The Sign of the Foxes
The next day has come. The sun shines brightly, over the Uzumaki clan. Naruto's eye's slowly open from the sunlight. He as been sleeping on a tree branch all night since he doesn't have a place to sleep. He sits up and cracks his neck releasing the tension and stretches his arms.
"A new day" Naruto said to himself and jumps down, landing on his two feet.
He starts walking straight without a clue of where he should go. "Hmm, now what Am I supposed to do...I have no clue where to start searching for my mother" He thought to himself. He slides his hands into his pockets and felt the scroll. "Oh ya...forgot about this stupid thing" He thought and pulls it out. He's able to get a better look at the scroll then the first time. He notices scroll is coloured in Red with golden scales design on it.
"Wow, so this contains the powerful jutsu" Naruto said to himself and slowly opens it but is pushed forward accidentally by kids playing with a soccer passing by him.
The scroll slips out of his hands and starts rolling away from him down the slanted ground.
"Oh no no, Wait!" Naruto said to the scroll and starts running for it.
The scroll continues to roll away from Naruto, catching more speed. Naruto tries to pick up his pace but the scroll keeps getting further away from him.
"Dammit" Naruto mutters in anger.
The scroll soon hit a rock, launching it way up in the air. Naruto looks up at the scroll seeing it make a flip. He decides to jump for it but bumps into someone.
"waahhh..." Naruto said falling with the person.
"Hmph.."
Naruto lifts himself up and looks at the person he took down. His eyes widen seeing that he knocked over a woman with long red hair.
"Oh, Sorry..here" Naruto said giving his hand to her.
The woman sat up and grabs his hand. Naruto pulls her up and notice how beautiful she is.
"That hurt, you know" she tells him letting go of his hand.
"Hehe sorry about that.." Naruto said scratching the back of his head with his eyes looking at where the scroll went. "Damn it"
"Well I need to know the name of the person who bumped into me" she said a little frustrated.
"oh..I'm Menma" Naruto said giving his fake name.
"Nice to meet you Menma, I'm Kushina" she tells him showing her smile.
"Ya, you too and sorry for bumping into you..but need to go now..bye" Naruto said waving to her and starts running to where the scroll went.
"What got him in such a hurry" Kushina said to herself crossing her arms.
"Honey.." said a voice behind her causing her to turn around.
"Hm?..oh, you took long enough" Kushina said placing her hand on her waist.
"Sorry for the wait" the man with yellow hair said to her kindly.
"hmph.." Kushina said with an anger expression but soon turn into a happy one. "Well come on Minato, we can't keep my brother waiting"
Minato nods giving her a warm smile holding grocery bags in each hand. The two began to walk.
OOO
Naruto lands on the roof of where the scroll went. He starts searching for the scroll around the roof. But couldn't find anything.
"Where is that damn scroll" Naruto said to himself in frustration.
Naruto rub the back of his head trying to figure out where could the scroll be. His thoughts are interrupted when he notices the colour of the roof becoming darker. Naruto looks up and sees grey clouds appearing in the sky.
"Rain?.." Naruto said to himself and felt the wind getting stronger.
"A storm is coming" Shadow said sitting on the edge of the roof.
"A storm?" Naruto turns to him.
"Hmhm…" Shadow replies with his body turning to a nearby mountain.
Naruto didn't show it but is surprise seeing Shadow just appear. However, he's dealing with something now.
"Hey, do you know where the scroll went?" Naruto ask Shadow hoping for the answer.
"You lost the scroll" Shadow said in shock.
"Ya..ha,ha" Naruto said chuckling nervously.
"Hmm" Shadow said turning his head.
Naruto has a confused expression and sees Shadow point his finger at the entrance of the village. Naruto stares at the entrance and soon sees a dark fog appearing. Naruto eyes widen seeing the dark fog taking shape. The fog materialized into three dark foxes with sharp fangs and red eyes. The foxes howl so loud that the whole village hears them. The howl cause vibrations and sending off energy throughout the village.
The howling soon stop and the foxes look straight and growls. They begin to run into the village and splits up. The foxes were heading in the same direction but taking different routes.
Naruto hears screams and growls. He clenches his hands into fist.
"Shadow…" Naruto said turning his head where Shadow was but not anymore.
"Naruto, you must be careful…. knowing you, you probably plan to stop those dark foxes" Shadow said walking next to him.
"Ya!...did you hear the screams.."Naruto exclaims to him.
"You're not up for the foxes yet" Shadow tells him.
"What do you mean!?" Naruto said confused.
Naruto eyes widen a bit after Shadow point his index finger at Naruto's stomach. Naruto looks down.
"You won't be able to fight against those until you control the fox inside you" Shadow states in a serious tone.
"How did you know about…." Naruto stop what he was saying after feeling a pulse in his body.
It is coming from his stomach. He places his hand over it and thinks about the nine tails living in him. As well as how his father remade the seal but he did warn him it's getting weaker.
"And how would I do that?" Naruto ask Shadow.
Before Shadow can answer a loud explosion happen. Naruto looks at the direction the explosion occurs and sees fire. His eyes widen after hearing screams and his legs starts running.
Naruto couldn't help but run to the danger that lies ahead of him. He stops at the edge of the roof and looks back. When he does, Shadow isn't there. Naruto turns his head to the fire and jumps from the roof and lands on another. He does it again until he is close to the fire.
He lands on the ground and sees many people running away in the opposite direction he is staring at. His eyes glow from the bright fire in front of him. He squints his eyes noticing a pair of dark red eyes staring at him through the fire.
One of the foxes came out of the fire growling at Naruto, clenching its teeth. Naruto shivers, feeling the fox's chakra but that didn't stop him from drawing his Kunai from his pocket. He glares at the fox.
"I'm not going to let you or your friends attack this village" Naruto said in a serious tone.
The fox didn't like Naruto's glare and clench its teeth. The fox dash right at Naruto who is prepared for the fox's attack.
The fox swung his right claw and Naruto blocks it with his Kunai but it went through and is soon met with bite on his right arm.
"Grugh" Naruto said in pain and swings his left arm at the fox's head to let go of his arm.
It works but the fox left a bite mark on his right arm. It's bleeding and Naruto grabs his wounded arm. He clenches his teeth and stares at fox that is coming at him again.
He slowly does a hand sign.
"Shadow clone…" Naruto said but can't finish the sentence after looking deeply into the foxes red eyes.
He starts to breath heavily and shake under its gaze. He couldn't say anything and feels trap in place. He knew the longer he waits, the closer the fox is but couldn't break free whatever he is feeling right now until it is too late.
The fox reaches him, raising its right claw high up, that is glowing with chakra energy. Naruto's heart starts beating quickly. "Is this the end..." He thought to himself.
Naruto eyes widen after seeing a strike of fire pierce the fox, pushing it to his right. Naruto blinks a few times and can move again.
"Are you alright?" Yuzu said behind Naruto.
"Y-ya I'm fine" Naruto said breathing heavily with his hands on his knees, bending forward a bit.
"You don't look fine" Yuzu said and took a better look of the guy. "Oh, it's you Menma"
Naruto realizes who the voice belongs to and turns his head to Yuzu.
"Yuzu" Naruto replies.
The two heads turn to the sound of growling. The fox got up showing of its sharp teeth. He starts to charge to them.
Without hesitation, Yuzu goes in front of Naruto and creates hand signs. He stretches his right hand out to his side and a sword of fire appears. Yuzu swings it like a bat at the fox's head, smashing it into a wall.
"Woah" Naruto said shock seeing how fast Yuzu did that.
"Don't think it's safe yet, its not done" Yuzu states, glaring at the fox that came out of the wall and shakes its head.
The fox howls causing shock waves. It slams its claws onto the ground, causing strikes of darkness energy to come out of the ground heading right at Naruto and Yuzu.
Naruto is about to make a hand sign to counter that attack but feels something grab him by the stomach.
"Wait what?" Naruto said looking down at his stomach and sees wind circling around him.
He feels the wind constricting him. He's surprised seeing how the wind pulls him away from the attack except Yuzu. Who stands his ground. Naruto notice Yuzu mouth move.
"Synchronization" Yuzu said to himself.
Suddenly a golden mark appears on top of his right hand, shape like a diamond with strips going horizontally. The right side of his hair change colour from red to black but only the front half.
Yuzu swings his sword releasing a wave of wind mix with fire at the darkness causing a big explosion. Smoke covers the area but not for long. A burst of wind came from Yuzu, blowing away the smoke.
His eyes narrow at the fox that is charging at him. His fire sword disappears. He creates hand signs. Once he finishes a wall of wind surrounds him shielding him from the claws that the fox has thrown at him.
The fox can't get in and is pushed back. It growls and tries again but fails.
"Are you done" Yuzu said to the fox who growls in response.
Yuzu's hair cover his eyes. The wind disappears. The fox flinch after seeing Yuzu's piercing eyes.
"Its scared" Naruto thought looking at the fight. He's amaze seeing how strong Yuzu is, being able to use two types of chakra nature is hard. There is apart of Naruto that feels useless not being able to do anything. "There's two more, maybe I can stop them" Naruto thought and turns around but is met with a woman with long black hair and black eyes.
"Hello" She said kindly.
"Uh hello" Naruto said confuse why she is here along with how calm she looks. "It's not safe here, you should go to safety"
"Thanks for your concern but I'm fine where I am" She said with a small nod.
Naruto tilts his head in confusion. "Hey wait a minute, her hair" Naruto thought noticing a the left side of her hair is reddish but not all just the front. His looks back at Yuzu who is doing hand signs.
"My turn then.." Yuzu said in a deep tone and finish his signs.
Suddenly, a burst of wind appears next to him from the sky creating a tornado. Yuzu places his hands on the two tornadoes next to him. Soon fire covers both. The light from his flames shine over the village.
Naruto is amaze seeing so much power. He feels so much chakra flowing in the air. Suddenly two streams of fire came out of the tornados, stretching in two different directions. Naruto is confused to why and looks at Yuzu wondering what's he planning.
Howls is heard causing Naruto to turn his head to the sound. His eyes widen after seeing the two foxes being pulled by the fire from the tornados.
"So that's what he did" Naruto said understanding what Yuzu did.
"He may act dumb at times but he's clever" the woman said next to him.
"Uh? You know Yuzu?" Naruto ask her.
"Yup, he's my husband" She answer with a smile causing Naruto to turn his head to Yuzu with a shocked expression.
The two foxes slam into the ground in front of the fox already on the ground. Yuzu smirk and both tornados disappear.
"What?..why did he do that?" Naruto said confused of Yuzu's action.
"Because…." She said sighing then smiles. "That's who he is"
"Come on!" Yuzu shouts at the three foxes with his fist clench.
The three fox's growls at him and starts charging at him. Yuzu stares at them with a smirk and charges as well. He pulls his right arm back and punches the middle fox with fire bursting from his fist consuming the fox. He jumps in the air dodging the other two foxes.
The two foxes look up and howls creating a roar of darkness heading right for Yuzu who just smiles. He pulls something out of his pocket which is a Cross necklace with a sapphire stone in the middle. He clenches it in his hand and a burst of wind came from it, materializing into a solid silver sword with Aqua colour lines in the middle of it. He swings the sword like it is nothing, releasing a big wave of wind that slashes through the roar. Yuzu disappears right after.
Naruto eyes widen seeing him disappear but looks at the foxes seeing Yuzu appear right in front of them.
The sword covers in flames and slices through the foxes cutting them in half.
The cloudy sky begins to clear up. Yuzu smiles seeing the foxes no more. He lowers his sword that turns back to a cross. His physical features return with his hair turning back to red and the mark on his hand disappears.
Naruto sees this and looks at Yuzu's wife and notice her hair completely black. "Uh?" Naruto thought confuse on what just happen.
"Thanks for coming, Stella" Yuzu spoke turning to the woman next to Naruto.
"Well, I knew you would want to fight them yourself. I just came for support" Stella said with a grin.
"Also, thanks for moving Menma to safely as well" Yuzu said walking to them.
"Uh? .when?" Naruto ask confused.
"I used the wind to pull you from the attack earlier" Stella answers him.
"Oh, that was you..I thought it was Yuzu" Naruto said surprised.
"I don't have the wind chakra nature" Yuzu said simply.
"Wait what?...but you just used it!?" Naruto said shock and confused.
"There is an explanation for that but…" Yuzu said but stops after seeing the bite mark on his arm. "I think we need to check that up first"
"Oh.." Naruto said looking at his arm, already forgotten that was there but he doesn't feel pain any more. "No its alright, its just a scratch"
Naruto said with a grin knowing that the nine tails healed his wound. Both Yuzu and Stella didn't believe him. Naruto felt nervous having them stare at him until a voice distracted them.
"Stella!...Brother!" Kushina shouts waving her hands at them.
"Oh, is that you Kushina" Stella said to her.
"Yup! The one and only you know" Kushina said with a grin.
"If you're here that must mean…" Yuzu said but stops after spotting the yellow haired man that shocks Naruto.
"...Minato is right behind"