Naruto Onitenshi Ch 3
A New Partner
"Let's go Naruto" Amiko yells from the entrance to the compound.
Naruto is slowly making his way to her, holding a egg carrying bag carefully to his chest, looking around nervously always worried that it will break on him. It has been one month since he got the egg, and he has been paranoid the whole time that it is going to crack somehow. Amiko has debated telling him the the egg is a lot stronger than it looks, having been designed to survive a baby's first year, but... she kinda been worried that while it might be baby proof it might not be Naruto proof, so she let him worry.
"Where are we going, Ami?" Naruto asks again using the new nickname he gave her.
"For the last time it's a surprise. Now I going to quiz you on the way so be ready" she answers, as they start walking through the village, Kura decides to take a nap on Amiko's head.
"Aww come on do we have to." He complains.
"You need to know this stuff, all clansmen do. Just be happy I am teaching you orally instead of having you read a ton of scrolls like I had to." She gives him the deal with it look. "Okay, first question, how many divisions are in the clan?"
" Oh um I know there are like five, right?" He answers.
"Correct and what are they?"
"ok well um there are the fighting birds, the archive birds, the sciencey birds, the um um inbell birds, and um um ..." he gets a confused look on his face.
"It's the intelligence or Intel birds and the last one is the stealth and operations division." She explains.
"I thought that was the fighting division, cause you said it was like the ninja division." He gives her look of but you said.
She sighs "there is more to being a ninja then just fighting. Ok next question what are the five main species of birds we use and the division they run?"
"Ok um there are Hawks that run the fighting division, then um the kea birds are the ones running the science place thingy, then oh the owls run the archive, like Yuki-kun, oh sparrow run something... it's um oh the intelligence thing and then Crows do the last one, um the stealth and oppy thingy." Naruto answers and hugs his egg closer.
"Close the archive is run by barn owls, the snowy owls are a side species not the main one. And why might that be?" She asks.
"Um ... well maybe because it's not snowy here. Wait we are going to the Hokage monument?" He asks looking up at the mountain.
"Nope our destination is past that. And now you are starting to think like an Onitenshi, that right the leaf village isn't the best location for them, so it's not the main species we use." They start to climb up the mountain.
"Well why don't we use the same birds for everything?" He asks her, adjusting his egg so he can walk up the stairs.
"Well most of our birds can do multiple jobs but some birds are just better than others at certain jobs, so we use the best species for each job. Like the owls are great hunters and fighters but the Hawks are a bit better, but when it comes to maintaining the archives no one can beat them." She tells him.
"I can't wait to find out what my bird will be like, I wonder if it will be a boy or a girl." Naruto says, opening the flap on his egg bag and rubbing it a few times.
"It's going to be a boy." His sister states clearly.
"Really how do you know?" He asks her in wonder.
"Because your a boy, our partner birds are created from the energy we give them, did you every wonder why Kura is the same color as my hair." She tells him.
"Oh yeah I guess that makes sense, so my bird is going to be blonde." Naruto states with a smile.
"Well I am not to sure what your bird will look like, since you aren't sharing life force just chakra." they get to the top and start heading into the woods beyond the monument. There are several buildings in the forested area. "Ok, so this whole area belongs to our family but it been abandoned for awhile, well basically since October tenth four year ago."
"Hey that's my birthday." Naruto says surprised.
"Hm odd but not impossible, only my clan died but many were injured, I wouldn't be surprised if your mother went into labor because of the fox. Anyway we need to get these buildings back up and running, they went under because they are restricted to kinsei and their tori-rin only." Amiko explains to him.
"What's a tori-rin?" Naruto asks, covering his egg again.
"Kura and that little egglet of yours, tori-rin means bird companion." She tells him and they start moving into the woods. They are about a mile in and about to enter one of the buildings when the bag Naruto is carrying starts to shake.
"Um Ami what's going on?" Naruto asks nervously.
"I don't know, your egg way to young to hatch. It hasn't been five weeks yet, and it should take 48 weeks. We need to head back now." Amiko answers, Kura who woke up to the commotion is now flying above them. They turn to start running out of the forest when a huge bird of fire lands in front of them.
The bird is very beautiful, flames of gold and flecks of orange. It has a dignified appearance and gorgeous feathers. "I am sorry to stop you but we have little time, it is hard even for me to mask my existence this close to a village for a very long time." The large bird or Phoenix with many tails sings out.
Naruto holding his shaking egg closer to him ducks behind his sister for protection while he checks his egg. "Who are you and what do you want?" Amiko demands.
"Forgive me normally I would never have appeared to you, unless you were alone, but I have waited a few years for a member of your clan to appear alone outside of the village and it never happened till today. So we you were leaving so soon I decided to make an exception since it is a jinchurriki your with. My name is Toriko, the ten tailed Phoenix."the giant bird sings her answer.
"What did you call Naruto and what do want form me?" She asks, Naruto now stands up and next to his sister, hiding the egg safely behind him.
"A jinchurriki, he has the nine tails sealed inside of him." this shocks both siblings. "Anyway to the point as there it not much time, I need you young child to become my jinchurriki, you see I am not the true ten tails but the key to it revival. I have hidden myself for generations in members of your clan, but four years ago my previous jinchurriki died when I reformed I could not find another member of your family to seal myself inside of. Now we must do this quickly before the world discovers my existence." The Phoenix, Toriko, insists.
"This is why the village hates me. I have the fox In me, the fox that killed our family, your family Amiko." Naruto looks scared and sad and terrified all at once some how.
"Our family, and some dumb fox doesn't change that, and you, you want me to what, how?" Amiko asks.
"Become a jinchurriki like your brother and I will do it." Toriko gives Naruto an odd look when she said brother.
"What no if she becomes like me then people will hate her too. you can't." Naruto yells.
"If people find out, yes, but I don't plan for that to ever happen. Please, it is to protect the world and the other jinchurriki. We must hurry." Toriko insists.
"I don't have a choice do I." The large bird shakes it's head no. "Ok ... to protect my brother."
"Ami no." Naruto pleads.
"It's ok I will be ok." She reassures him.
"I will explain the rest to you later, now turn around." Amiko follows her command. When she does the Phoenix places it's claw on Amiko's back between her shoulder blades. There is a great bright light and the Phoenix disappears. Left in its place is a seal on the girls back where the Phoenix touched her. The seal is in a circular pattern with the kanji for the numbers 1 - 8 going around the outside and 9 in the middle.
"Why would you?" Naruto says lightly.
"To protect you, I would do anything." She smiles at him.
All of a sudden they hear a small chirp from next to them, they look down to see a little wet blue, aquamarine, and white fluff ball of a chick staring at them from the bag Naruto had set down. Amiko goes wide eyed in shock, but Naruto leans down and picks up the small bird and lifts it gently into the air.
"YES you hatched, I have my first bird, I got my first bird." Naruto starts dancing for joy.
"But what, how ... I.. what.. ok what ever we will figure all this out when we get back, now what are you going to name him?" Ami asks coming out of her shock.
"Hehe I'm going to call you ichiru." He says hugging the little hatchling to him.
Amiko sighs "let's head back we have a lot of stuff to look up."
"Like what?" Naruto gives her a confused look.
"First what really happened four years ago on October tenth, what are jinchurriki's, who are your parents and what really happened to them, and why the hell did your egg hatch so soon?"