Rokubi : Family Bonds.
Chapter 3 :Confrontations & Revelations.
Shizune ran quickly through the dark streets of the city, after seeing the blond ninja who was looking for Tsunade use one of Orochimaru's techniques Shizune had slipped quietly out of the bar. She was now nearing the bar where she knew Tsunade would be.
Finally she reached the bar, after bursting through the bar doors she quickly spotted Tsunade sitting in a booth at the far end of the room.
"Tsunade-sama!" Shizune called as she neared the table.
"Tsunade-sama, we have a problem…" Shizune stopped speaking as she noticed two others sitting opposite Tsunade. The one nearest to her was a young boy with spiky blond hair held up with a Konoha forehead protector and wearing, in her opinion, way too much orange.
The man sat next to the boy was more recognizable thanks to his long spiky white hair held back by a forehead protector with the kanji for 'Oil'.
"J-Jiraiya-sama?!" Shizune realized.
Judging by the look on their face's Shizune concluded that the conversation they had been having had not been going well. Shizune noticed a deck of cards between Jiraiya and Tsunade.
"I-I'm sorry for interrupting your…"
"No need to apologize Shizune…" Tsunade interrupted her assistant, "…we were just finishing here anyway… the answer is no Jiraiya…" Tsunade said as she threw down her hand of cards and looked at Jiraiya.
"People continue to throw their lives away for the village, I don't intend to become one of them… the fourth Hokage was a prime example of this, sure he had an enormous amount of talent and natural ability and was the best ninja in over a century, but all that didn't stop him from dieing young…" Tsunade said as she took a sip from her Sake bottle.
"…he threw his life away all for the sake of the village, … money is one thing but a life is another, to risk your life against all the odds is a sucker's bet! My grandfather his successor and Sarutobi, they were also willing to die to defend the village, now they're dead and the village is no safer than it ever was! I've lost three loved one's to that village and they dare ask me for anything, let alone become the fifth Hokage?" Tsunade said as she slammed her Sake bottle back down of the table.
Shizune was a little shocked at what she had just found out, Tsunade was being offered the position of Fifth Hokage.
"Being Hokage… only a fool would agree to it"
Suddenly without warning, the boy dressed in orange leaped out of his seat across the table at Tsunade. Jiraiya was fast enough to grab his jumpsuit and hold him back.
"Let me go! I'm gonna knock the crap out of her!" the boy in orange yelled at the old man holding him back.
"Naruto calm down, you're causing a scene" Jiraiya said while trying to calm Naruto down.
"I don't care! I'm not gonna let her sit there and make fun of the old man and insult the Hokages! I don't care who she is I'll knock that sneer off her face!!!" Naruto yelled as he struggled against Jiraiya's grip.
Tsunade's face split into a grin, she quickly stood up and got right in Naruto's face.
"Are you challenging me? You've got guts if nothing else, let's take this outside kid!" Tsunade said right into Naruto's face.
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Ron had left the bar a while ago, he hardly got a short distance from the bar before he noticed something was following him, he turned around to come face to face with a pig wearing a red vest and a pearl necklace. The pig proceeded to grab Ron's pants leg and pull him in a certain direction, reluctantly Ron started to follow the pig. After a few minutes of following a pig Ron came to a stop.
"Ok, where are you taking me?" Ron asked the little pig as if expecting it to answer.
Before the pig could even attempt to answer Ron noticed something up ahead, the doors to a bar burst open and four people walked out.
Two of themROn recognized as his traveling companions Jiraiya and Naruto, there was a woman with black hair wearing a black outfit. Lastly there was a woman with long blond hair pulled into two ponytails and wearing a grey vest with black rimming. Upon closer observation Ron noticed a blue diamond shape on her forehead above her brown eyes.
Ron realized that this was the woman they were looking for, Tsunade the slug sannin. The one person who may be able to help Sheila.
Judging by their stances, Ron realized that there was some sort of fight about to start between Naruto and Tsunade.
Deciding to get a better viewpoint Ron quickly leaned down and picked up the pig who had led him the who he was looking for. After picking up the pig, Ron jumped up the rooftop of a building and took a seat on a ledge overlooking the fight.
Tsunade lifted up one finger at Naruto.
"One of the legendary Sannin taking on a snotty nosed Genin, I ought to be ashamed of myself… One finger… one finger is all I need to beat the likes of you" Tsunade said with a smirk.
Naruto however was now looking at the ground shaking with rage.
"Don't… DON'T EVER UNDERESTIMATE ME!" Naruto shouted in rage as he charged at Tsunade while drawing a Kunai from his side pouch.
Just as Naruto reached Tsunade she ducked down and looped her finger through the handle of the Kunai in Naruto's hand. Tsunade pulled the Kunai from Naruto's grip and performed an upwards slash with it, the slash knocked the forehead protector from his head and high into the air. Naruto recovered from the strike just in time to see Tsunade place her hand near his head and then flick his forehead.
The effect was immediate, Naruto flew ten meters backwards before slamming into the ground.
Up on the rooftop Ron had to cover his own mouth to stop himself from laughing and giving himself away. Tsunade had just finger flicked Naruto away as if he was no more than a bothersome fly.
At the same time Ron realized what Tsunade had done, she had gathered Chakra at one point in her finger and then released it all at once, it requires precise chakra control to do it. Ron himself could perform the technique but only in his whole fist, never an individual finger.
In the time that Ron had analyzed Tsunade's technique. Some words had been exchanged between Tsunade and Naruto. Tsunade had been distracted by something that Naruto had said. Ron watched as Naruto cupped his hands together and formed a Rasengan as he charged towards Tsunade.
Ron leaned forwards in anticipation, Naruto was trying to use the Rasengan for the first time.
As Naruto neared Tsunade she finally noticed what he was doing, her face bore some recognition of the technique Naruto was using, acting quickly she used one finger and struck the ground, suddenly the ground where Tsunade had thrusted her finger had literally split apart and formed a fissure running along the street.
Naruto slipped into the fissure causing his Rasengan to strike the ground causing a small explosion of dirt and a small spiral shaped crater at Tsunade's feet.
"Jiraiya, are you the one who taught him the Rasengan?" Tsunade asked.
"Yes, after all I am his teacher after all" Jiraiya answered.
"Oh really? Are you acting like a teacher by teaching him something he can't master?" Tsunade asked with a smirk. "Don't give him any ideas, that's why this kid likes to daydream that he's going to become Hokage one day!"
"It's not a daydream!!!" Naruto yelled as he stood up out of the fissure. "I swear, I can't master this technique in three days!"
Tsunade smirked as she saw an opportunity.
"Well then let's make a bet, if you can master the Rasengan in one week then I'll acknowledge that you can become Hokage and I'll even give you this necklace" Tsunade said as she pointed to a crystal hanging from her neck.
Shizune and Jiraiya both looked shocked at Tsunade's proposal.
Ron looked at the necklace and knew why both the girl with black hair and Jiraiya were shocked. Ron recognized that necklace, she saw it in a history book, it belonged to the first Hokage, if sold it could buy three mountains.
Ron saw Naruto nod his head in agreement to the bet after Jiraiya told him what the necklace was worth.
"But if you fail to master the technique, then you stop bothering me about becoming Hokage, because I don't intend to follow the same fate as that fool Sarutobi!"
Ron eyes widened, he suddenly felt a rage boil up inside him and before he knew what he was doing he had pushed himself from the roof and was falling into the street.
Ron landed between Naruto and Tsunade startling everyone in the street.
"You, don't you dare insult Sarutobi-sensei!" Ron shouted at a startled Tsunade.
'How long has he been here? I didn't even feel his presence!' Tsunade thought to herself.
Tsunade tried to get a better look at the boy who had fallen from the rooftops but his face was partially hidden in the shadows of the buildings.
Shizune recognized the boy's clothes immediately, she had been so preoccupied with the arrival of Jiraiya that she had completely forgotten about this boy who had been looking for Tsunade.
"…and why shouldn't I insult the old fool? After all only a fool would give his life for no reason whatsoever" Tsunade shot back at Ron.
In his rage Ron shot towards Tsunade while a the same time reaching for the sword on his back. Ron grabbed the Raikiri from his back and in one fluid motion flicked the bandage from the blade section. Ron continued towards Tsunade and swung the blade at her.
Tsunade saw it coming and quickly raised her fingers into the path on the swing.
Ron was shocked, Tsunade had caught his sword in-between her index and middle finger. Ron struggled to push the blade harder against her. Ron shifted his head and looked directly into her eyes, when he did so, Ron only barely registered Tsunade's gasp when she saw his face.
Tsunade was curiously looking at the sword the kid was using when he had looked her straight in her eyes and she fully saw his face and let out a startled gasp.
After a moment Tsunade's face changed from shocked to angry, with one flick of her hand the sword was pulled from Ron's hand and flew across te street before slamming into a street cart and with a quick backhand Ron flew from Tsunade and landed a few meters away.
After Ron had landed roughly on the ground Tsunade turned to Jiraiya.
"So this is your attempt to get me to come back and become the Hokage, you bring two look-alikes to convince me?" Tsunade asked in anger.
"You bring one kid who looked like my dead little brother…" Tsunade said as she motioned towards Naruto.
"… and another who looks like my dead lover carrying around a replica of my Grandfather's sword!" Tsunade said as she motioned towards Ron.
Shizune was not surprised Tsunade had noticed, back in the bar Shizune was a little shocked herself, this boy struck a large resemblance to her uncle and Tsunade's deceased lover, Dan.
Ron didn't quite understand what Tsunade was on about, apparently he looked like somebody she used to know, but he was not here to convince her to be Hokage.
"NO!" Ron shouted to gain Tsunade's attention.
"I came here to look for you for my own reasons… I don't give a crap whether or not you become the Hokage, in fact I think it's too soon to replace Sarutobi-sensei… I came here because during the attack on Konoha, somebody precious to me was hurt, and I was told that you are the only one who may be able to help her" Ron explained as he pulled the Raikiri from the street cart.
"Oh, and this is no replica, this is my sword, Raikiri!" Ron said as he swung the blade out in front of him.
Tsunade took a closer look at the sword and her eyes widened,
"You fool, I don't know how you got your hands on that sword but there is no way in hell you can handle that sword's power, you probably don't even know about the sword's true form!"
Ron looked at the sword in his hand curiously as he remembered Hiashi Hyuga's words on the day he had given the sword to Ron.
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"This room…" Hiashi started, "…Depicts the three legendary weapons of Konoha, many years ago a three man team created three weapons of great power, within the three weapons were sealed the souls of elemental spirits… each of the weapons have the capability to unseal into their true forms"
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"The sword's true form…" Ron muttered to himself as an idea formed in his head.
"Ok then I'll prove it to you that I can handle the sword, I'll lean how to use the Raikiri's full power in a week, if I succeed then you agree to help my friend!" Ron shouted to Tsunade.
A sneer formed of Tsunade's face, she knew that there was no way this kid could wield Raikiri's true form, it can only be used by someone of the First Hokage's bloodline like herself. But despite this Tsunade decided to humor the kid.
"Ok I'll tell you what… if you can lay even one finger on me, then I'll accept this wager of yours, but when you fail you hand Raikiri over to me!" Tsunade said.
Ron smiled as he stabbed the Raikiri into the ground, took off his white coat and laid it on the ground and started cracking his knuckles.
"Just one finger? No problem!" Ron said as he charged towards Tsunade while drawing a Kunai from his side pouch.
Tsunade smirked at Ron's attempt, he was making the same mistake Naruto had made, charging in without thinking.
As soon as Ron was close enough Tsunade used one finger to slap his hand towards the ground to make Ron's kunai lodge into the ground. As she did this she noticed Ron smiling.
"Gotcha!" Ron said as he dropped the Kunai while he was falling down and formed the hand that Tsunade had hit into a fist. As Ron's fist struck the ground it immediately cracked under the force of the blow. The entire ground beneath Tsunade seemed to crater. Tsunade jumped back a few meters to avoid falling into the new hole in the ground that had been caused by Ron's punch.
Both Tsunade and Shizune were shocked, he had used one of Tsunade's techniques.
'Just who the hell is this kid?' Tsunade thought to herself.
Ron quickly recovered from the attack and launched himself at Tsunade again with a straight punch.
Tsunade was ready this time, she quickly sidestepped the attack and grabbed Ron's arm, Tsunade quickly spun around dragging Ron along with her and with her incredible strength threw Ron high up into the air away from where they were.
Jiraiya and Shizune's eyes were widened when they saw this.
Ron remembered how much he hated flying as he flew through the air away from Tsunade. Ron looked around quickly for anything to grab hold of, he saw a large telephone pole extending from the rooftop of a nearby building.
"Sensei Jashu!" Ron yelled as he pointed his arm at the pole.
Tsunade's eyes widened again as she saw something happen, a single long snake extended from Ron's sleeve and quickly whipped around the telephone pole,
'First my techniques and now Orochimaru's! Who is this kid!!!' Tsunade asked herself again.
Ron used the snake to swing around the telephone pole once before retracting the snake in order to whip himself back at Tsunade.
Ron flew through the air again, this time directly at Tsunade.
Once again Tsunade was ready for him, Tsunade grabbed Ron's black shirt as he reached her, using the shirt as leverage she spun around and slammed Ron into the ground causing the shirt to rip straight off in her hands.
Ron's body skipped a few times across the ground before coming to a halt. Ron slowly struggled to his feet as Tsunade chuckled and she tossed aside the remains on Ron's black shirt.
"It this all you've got? Not very impressive for somebody who…" Tsunade's voice trailed off as she saw something.
Without Ron's shirt Tsunade had a direct path of sight at Ron's stomach where she saw a seal consisting of six lightning bolts pointing inwards at each other surrounded by Japanese Kanji.
"No… it can't be!" Tsunade muttered to herself as memories resurfaced and her entire body froze.
Tsunade was snapped out of her memories when she noticed something, Ron had dashed at her, attempted to punch her, but his fist had stopped just a few inches away from her face.
"If that punch had connected, it would have ripped your head off…" Ron said as he opened his fist and touched her forehead with one finger, "…consider yourself lucky I need you alive to help Sheila" with that said Ron turned around and walked back to his sword. He had won the first stage of the bet, he had laid a finger on her.
Tsunade stood perfectly still, he body still frozen from seeing the seal on Ron's stomach. Shizune was shocked to see teardrops form of Tsunade's eyes.
Ron slipped his white coat back on and shouldered his sword and looked back at Tsunade.
"One week…" with that said Ron started to walk away.
"Oh, and I think your pig is up on the roof" Ron said without looking back.
Shizune was still looking at Tsunade, she had never seen Tsunade freeze up like that, something must have shocked her to her core.
"Tsunade-sama…" Shizune stopped talking as she saw Tsunade fall to her knees and raise her left hand over her mouth as if she wanted to vomit.
Shizune quickly ran to her master's side in concern for her.
"Jiraiya…" Tsunade started, "… you found him!" Tsunade said through her tears as she looked up at Jiraiya.
Jiraiya didn't look shocked at all at Tsunade's behavior, in fact he seemed to be expecting it.
"I'll tell you everything in the morning Tsunade, when you've had a chance to get over the shock of seeing him" Jiraiya said as he turned around and motioned form Naruto to follow him.
As they walked away they heard Tsunade start to sob into her hands.
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Back at the Inn, Naruto and Jiraiya were up talking about training when Naruto desided to go out on a limb.
"Ero-sennin… why did the old lady act like that? It happened when she saw the markings on Mitarashi-san"
Jiraiya took a deep breath, he had expected this.
"Ok Naruto, I'll tell you but you need to keep this from Ron form now ok?" Jiraiya asked.
Naruto nodded.
"Ok, as you know you have the nine tailed fox Kyubi sealed inside of you… well what you don't know is that there are eight other tailed beasts that exist, each with a different number of tails… thirteen years ago myself and Tsunade fought against one of them, the Rokubi, the six tailed weasel"
Naruto was shocked to hear this, he remained silent so he could hear the rest of the story.
"We fought against it for days but no matter how hard we fought we couldn't kill it… so we did the only thing we could do, we sealed it… we sealed it inside Tsunade, she knew she wouldn't survive the sealing process but she was willing to die to save the innocents that the Rokubi threatened, but after the sealing was completed Tsunade was still alive, we found out why the next day, what we didn't know was that Tsunade was pregnant at the time, so instead of the Rokubi being sealed within Tsunade, it was sealed within her unborn child"
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Flashback Montage
Ron smiled as he walked towards his gate, he felt a small poof of smoke coming from his pouch as the Henge (Transformation) he had placed on his scroll dispelled and it changed from the fake heaven scroll he had disguised it as and changed back to its original form, a black earth scroll. By fooling everyone into thinking he had a heaven scroll, only half of the ninja teams would go after him and the wrong half at that, this way he could hunt for his own heaven scroll without interference, even if a ninja team did catch him (unlikely) then he would show them his earth scroll and they would realize he didn't have the scroll they needed. Nobody even noticed, not even his mother… unknown to him there were two people who had noticed, Kakashi hiding high up and out of sight… and the grass ninja who had passed Anko back her kunai.
'How interesting…do I know him? Looks so familiar'
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Ron landed on a nearby branch and looked across from him, there they were, three rock ninja, how they had gotten this close to him without alerting him was pretty impressive.
Unknown to them there was another person watching them from afar, a grass ninja with long hair, but this was only a disguise, a face stolen from a poor student, his true identity held a little more terror, Orochimaru, one of the three legendary sanin and traitor to Konoha. He watched the action with his yellow eyes, the boy he simply knew as 'Ron' was a very capable ninja, impressive reflexes and obvious intelligence, he kept looking at his face and kept repeating the same thing in his head,
'I recognize him from somewhere, but where?'
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Orochimaru lowly stood up holding half of his face, the face he had stolen was now beyond repairing, it had already been melted by Sasuke's fire jutsu less than an hour ago and now it was ripped by a powerful punch from Ron.
He slowly raised his head and looked at Ron, deja'vu set in again when he saw Ron, his stance, his fists up and breathing heavily, his hair, his eyes… Orochimaru smiled.
"Ah yes… now I know where I've seen you before… I remember that punch…"
Ron was confused at Orochimaru's words, they had never met before yet this ninja seemed to know him.
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Orochimaru smiled as he used a few snakes to wrap around Ron and pulled him closer to himself, he slowly picked up Ron by his hair, Anko saw this and screamed at him,
"NO!!! please… let him go, I'll do anything, just let my son go!!!" Anko pleaded, she had never begged in her life, but she would do anything to protect her son.
Orochimaru smiled at Anko's out-of-character behavior,
"Son eh? Well you can't possibly be your real son… after all the cursed mark I put on you renders you incapable of baring children…" Orochimaru said, but something in his voice told Anko that he knew something that she didn't.
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When Ron got there he noticed a large electronic board hanging at the side of the statues.
Ron continued to look around and see who was left, there was the Rookie nine, team Gai, the three sound ninja, the three sand ninja, two Konoha ninja whom had their faces shrouded and lastly the Yamanuchi team,
'23, plus me, 24 finalists'
On the other side of the hall standing next to the sound ninja team was a pale faced sound Jounin, nobody noticed him smiling as Ron walked into the room,
'So, he survived after all… this is interesting, both Sasuke and Ron survived the mark I placed on them… I still hardly believe that Ron has been in Konoha all these years…"
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Ron felt it, the mark on his shoulder started slowly growing and spreading across his boy, the black markings started seeping down his arm and up onto his neck.
"No…" Ron pleaded.
Kankuro watched in confusion as the black markings started growing on Ron, Kankuro came to a possible conclusion.
'He made it through the forest… but he's been injured, I have to attack NOW"
Kankuro quickly rushed forward ready to strike, but just as he reached his opponent, Ron lashed out. Ron stood up quickly and backhanded Kankuro away sending him flying to the side and smashing into the wall, cutting himself on the back of his hand in the process.
Ron rose his head and everyone saw it, the black lightning shaped marking had spread across his face and down his left arm, his left eye was bright blue with a silt pupil.
Among all who were shocked, the one who had the worst reaction was Orochimaru.
'His eye, that has never happened before, how did…' Orochimaru's eyes widened as he realized something.
'My god, the Rokubi… so that's how she survived, she sealed in in the boy by mistake'
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"I am the white-haired frog tamer… Even a crying baby would stare in awe… at the great JIRAIYA!"
The old man now revealed as Jiraiya finally finished his idiotic introduction and looked around only to see that the blond boy had disappeared.
"Gah, who was that kid?!… he looked kind of familiar"
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Quickly looking to the side, Ron saw Sarutobi-sensei finding off Orochimaru's attacks with a large staff.
The first Hokage looked on at Ron in fascination,
'He looks so familiar… have I met him before?' The First thought to himself, 'No! that's not possible, I died 40 years before this boy was even born… even so, Orochimaru was the one who summoned me, so I must follow his command'
The First Hokage raised his right hand and pointed at Ron, an instant later a large branch of wood grew out of the roof and shot towards him. Ron saw it coming just in time and at the same moment saw an opening in the First's defense. Ron jumped up high enough for the wooden branch to shoot underneath him and smash into the ground, Ron landed on the branch and started running along its length drawing his sword at the same time. Ron reached the First and before he could react, Ron shot past him and lashed out with the sword.
Ron landed a few meters behind the First and next to him landed the First's arm. Ron turned around with a smile but was shocked at what he saw, the First's arm was regenerating, it seemed that a strange kind of dust was forming around his stump and recreating the arm,
"Oh come on! that's not fair!" Ron pleaded
After the arm was back to normal the First noticed the sword in Ron's hand.
'The Raikiri… if he has Raikiri then that means… I see, that's where I recognize him from, it is a shame I must kill him'
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Both Jiraiya and Kakashi looked through the barrier in horror, Ron had been completely taken over by the cursed mark and was now flying towards the first Hokage with huge amount of lightning element chakra in his palm. Jiraiya looked at the boy and recognized him as the boy he had met a few weeks ago at the waterfall. Back then Jiraiya had recognized him from somewhere but could not place it at the time, but now he realized who Ron was when he saw the seal on Ron's stomach.
"Its him, the Rokubi container!"
End Flashback.
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"A few days after the child was born he was kidnapped by Akatsuki, we've been looking for him ever since, imagine my surprise when I discovered Ron was actually in Konoha for the last eight years, he was right under our noses the whole time"
Naruto's mind was spinning with information.
"Ero-sennin… you mean that Ron is…"
Jiraiya nodded.
"Tsunade is Ron's mother"
To Be Continued…
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At last, all is revealed.
How did you not see this coming? I left at least a dozen hints in the first story!!!
Something that suprised me was that nobody ever wondered WHY the Rokubi is in Ron. everyone just accepted that it was in him.
This was the twist i was mentioning during the first story.
oh well, please read and review and tell me what you think of the storyline and this new revelation.