Chapter 3 Vows
Nero woke up peacefully and wished that he could turn in and sleep some more, but his body prevented him from sleeping and his brain told him that he had stuff to do. Nero sighed and decided to take a quick shower to get off the stench from last night's journey. As he made his way to the shower he felt more relaxed then he ever did in Konoha even on the best of days there. As the hot water came onto his body he felt a strange feeling of relief that came from nowhere, as if a large burden had been taken of off his shoulder since he came to this small village. That's when he realized he didn't have to treat his life anymore as a battle to survive.
Everyday was practically a battle to see if had the right to survive the right to live, but that wasn't the case anymore. He was free. Free from having to look over his shoulder and see people look like they were getting ready to attack him, free of all of the glares of pure and absolute hatred that screamed that he should be dead and forgotten. He was free of all the pain, all the sadness. He now had a new chance at life, a fresh start at living.
He wasn't a fool though he knew that there would be more pain as he continued living, whether it be physical or mental pain as he continued living and the path he decided to take would depend on that though. Though he did have some ideas on what he would do after he decided to leave this village and move on but for now he would simply get some more food and some better clothes for traveling later on after he managed to get a job, but first he had to find the local blacksmith.
Nero stepped out of the shower and put is clothes back on and grabbed his bag as he made his way down to the first floor for breakfast. When he got down onto the first floor and saw breakfast his mouth practically drooled at the sight. "Well someone is hungry," a feminine voice said. Nero turned towards the voice and saw that it was the woman from last night. "You're up early, and considering how late you came in last night I thought that you would sleep through the morning and into the afternoon."
Nero sent a small greeting her way and got onto a chair and said, "I always wake up early no matter what time I fall asleep at, it got drilled into my system that I don't need much sleep."
The woman looked at him curiously wondering what reason would be needed for one to wake up so early. She then casted the thought aside and thought that she shouldn't dwell on it since his reasons were his own. "Well then eat up you must have a lot of stuff on your mind, and I hope you enjoy your stay.
Nero nodded and then started eating the food at a somewhat leisure pace. The food it tasted so good, he never had anything like this in Konoha. The reason was simple he couldn't afford it. The people in Konoha did whatever they could do to hurt him in whatever way possible. They made him pay three times as much for old rotten food that was doomed to spoil in less then a week's time. Well Nero was happy about that and the pros of leaving already far outweighed the cons even though he left Konoha last night. A thought then entered his head at the thought that the people of Konoha were probably celebrating his 'death' getting drunk and celebrating as if there was no tomorrow.
But even though he was happy about leaving his heart still ached from what he left behind. A tear went down his cheek as he ate his food knowing that he had caused people to suffer because of his action. He didn't really care about the pain that he had caused to the Hokage, in his eyes he was just as guilty as the villagers for letting them do whatever they wanted to do with him and for lacking the spine to actually back up his claims as the Hokage.
The Anbu that protected him, he didn't know the one n the dog mask that well, but he didn't hurt him and actually protected him against the villagers, the one in the cat and snake mask made him sigh after he took a bite of his food, they were nice and treated him like a sibling would, like Itachi did.
Ichiraku Ramen, they had never treated him badly, never overpriced him on food and were always nice to him. Mikoto Uchiha the closest person that Nero saw as a mother. She was always kind to him, treated him to ramen and was always there for him when he needed help no matter how busy she was.
But the one that caused him the most pain was Satsuki, she was always honest with him and didn't insult him like most of the other kids did. She was the brightest ray of hope in that village of darkness and hatred, she was always so nice to him, so sweet. Yet the best reason of all was he didn't have to prove anything to her. Satsuki had accepted him with open arms and he didn't have to prove that he was worth spending time with or anything of the sort. She was the first person in that village where he didn't have to fight to prove he was worth it. She had accepted him without any conditions or with any strings attached to it.
The bond that he had with her was the strongest and the most precious thing that he had in the world and he would do anything to preserve it and protect her. Nero didn't understand the feelings he had for Satsuki but he knew that they were strong. One day he would return to her in that hell hole and protect her from harm.
Even if it cost him his life.
After he finished eating Nero thanked her and made his way out into the town, and thought, 'I'm going to be here for awhile, though it doesn't really matter I'm in the clear already. If they notice the trap door in the building they will be looking for a blonde haired kid with blue eyes, tanned skin, with whisker marks on his cheeks. I'm a silver haired kid with pale skin and a clear face, I'm definitely safe from getting found.'
Nero eventually found himself at a weapon shop and entered the shop. "Kid what the hell are you doing in here," a rough voice asked. Nero turned to his left and saw a large burly man with brown hair and long beard. Nero turned to the man and looked at him with impassive eyes, and said, "I want to make a custom weapon."
"Why would a kid want a weapon?" he asked with narrowed eyes. Nero looked at him with the same impassive eyes and said, "don't look at me like that I'm a customer, now are you interested or not in making allot of cash."
The man kept looking at Nero and then sighed and said, "fine what do you need."
"I need you to make a custom weapon," Nero then asked for several pieces of paper and a pencil which the man gave him. Nero made a sketch of the gun design that he wanted along with several descriptions of how the inner mechanisms work. The man's eyes widened when he read that and couldn't help, but gape at the kid in front of him coming up with such a weapon. "Kid do you want this made out of normal metal or made out of chakra metal?"
"Chakra metal," Nero said. The man's eyes widened even more and then said, "kid this is going to cost you quite the pretty penny to produce this. Can you even afford this?"
Nero put his hand into his back pack and pulled out a large wad of cash and said, "this enough to pay for it all."
The man nodded his head stupefied by the large wad of cash and the kid all together. "When can I expect it to be done at the earliest."
"Possibly a week at the latest," the man said dumbly. Nero pulled out some more money and said, "if you finish it in less the a week you get more do I make myself clear."
"You make yourself very clear little man, I'll let you know when it's done."
"I'll stop by the end of the week, you have it done by then you'll get extra pay."
"Kid why do you have so much money? No kid like you should have this much money." The smith looked at Nero and when he looked into his eyes they looked like two large blue glaciers. When he first looked at them they looked like the eyes of a warrior or a soldier. They weren't the eyes of a child, that someone his age should have, he should have eyes that showed joy or a happiness and a minor tinge of ignorance to the world. Nero's eyes they told a story of hardship and pain unlike anything he could imagine.
"I would tell you, but then you would pity me and I don't want to be pitied by anyone right now. After all to everyone else my life would make a good horror story, I'm staying at a inn called the Sleeping Lion let me know when it's done."
After Nero said that Nero left the shop without looking back with the intent to train with Kurama in his devil arm from, as Nero left the man couldn't help but wonder what would make a child act like that, and what horrors has he been through. Those cold blue eyes were the eyes of someone who has seen death more then once.
Tanzaku Gai
A woman with blonde hair and wearing a green jacket with the kanji for 'gamble' written in black on the back, inside a red circle, underneath it she wore a grey, kimono-style blouse with no sleeves, held closed by a broad, dark bluish-grey obi that matches her pants. Her blouse is closed quite low, revealing her sizeable cleavage, the last thing was her open-toed sandals with high heels. She was currently in front of a slot machine and placed some money in hope to get the jackpot.
"Come on, come on", said another woman wearing a long black kimono with trimmings, held closed by a white obi, and open-toed sandals with low heels. She was standing next to the machine, hoping the woman playing won't lose as she held two buckets. The next screen landed on another 7. "Come on, come on, one more 7," the woman said with brown hair, wearing black said. Her eyes lit up with hope.
The woman with blonde hair eyes widened a bit. 'Could I really win.' she thought to herself. Suddenly the final screen stopped on a 7. She won!
"YAAAAAAAAAAAAY," screamed the woman in black. "Lady Tsunade you finally won!"
"I...won," the woman now known as Tsunade stuttered. 'That's impossible, I never win!'
Tsunade with wide eyes as she filled the buckets with the money that she had won from the machine, after she filled the bucket with her winnings she tried again for the jackpot on a different machine and won again, and again.
Shizune was so happy her master Tsunade is on a roll, two buckets full of money were on the floor, no matter how many times Tsunade played the game she just kept on winning. 'But how,' Tsunade thought with worry.
"Lady Tsunade you're finally winning," Shizune spoke with happiness. "Finally you might be able pay off your debts"
'This can't be good, I never win especially not this many times in a row,' Tsunade thought as she won again and placed the money into her bucket. 'Something is definitely not right here.' "Shizune we are leaving!" Tsunade ordered.
"But why," Shizune asked. "You're winning, and this place as some great hot springs we could use."
"Don't argue with me damn it!" Tsunade spoke with a tone that meant no arguments, making Shizune wince when she hear the tone of voice her master use. "I simply can't win, it's not possible for me to get this lucky!"
Tsunade picked up the two buckets full of her winnings and walk towards the door mentioning for Shizune to follow.
When the two ladies reached the front door of the casino they saw two men in front of the doors. Tsunade and Kushina recognized both of them. They were Itachi and Kakashi, wearing the standard shinobi outfit. When the two saw them, Kakashi pointed at them and walked over at them with Itachi following him.
"Tsunade, Shizune it has been while hasn't it," Itachi said emotionlessly as he looked at them. Tsunade glared at the two and said, "what the hell do you two want."
Kakashi sent a eye smile her way and said, "now that isn't a proper greeting now is it." After he said that his eye smile quickly faded away and he said, "doesn't matter really, either way the Hokage has ordered you and Jiraiya to return to the Hidden Leaf Village and we are to make sure that you do go back."
Tsunade glared at the two and then dropped the buckets that she held and cracked her knuckles, "why the hell would I return back to the Leaf Village I vowed to never return to that place that has robbed me of everything I loved."
"Because if you don't you and Shizune will be placed as missing nin by order of the Hokage himself," Itachi said.
Shizune who was behind Tsunade gasped as Tsunade's eyes widened and then her face turned into a perfect image to represent rage as she yelled, "you're lying! You got to be I have sannin travel rights, and Sarutobi sensei has let me do as I wished for the last couple of years so why would he start now."
"I assure you Tsunade that we aren't lying and have proof that you are to return to the Leaf Village immediately by any means necessary," Itachi said as he pulled out a letter in a envelope from his pouch and threw it to Tsunade who caught it effortlessly.
After Tsunade grabbed the envelope she opened it up and grabbed the letter in it and saw that it was written in her sensei's hand writing. When she finished reading she could not believe what she was reading, that her own sensei would do this to her.
Itachi and Kakashi were glad that before the ninja left to track down the sannin he gave them each a scroll filled with his threat and his specific orders to return to then Leaf Village, because if he didn't they might've gone into a all out brawl and destroyed several buildings in the process in a attempt to capture Tsunade.
"Why? Would he do this now of all times?"
Kakashi looked at her with a uncaring look in his eye and said, "that is what you will find out when you get there now is it. Now if I were you I would hurry back to the Leaf Village." Shizune then led Tsunade to their rooms to pack their bags, after they left Kakashi grabbed the two buckets filled with chips that Tsunade left behind in her stupor and made his way to the counter. "You are seriously going to do that?" Itachi asked with a raised eyebrow as he looked at his counter.
Kakashi said thank you as he handed over the chips while the woman at the counter looked at them for a moment and then shrugged her shoulders and gave him large sum of cash. When he looked back at Itachi he sent him an eye smile and said, "yes it was. Think about I did a service actually, I mean why let such a large amount of chips which could go for quite the pretty sum of cash be left out for anyone to grab. I'm making sure that it doesn't go to waste."
Itachi shook his head and made his way out of the casino to find Tsunade and Shizune and make sure that they don't try to skip town with Kakashi following while he stuffed some cash into his pouch.
Jiraiya
A tall man with dark green kabuki pants and a kabuki shirt, under it was a fishnet shirt as well. Over shirt, he wore a red sage coat with matching yellow circles in front. He had long spiky gray hair and a noticeable wart on his nose. On his back was a large scroll and on his forehead was a forehead protector with kanji for 'oil' was currently in front of a hot springs not too far from Konoha and was currently peeping on woman for his next book. This was the toad sage Jiraiya. Jiraiya giggled pervertedly as he wrote something down on a small notepad that he had always kept on hand. "Hey ladies there is a pervert spying on you," a familiar voice yelled. Jiraiya's eyes widened and before he could react the door to the springs burst open and about twenty woman all clad in towels turned and glared on him releasing a large amount of killing intent on him. One of the woman stepped forward and yelled, "get him girls!"
After that was said all of the woman charged at him and savagely beaten him to a bloody pulp. After a hour of Jiraiya getting beaten with a maniacal laughter heard in the background Jiraiya was beaten with bruises all over his body with blood pouring out of his body at certain parts, after they left satisfied with their work he then heard a familiar voice say, "see Kurenai I told you we would find the pervert here." Jiraiya got up and looked for the familiar voice and saw Anko who was grinning evilly next to Kurenai. "Yes Anko you were right, I should've expected this to be perfectly honest," Kurenai said as he shook her head in disappointment.
"Ah well what is some of Konoha's lovely kunoichi doing here of all places?" Jiraiya asked with a smile as he looked at the two kunoichi. Anko's grin faded away and was replaced with serious look on her face that scared Jiraiya moorhen when she wasn't, the reason why was because Anko was only serious I the matter called for it, and that was rare. Very Rare.
Kurenai stepped forward and glared at him and said, "by order of the Sandaime Hokage you are to return to the Hokage immediately Jiraiya." Kurenai glared at the man and wanted to beat him to a inch of his life, not only for him spying on woman in the hot springs, but also because of him abandoning his godson when he needed people to watch over him. Kurenai wouldn't admit it openly, but she was questioning the supposed greatness of Konoha's best and wisdom of people like the Hokage and sannin.
"Well you're going to have to tell him to wait a bit because I still-"
"It's not a request Jiraiya it's an order and if you don't return soon you will face the consequences." Kurenai interrupted as she glared at the man. Jiraiya looked at her and asked, "what consequences sensei knows that I can go as I please and I got my spy network to maintain."
"While that would be the case normally it's not anymore , see the Hokage has demanded for your immediate return and if you're not back in a couple of days you will be marked as a S–ranked missing nin," Anko said with a smirk that clearly said 'Victory!'
Jiraiya quickly turned and looked at Anko with wide eyes and pointed at her as he said, "you kidding, you got to be, sensei knows how important my spy network is to Konoha! So you got to be lying!" when he was done saying that he expected her shoulder to slump down and say that she was lying. What he did not expect was for her smirk to grow showing off some of her teeth as she pulled a letter out of her kunai pouch and threw it to Jiraiya and quickly opened it up hoping that it was some kind of prank that they were playing a prank on him.
When he opened it up and saw his sensei's writing he couldn't help but feel slightly afraid ad wondering what has his sensei so riled up. As he read it he couldn't help but gape in disbelief at his sensei's threat. He looked over at the two kunoichi who had looks of victory on their face and said, "what happened…what happened to piss sensei off this much."
Kurenai looked at her and she said, "I'm not saying anything Jiraiya, but we weren't the only ones sent out to find you. Kakashi and Itachi were sent out to find Tsunade and bring her back to the village with the same threat as you."
"Why, why? Please tell me why?"
"We won't tell you why Jiraiya, but I will say this Jiraiya. Its judgment day for you and Tsunade," Kurenai said as she glared at him. After she said that a feeling of foreboding washed over him and he had a feeling that him and Tsunade were going to suffer.
A Few Days Later in Konoha
A couple days have passed since then and both of them were feeling something else on the matter, Jiraiya wondered what could have made his sensei mad enough to call both him and Tsunade mad enough to call them back and go so far as to make them both missing nin if they don't come back by the end of the week. Tsunade was angry and looked somewhat stoic except for the scowl of anger that she had on her face, but on the inside she was resisting the urge to cry. Ever since her return back in to the leaf village Sarutobi had placed several Anbu on watch making sure that she didn't drink any alcohol and had to resist the urge to cry as the memories of her loved ones that she lost kept coming back into her head, she knew that if she returned to the village that their memories would keep coming back to her and bring her nothing but pain.
She was angry at her sensei but she couldn't help but wonder what happened to her sensei, she vowed to never return to Konoha and he understood her reason, he didn't try to stop her at all. Now he was giving her a choice to either come back to the Leaf Village peacefully or be marked down as a missing nin. For her and Shizune's sake she knew that she couldn't afford to be marked down as a missing nin. She had ran into Jiraiya earlier and he didn't have any idea as to why Sarutobi had gone this far, but both of them had a feeling of foreboding, they noticed that the people were happy with only a select view who seemed depressed over something. Shizune tried to get her to get Tsunade to relax earlier, but to no avail with both worry and fear that haunted Tsunade to no end.
Right now the two of them were in front of the door that led to the Hokage's office, both of them looked at the other's eyes and waited for the other to open the door. Jiraiya then sighed and opened the door, having enough of waiting for Tsunade to open the door and decided to just get it over with. When he opened the door he saw their sensei looking at them with a stoic look that also radiated a aura of power that made the two sannin afraid. In front of them was the true God of Shinobi.
"Hello Jirayia,Tsunade its been a long time hasn't it," the Sandaime said coldly. Both of sannin looked at him as if he had grown a second head. Jiraiya was the first to get over the way his sensei was acting said, "sensei its good to see you again, and I'm sure that Tsunade-"
Before he could finish what he was saying Tsunade interupted him by saying, "cut the crap Jirayia and lets get straight to the point sensei, what is this really about."
Sarutobi looked at her with cold eyes and said, "indeed I'm rather glad you asked me that Tsunade, you see I decided that it was hight time to clean house if you will."
"Well that great sensei when are-" Jirayia said, but befire he coud finish his sentence Sarutob interupted him by saying, "I already did. Danzo and my advisors are out of the way and I'm dealing with the civiian council and taking away more of their power by the day."
"That's great sensei, but if you are already doing well then why did you need us to come back," Jirayia asked curisoly.
"Because both of you were next on the list," he stated evenly. Causng both of the sannin's eyes to widen in disbelief.
"Tell me, Tsunade, Jirayia do you have any regrets since leaving the village," he asked codly.
"Well some yeah, you know why I couldn't be here. I have a spy network to maintain, one that has stopped many threats to this village and saved thousands from dying. The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few… no matter how much I would prefer they didn't," Jiraiya said.
"I don't have any regrets since I left the village, and you know why sensei," Tsunade said trying to put up a strong front, but she honestly felt like crying as the memories in her head became stronger from her sensei's question.
The Sandime ws quiet for a few minutes as his face remained s stoic as it did ever since they first entered the room and the next words were like knife being driven into Tsunade's heart, "not even leaving behind Kushina's son, your godson to fend for himself."
Tsunade eyes widened as tears started to stream down her eyes, she glared at her sensei and yelled, "don't you dare use-" But before Tsunade could finish what she was going to say Sarutobi released his killing intent and glared at his female student. Sarutobi spoke in a voice just above a whisper, yet it seemed like he yelled to the two sannin. "I have EVERY right to ask that of you Tsunade, unlike YOU who should demand of me to not use her name like that."
After he said that Tsunade started realizing that he was right, she had abandoned her duty as Naruto's godmother, Tsunade then started sobbing as tears started to go down her cheeks ."Now hold on sensei I know that we haven't-" Jiraiya said, but was interupted by his sensei who glared at him and said, "oh that's a understemeant Jirayia. You don't know a damn thing about him like I do, like I had encouraged you to be, hell even a letter is better then nothing! I have decided that you will pay the price. As of now all of your accounts and assets have also been frozen, and you will be demoted in rank as well. At the moment neither of you can leave the village."
"But, but sensei how will we support ourselves then?" Jiraiya asked as he looked at his sensei with wide eyes.
"By doing D ranks that all Genin do, since both of you will be that after you avoided all of your responsibilities especially as Naruto's godparents!" Sarutobi yelled back at him angrily.
"Ge-Ge-Gen…in," Jiraiya said stupefied by the answer.
"I'm sorry," Tsunade sobbed, once in her life completely sober and had been for the last few days. With the haze gone from her mind all of the pain she normally drunk away was flooding back into her making it difficult to even bother going on.
"Then we'll make it up to the kid starting now, I swear it sensei." Jiraiya said, in an attempt to calm his sensei.
Only for it to back fire on him.
Killing intent started to leak into the room causing the two sannin to stop what they were doing and look at him fearfully, Sarutobi turned around and looked at both of his students and he said coldly to them, "sorry doesn't bring back the dead Tsunade. It's not my forgiveness that you should be asking for, its Naruto's and sorry doesn't bring someone back from the dead!"
Both of the sannin's eyes widened in disbelief and Jiraiya said, "de-dead."
"Yes, Jiraiya Naruto died a couple of days ago, when his apartment was set on fire a few days ago. I am going to tell the village tomorrow about who they have been abusing all of these years and the funeral will be held on the end of the week."
Tsunade's tears started to come out faster as her tears started to go down faster as she said, "it can't be."
A frown formed on her sensei's face as he said, "I'm afraid so, I have already cried for him several times, but I won't let him be remembered as the demon that was killed. You can grieve, but I expect to see both of you at the funeral even if I have to order Anbu to drag both of you there."
After he said that Anbu entered the room and led them to where they would be staying.
Tsunade
Tsunade was currently in a apartment that was similar to the one that Naruto had minus the rats and the roaches. She looked at the room and saw that the plumbing seemed to just be barely working and the paint on the walls was chipped and cracking as well. When she first saw the room she thought, 'did Naruto have to live like this?' when she asked one of the Anbu that escorted her to the apartment she was surprised when one of the Anbu told her that Naruto lived in something even worse then this. Shizune was given a good apartment with plenty of food with a weekly income and was told by Sarutobi that she couldn't have Tsunade stay there with her until he decided that he could and would have her meet Inoichi to help Tsunade get over her the past.
As Tsunade sat there the memories of all those that she lost kept coming into her head. So far she had lost her fiancé and brother on a fool's quest of becoming Hokage. If that wasn't enough, she was stupid enough to go drink and gamble so much of her family's fortune disgracing her heritage and making her clan's name a joke among the elemental nations. To the point that people even began calling her the legendary sucker making casinos begin to rub their hands in glee when they learned she was coming.
Tsunade missed out on raising a child that she could've considered her grandson, but because she was so lost in her drunken state that she refused to take responsibility for the young boy that she promised Kushina that she would take care of if anything ever happened to the redhead and Minato. If only she kept her promise then maybe some of her own pain could have been healed and the pain that Naruto went through could have been prevented. If only she was there for Naruto then he wouldn't have been cheated out of being a shinobi and living a true happy life, he would have had his clan's name backing him as would have been his birth right. If only Tsunade kept her promise to Kushina then Naruto would never have had to experience so much pain before he died. He would've had a real chance at living and not a fake one.
"I deserve this," Tsunade said miserably as she brought her hands to her face and began to cry
Jiraiya
Jiraiya sat in a similar apartment to Tsunade's with a rare expression of seriousness as he thought about what he had done. True he couldn't witch Naruto constantly due to his spy network, but that didn't mean that he couldn't visit every once in a while just to say hi and have a chat with him for a bit. He knew that Naruto's life was going to be bad, he had told Minato that from the start before he sealed the Kyuubi into Naruto and had begged his student to let him do it, but his stupid apprentice just wouldn't listen, and thought Naruto would be the symbol of hope for everyone of a brighter tomorrow.
All it did was make his godson into a symbol of their hatred and a reminder of a dark day, a horrible when so many people had died.
It was during his time away from his sensei after the confrontation with him and Tsunade over what they did to Naruto did Jiraiya realize how much of a failure he had become. How much he should have done for Naruto, but didn't do it, and now couldn't because the boy was dead. He had failed them. He had failed the people that were closest to him and those that were the closest thing that he would ever had to a family. Minato the son he never had, Kushina the daughter he never had, and Naruto the grandson that he had failed. He had failed all three of them in less then a day as he thought, 'I'm sorry… I'm sorry I failed all of you.'
Jiraiya was brought out of his musings when he heard two 'poofs' and saw smoke appear in front of him. When the smoke cleared he saw two toads wearing cloaks in front of him, one had green skin and white hair, and was wearing a lighter colored cloak, while the other one had whitish skin with purple and was wearing a black cloak. They were the Fukasaku and Shima the two sage toads of Mount Myoboku. Jiraiya blinked a few times to see if his eyes were deceiving him and then said, "Ma, Pa, what are you doing here," Jiraiya asked.
Shima looked at Jiraiya and said quickly, "Jiraiya it's good to see you, but we came to tell that something has happened."Jiraiya's eyes widened and he asked quickly, "what happened Ma that got's you two so riled up?"
Fukasaku then stepped forward and said, "Jiraiya boy it's about the great prophecy it's changed!"
Jiraiya gasped in surprised as Fukasaku then told him of what the great prophecy now said. After they told him of what the prophecy now said they then left Jiraiya alone to collect his thoughts as they kept running back to what they said to him. He then jumped up and ran as fast as he could to the Hokage tower to let him know of the prophecy.
A Few Days Later
A few days had passed since Jiraiya had told Sarutobi about the change in the prophecy and him and Tsunade were officially demoted to Genin. Right now a bunch of people were gathered in front of a memorial wearing black. Surprisingly there were a lot of civilians there, though they weren't cheering like they originally did when they heard that he had died. Many of them were crying and felt a deep regret for what they had done to him, at first they couldn't believe that he was the son of the man that saved them and all of the monstrous things that they have done to him. Many people had committed suicide when the Hokage had told them about who Naruto's parents were. The Forth Hokage simply asked for the child to be seen as a hero. And they spat on his wish and claimed that they knew what he wanted, when he had already made it known.
Everyone that had cared about Naruto and knew that he wasn't the beast was there, which included the Ichiraku's, Sarutobi, Anko, Yugao, Kakashi, Kurenai, Jiraiya, Tsunade, Shizune, Mikoto, Itachi, and Satsuki. While Jiraiya and Tsunade felt guilty and sad about Naruto's death. Their sadness was nothing compared to Satsuki's, Mikoto sometimes would have to force her to eat and go outside and get some fresh air, Mikoto noticed that the way Satsuki was acting was similar to a woman who just lost her husband in a war.
Near the end of the funeral Satsuki stared at the photo of her late friend and then clenched her hand into a fist as a look of determination came across her face and thought, 'Naruto you talked about being Hokage, you talked about fulfilling your dream, your dream about being the next Hokage. Since you can't fulfill it… I will fulfill it for you! One day I will be named Hokage of the Hidden Leaf Village this I promise you, and I won't ever go back on it, this I swear!'
If people looked into her eyes they would've saw that her eyes were no longer the same, her eyes were now red with a single black tomoe in each of them with a fire that could never be extinguished.
Nero
Nero walked down to the blacksmith's wearing his usual clothing with the black hood of his jacket over his head, covering his head from the rain that fell from the sky. Nero had his pack slung over his shoulder and intended to leave as soon as the blacksmith was done to leave town and move on. The locket that Satsuki had given him was underneath his shirt to protect it from getting wet. When he stood in front of the shop he opened the door and swathe smith look at him, he then pulled down the hood with his gloved hand and said, "hey old man, is it done."
After the man sighed he said as he went for a black box, "yeah it's done kid. Here you go." when he stood in front of Nero he placed it on the counter for Nero to get a better look at. The weapon was in the form of a 'L' the lower section of the weapon had a brown grip with a golden trim, the weapon was mainly black and had a barrel underneath the first weapon with the chamber of the weapon the same color as well. On the top of the first barrel there was a inscription in golden that said, 'Guardian.'
"It's perfect," Nero said and handed him the money, it came out better then he had hoped. The reason he had just the gun made was because he wasn't sure that the guy could make bullets. So instead he had the weapon formed out of chakra metal, he could push his chakra into the weapon and have it remain there until he pulled the trigger, until the trigger was pulled it would remain there and become more dense. So instead of firing bullets like it originally did it fires chakra blasts.
After he payed for the weapon he made his way out of village with enough food in his pack to last him for awhile. After he was outside of the village he called for 'Kurama' in his form and placed it on his back. While they would make their way to the next village Kurama decided that he would teach him some sealing techniques for storage to be able to carry more supplies. Nero walked down the road and thought, 'I'll find the swords of my ancestors and make a mark on history that won't be forgotten. But most of all I will see Satsuki again, that I promise on my blood.'
"While that is kinda romantic and a rather good speech kid I have one question." Kurama said.
'What?'
"How are you going to find their weapons?" Kurama asked.
Nero was quite for a few seconds, but then he just sighed and thought, 'we will, it's me remember and I'm the luckiest bastard alive.' After he thought that, he made his way towards the next village with a small smile on his face.
Guardian is just a different colored variant of Blue Rose, instead of having the silver color Guardian is black with a golden trim.
Thing to know instead of two people traveling with him like i originally planned its three now and the third will be very unique and play a major role in the story at times.
There will be a time skip next chapter and he will be stronger. Satsuki won't be like at Anbu level before he returns to the leaf, but she will stronger then in Canon and won't have that Superiority complex.
Oh yeah I fixed the story bit about Sparda in the first chapter.
Now some future chap titles.
Grimoire Weiss
The Demon of Fire
I will Protect Her
The demon I have Become
The Sword to Protect, Rebellion
The Sword to Destroy, Yamato
The Sword of Power, Sparda
Well leave a review and tell me about some Devil Arm suggestions.
