone the size of an apple hit the ground. A crater formed from the impact. The dense ore was solid and round. I picked it up and felt the presence of psi from it.
The signature within the stone matched my own. I opened an isolation field and dropped the stone inside. When the stone arrived at its destination, I felt it merge with the dragon. I didn't want to know what it meant.
I yanked my blood-stained shirt off my back. It was cold tonight. The breeze soothed me.
Just when I whipped the blood from my face, alarms began to blare all over the village. I tossed my shirt in the air and burned it with a flick of my fingers. Fire chakra was already easier to control. The burned blood-stained shirt turned to ash as it floated down to the pond.
I could sense where Naruto was. He was just on the edge of the village. He was working trying to use the shadow clone jutsu. I wished him luck. In less than a month, I was going to be homeless.
Naruto POV
Naruto placed his hands in the cross seal and cast the jutsu. Two perfect clones appeared beside him. A grin threatened to split his cheeks. With a fluctuation of chakra, he dispelled them.
"Naruto, I found you." Iruka said.
"Hey sensei, you finally found me. Do I pass?" Naruto said.
"Naruto what are you talking about." Naruto saw the look on Iruka's face and realized his error. Yusuke was right Mizuke couldn't be trusted.
"Naruto look out." He stood there and watched, a giant shuriken impaled itself in his sensie's back.
"Naruto did you ever wonder why the villages hated you." His attention turned to Mizuki.
"No Mizuki, its forbidden, you can't."
"You are the nine-tailed fox." Mizuki laughed uproariously.
"That will be enough of that." A poof of smoke revealed the 3rd Hokage in all his glory. He no longer wore his robes of office. Hiruzen Sarutobi was dressed in full battle armor.
Mizuki turned just in time to catch a kunai, with his eye. He yelled and clutched at his face. He was struggling to get away from the old man. Hiruzen stepped forward and grabbed the traitor's neck.
Hands that once hugged Naruto, choked the life out of the traitor. Just as Mizuki fell unconscious the Hokage tossed him to the side. "Take him to T&I." Three ambu grabbed the traitor and took him away.
"You did well to bait the traitor Naruto. It is a great pleasure, to finally welcome you into the shinobi corps as a genin." Hiruzen pulled out a head ban and placed it on Naruto's head.
Naruto felt like he was going to faint. This was the best day of his life.
Main POV the next day
Iwoke up from my bed, thankfully this time without a dream from Nyarlathotep. The sun was shining through my window. My head didn't feel fuzzy anymore.
Focusing on a random book, I made it float. There was no pain or even a head ache. In conclusion, my powers were working again.
I thought about what I would do today. Freedom was a scary concept. Half of me wanted to continue training. The other half wanted to try courting Ino or Sakura. If I can swing it right, I might be able to stay with them, when I get kicked out.
Getting up, I walked down the stairs and made my way into the kitchen. Abal was doing the dishes, in a maid's outfit. Normally she wore traditional robes.
My commands I placed on her, changed. She was to teach one of my clones taijutsu. Quickly, I made a shadow clone and handed it off to her. A gleam filled her chocolate eyes.
Checking my wallet, I had some cash. I could afford maybe two dates. Yuhi Kurenai walking towards my home, as I walked outside. "Hello, you passed the genin test and I am here to interview your mother. It doesn't mean you will be a member of my team. You are a candidate. So, don't get your hopes up."
She gave me a wink and I went on my way wearing my best clothes. "Are you going out on a date?" Kurenai asked.
I shrugged. "I may get lucky, so I'm dressing to impress." I said, she waved to me as I left.
The first place to go was the Yamanaka flower shop. I quickly made my way through the alleyways. There was a ban on using the roof tops for cadets. Though, I had just graduated, until I had a sensei, I couldn't use them.
The flower shop stood out among the other buildings. The soft fragrance of flowers filled my nose. I opened the door, to find Ino at the front desk. "Good morning. Are you going on a date?" I smiled and walked up to her wearing the only winning smile I had.
"No Ino we are going on a date. Perhaps to the movies or to one of the sushi restaurants up town. What do you say?" She smiled.
"No," then she stuck her tongue out at me.
I grinned. "You say that but do you really want to hang out here all day?" I said.
"You mean, we could go see a movie as friends. Only you're buying." Ino said.
"Oh, miss Yamanaka you don't know me at all, if you think I will fall for that." I paused for a moment to let the latest shadow clone's memories merge with my own.
"If we are to be friends, then you must pay your own way." I said.
She nodded. "If that is so, then what is to stop me from saying yes and dumping you the next day." She was grinning now. The game was too fun for her.
"Why that is a risk, I must take. Do we have an accord?" I said.
"Nope, maybe if you were Sasuke. Just plain old Yusuke no way." She chuckled. "Don't worry, we can still hang out. Meet you at the movies at eight. I can pay my own way, friend of mine." I tightened my jacket closer to my shoulders, as I walked out.
"Sounds fun, I'm going to go flirt with Sakura. See you at eight." She waved as I left.
I found Sakura, just as Sasuke passed her by. She had a distraught look on her face. When she turned to me, I felt like an outsider.
"Am I annoying." She asked.
"You're a woman." I said.
Tears welled up in her eyes.
"That doesn't mean you aren't fun to be around." I slapped my hand on her butt cheek. "You don't seem so annoying to me, right now." I said then sighed.
"Dry your tears, I'm going to take you out on a date." I wrapped her hand in mine and dragged her out of the alley.
The place we went to wasn't much. It was a sushi stand. I wanted to take her someplace better but she wanted the sushi from here.
"What's so special about this place." I asked her.
"This place has the tastiest sushi in konoha, for a bargain." She slammed some ryo on the counter. "A special for each of us and keep it coming." The chief placed two plates filled with food in front of us. Sakura immediately began to shovel pieces into her mouth. The chop sticks were a blur.
"Do you come here often?" I asked
"Yea, well I used to, before my diet. I guess, I'm not going to bother with dieting anymore." I raised an eyebrow.
She raised a pink one back.
"I'm done with that jerk Sasuke. I'm eating sushi with a guy and it's not bad. I asked that jerk a thousand times to come here with me. You know what he said?" I remained silent. It was annoying but women were annoying.
Still she waited for my input. "What did he say, Sakura?" I said, finally.
"He said, 'no, I have to train.' Can you believe that, the jerk? I am much more interesting than training. Don't you think?" I raised an eyebrow and she blushed.
"Sorry, I forgot I'm annoying. I will just go." She moved to get up and I placed a hand on her shoulder.
"I told you, you're a woman. Annoyance is the be expected. If Sasuke doesn't want to deal with it then he should make out with Kiba or Naruto." She snorted.
"Well some of use girls have made a few drawings. Do you want to see?" I rolled my eyes but smiled all the same. She was becoming more open, it was nice. I didn't have to use any psi to relax her either.
I finished my food. The chief had a pleased look about his eyes. I scanned his mind. The man had spit in my food. Something about resentment for the youth.
I tossed my chop sticks on the plate. "I don't like that look on your face old man. What did you do to my food?" Sakura looked baffled. Then she turned green.
"I didn't mess with your food, so don't worry." I turned back to the old man. "Why did you do it, old man." The man grasped his beard.
"You have no proof, that I did anything. After all you ate every bite." I looked down. Before I realized something was wrong, I cleaned my plate. If that had been poison, I would be dead.
If I killed this guy ,I could say bye to my shinobi license. He could mysteriously vanish but I would be suspected because of my outcry. If I wasn't mistaken there was a jonin behind me.
"Hey now, there is no reason for violence. What proof do you have that this man spit in your food?" The silver haired man paid us little attention. He read from his book as he asked.
I took a deep breathe. "Besides body language and the pleased look on the man's face nothing." The man nodded.
"Well if you want you can take the claim up with the civilian council. Though as a member of the restaurant guild, he will be given a solicitor, free of charge. While as a fresh genin, you must pay for your own lawyer. All over a simple charge of a restaurant owner spitting in your food." The man said.
"I'm sorry, I didn't know this would happen. Yusuke let's just go. We won't eat here again sir." She smashed a coin on the table. I snatched her hand into mine before she could run away in embarrassment.
I leaned down to her ear. "Let's go see a movie. I'm buying, meet me at the theater at eight. I think your friend Ino will come along too. I'm only paying for your ticket." I said.
She walked down the street. "Maybe I will see you there. You better buy me a large popcorn and drink. I hope you're aware, we are going to go see the cheesiest romance ever." Sakura said, then walked off.
The sushi chef had welcomed another customer. "If you aren't going to leave then perhaps, I can interest you in another special." I thought about giving the old man a good old fashion curse. A look from the jonin shifted that desire.
"Thank you for the advice. Who are you? Are you mine or Sakura's sensei." I asked.
"I could be both or neither, you know." I nodded. "Smooth move asking her out on another date, just when this one crashed. Her teammates could learn a thing or two about persistence. Though I doubt it will matter." He said, then laughed like a creep. I recognized the little orange book. Was it that good.
"Chuckle like a cheesy super villain why don't you. What's your pass rate 0%?" I asked.
"If they pass tomorrow, they will be the first. How did you know about the second exam?" I stared at him. We were both silent for a few minutes.
"That obvious, I'm going to use that to taunt them, when I give the exam tomorrow. My name is Kekashi Hatake by the way. If your little girlfriend and her team manage to pass, I'm sure she will curse my name to you from now on." Kekashi Hatake said, like a true sadist.
He walked away and I went back home. My mother was there, in the library. I ignored her and walked down to the basement. I created a clone and had it jump into the pit.
Clone POV
My existence, my goal was to use my creator's ultimate jutsu and shatter the wall of fuinjutsu. My hand raised and I created the hurricane bubble and filled the eye with fire chakra.
The ball of death still didn't have a name. So, I decided to call it chaos orb. I read about the fourth hokage's rasengan. The jutsu was similar, but the eye in the center gave it enough of a difference to be unique.
Now that I knew what I was doing, it was easier to make the chaos orb. The psi and chakra cost was just under 50% or an eighth of the original's reserves. I condensed my attack, the orb shrunk until it resembled a star.
Five minutes was how long it took to prepare this attack. That much time was an eternity in a fight. It was ready now.
I hesitated, even if it broke through, I was dead. The area affect form this jutsu was brutal. If it was stopped, a blast of heat will reduce me to ash.
This was my purpose, I wouldn't fail in my purpose. When the orb was complete, I hurled it. The shell of psi vanished and the cargo glowed like the sun, then it detonated.
I didn't feel it when my skin bubbled off, nor did I feel it when my eyes melted from my skull. My chakra and my psi returned to the original. It was better this way existence was painful.
Chapter end
How was that like it, hate it?
Was the gate destroyed?
Abal, has new orders. Yusuke's mother is not only aware but has a method to counter his psi. Clearly, she is aware of his abilities. She has chosen to ignore them. Where did she learn to counter them?
Will he find someone to stay with or will he have to live on the street? Who will his jonin sensei be? Find out next chapter.
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