"I can hear you" Gaara said when he sensed someone walking besides him. Naruto got out of his way, snapping quickly back to the light. While he ran he noticed that his body felt a little bit… strange. Maybe it had something to do with Ashura nearly never taking the light by force, rejecting everything the world of ninjas have done to his precious ninshu.
"Damn, what were you trying to do, old man?" asked Naruto to himself… or to the person inside his head that currently was trying to get him into troubles. "Didn´t I tell you to wait? I will let you talk to your brother to your hearth´s content after the chuunin exams. For now I need to train dattebayo."
"You don´t know what you are talking about" answered Ashura, returning to his regular spot in his fox brother´s claw. Kurama, for his part, enjoyed bouncing him up and down, remembering when they were little and the life less complicated, when he would do exact the same thing to baby Ashura and Indra was there to catch him. that psychopath used to be a very good brother then… "Shukaku has always been a bit… especial"
"You sound like you don´t trust him" commented Nobunaga, who was moving his head in an effort to keep an eye on his ancestor.
"I trust him, he was quite the advisor after Indra turned rouge on us… but sometimes he doesn´t know when to stop or when to behave. And after my dead he became…" he sighed, jumping down from the claw. "I dreaded to see what is he going to do."
"We will find out very soon, I´m sure of it" Hashirama was worried too. The reputation of the bijuu in question plus the apparent instability of his jinchuuriki wasn´t at all calming. Meanwhile, Naruto went to his house, a bag full of special ramen in his hands. "Why don´t you eat something else? I´m tired of that."
"I don´t know how to cook, ttebayo!" the blond screamed, banging the door. "And I can say the same for all of you!" he reminded them, putting the water to boil. the Uzumaki prepared his dinner quickly and ate before going to bed, to at least be on time the next morning. He soon woke up, stretching. He got there and, much to his surprise, Sakura was the last person of the team to arrive. They entered the place and found a couple of kids trying to stop people from entering the room.
"Look, it´s genjutsu" Hotaru talked, having used them much along with his water style. Besides… Raizo was a fan of genjutsu too. "I can recognize one when I see it."
"Genjutsu" Sasuke noticed too. He told Sakura to dispel it. She did it marvellous, but he got into a fight with a chuunin in disguise, being only stopped by a weirdo in green. He noticed the strength of that supposed weakling and a crippling pain suddenly explode in his head. The raven tried to control it, but it was already talking.
"Better than anyone else… better than anyone else" it became silence once again… until the bushy brows dared him to a fight. Naruto went in first, trying to prove he was good enough without his previous loves, but ended up pathetically losing (his past lives brought up numbers on white papers with zeros, as if this was some kind of game show). The green freak tried to make his Konoha Hurricane… "Better than anyone else… I´m the best…" the words came out of his mouth as if he had no control…and then he blanked out. "I have to be better than anyone else!"
"Shinobu!" Nobunaga screamed, signalling the lightning that started to form in his hands.
"Stop there!" a turtle appeared and stopped them just before a tragedy happened. Sasuke snapped, mortified. For a few seconds he lost control and was replaced by one of his previous lives, one of those psychopaths he never wanted to free into the world. And he was about to kill again…
"I´m sorry, sir" he lifted his head and again was weirded off by Rock Lee… and his even weirder sensei, who appeared after being summoned by a turtle. Finally they got away from the green spandex pair and met their sensei. Kakashi congratulate them for getting there, specially Sakura, since she apparently lacked the conviction to do the exam. His team entered, but he stopped for a second, feeling that now HE was the one lacking conviction. Lacking conviction that his other pasts were going to stay asleep while he did the exam.
"Sensei" he whispered by Kakashi. "A few moments ago… one of the psychos woke up for a few seconds. I… was fighting with one of the other genin and…"
"Sasuke, you have to remember always that the seal is going to be as strong as your willpower is" the scarecrow answered, trying to remain calm. "If they try to take over, then force them back. Remember that this" he put a hand on his shoulder. "is your body, not theirs."
"Yes" the Uchiha answered, clenching his fists. He wasn´t going to let some ghosts of the past ruin his life and opportunities to defeat Itachi. He entered and soon was attacked by Ino… for the Sage, how much he hated her! Wait, the Sage? Did he just used the name of his former father to curse? This has to be wrong in so many levels… a conflict erupted again with the genin from the hidden sound, but he stayed out of it. He didn´t want to give them more opportunities to get free. Ibiki entered in that moment, stopping everyone.
"Let´s begin with the written exam"
"Written exam?" Naruto repeated and an echo could be heard in his head. A chuunin held some papers and panic started in his head. Hashirama was leading, running in circles along with Ashura. Nobunaga was asking himself what were they going to do. Only Hotaru remained calm, his instincts feeling there was something off there. Feeling that only grew bigger once he heard the rules. Nobunaga started yelling at the Shodaime that he should know the answer, as he was the founder of this village. Naruto was more than nervous, not understanding anything.
"Isn´t it strange? The rules I mean" the half Nara interrupted the argument. "Those are not the kind of rules that should be put for an exam like this. Besides, this questions are too difficult to answer for any genin… and most chuunin."
"And what then, Mr. Brain? If you are so smart then help us to solve it" asked the wind style master, leaving the poor Hokage alone and launching himself at Hotaru.
"I don´t have the answers, but… maybe I´m on the right track" the water style shinobi opened peeked at the board again. "This test is made to force us to cheat without being discovered. And apart of that… the other objective is evaluating the communication between the team, to pass the information from one to another without being found out by an enemy" they all frowned, remembering the importance of that in a battle. "Yes, that´s it"
"Great, now give me the answers, dattebayo!" Naruto said inwardly, remembering that he shouldn´t scream that.
"I don´t have them" repeated the half Nara. "But I know someone who has"
"Hum?"
"Raizo has always been good for this kind of job, I can only guess his reincarnation is too"
"Oh, yeah" Naruto continued without understanding. "Can you put on one of those strange water genjutsu things you do to distract the guards while I moved and answer Sasuke."
"Use your brain, they would never fall for that" Hotaru put a hand on his temple, trying to solve the solution without making a scene or recurring to his genjutsus. "There has to be something else…"
"Maybe the good old trap will work" suggested the fox and all of them turned to see him, specially Ashura. "You know, the good old trap you always used when father ordered Indra to make an exam for you, to see if you have really read those books he gave to you."
"That one?" they all looked at the oldest between them. He sweat dropped. "Well… I was never good at solving exams and my brother tended to make them harder than he knew I can deal with. So… I used the ninshu capability to connect chakra to communicate with my brothers and sisters. They helped me solve the problems and passed the answers to me"
"Ashura, you are a genius… a genius at cheating in an exam" the water style master looked up. "You heard him. Change with him for a moment, then Ashura will connect you with your teammates and they will pass the answers"
"But I want to do it on my own!" the blond pouted. "Can´t you teach me the jutsu?"
"It´s not a jutsu and there is no time, just let me do it" Ashura suddenly was in control. He could sense his brothers chakras in the room, the three of them. "Okay, let´s start with a known chakra. And I choose…" Sasuke felt something strange in his head that distracted him from the question that he was answering. "Hello"
"Who…"
"I´m Ashura, don´t hang just yet" the Ootsutsuki warner. "This is my chakra connection technique and will allow us to communicate without being detected"
"Hum, clever. Naruto couldn´t pass or copy on his own without messing it up, so he used your ability to get the information" he took his nearly done exam and started reading it. "Okay, can you see the first question? The answer…" Naruto´s hand started writing what Sasuke passed Ashura. The first question was answered and soon the paper was nearly all written. "Should we communicate with Sakura to know how she is doing?"
"Wait a minute, I will…" the Sage´s heir quickly get out of the pinkette´s mind when he felt something weird. "She is being controlled by someone else, we have to wait" something came to the Ootsutsuki´s mind. "You know, it´s just like working alongside my brother again…"
"I´m not your brother" the Uchiha spat, hating his wayward ancestor. "I never were and never will be him. in fact, the only thing I want now is to get him out of my head and back into hell, where he belongs."
"Woow, touchy" Ashura commented. "Don´t worry, you surely don´t sound like him" finally, Ino left the mind of Sakura and Ashura was able to connect them. The girl nearly screamed. "Shushhhh, I´m Naruto" he lied… well, technically not. "This is my super especially ability, chakra connections. We can communicate through them."
"Chakra… why didn´t you mention this before, baka?!" she thought, wanting to smack the blond. "Okay, you want the answers?" she lifted her sheet. "Which one first?"
"Three, the bastard didn´t have it either" Sakura let them see her exam and soon the whole team got a nine. "The only thing left is the tenth question… wait a sec" he shut down the connection, returning to his own mind. "There is something off with that tenth question, don´t you think?"
"Yes, especially since this exam is much like an interrogatory session" Hotaru commented, furrowing his brow. "Don´t tell me the rest of you couldn´t see it? Ashura and the kid I can understand, but your two are seasoned ninjas. He is using torture and interrogation tactics to put us nervous and making us commit a mistake" then he heard Ibiki signal the fifteen minutes before the final and the rules… the staying genin rule. His other lives started to panic again. "Calm down"
"How can we calm down?!" Hashirama screamed, running around in circles. "I was a Kage, there is no way I can stay a genin in this live! Saru is going to kill me!"
"I said calm down, because the correct answer is staying calm" the half Nara raised a hand. "this is an interrogation, he wants us to break under the pressure. The correct answer to the tenth question… is not to raise a hand."
"Okay… I will pass it"
"There is no need" Naruto recovered his body and raised a hand only to smash it on the table. He screamed that he wasn´t going to give up. That gave them all the hint, all in the room. Finally they passed… and Ibiki explained them the exam. Hashirama whistled, he had to give it to Ibiki. He surely knew how to survive an interrogatory. He would be sorry for the man if he wasn´t such a scary interrogator. Anko appeared after the explaining, with a big pamphlet behind her.
"Okay, boys and girls" the kunoichi said happily. "No time for celebrations. I will be your next proctor, Anko Mitarashi. Are you ready for the next exam!"
"I think we are" Ashura commented. Sasuke wasn´t so sure, as he could feel a headache and something dark stirring inside of him. it remained like that until the woman gave them permission to leave… he shuddered. He suddenly had a very bad feeling about the second exam.
-The next day-
"A forest? My speciality!" Hashirama was happy to be on his element for once. The forest of death used to be his favourite place to train besides the riverside too, especially when his best friend was in humour to do it with him. "This was one of me and Madara´s favourite places. I hope you enjoy it too"
"Great, creepy forest" Naruto commented. He walked by Hinata when he read the form to enter. She started to act a bit strange… a lot strange. Ashura chuckled, remembering Kanna. She was like that too before they got together. But for some reason he didn´t tell Naruto. They entered the creepy forest without talking about love. "Tell me, do you remember any tower in the forest?"
"No, they must have recently build it and…"
"Careful, something evil is getting closer"
"Something evil? Is it your brother? Well… one of them" the blond tried to use his own evilness radar to detect whatever was getting close to them… hummm, a lot of evil presences were detected. A whole team, the jinchuuriki of the sand, another weirdo… woow, that surely was evil. Evil that felt like… snake? Yes, snake. "Question: is it there an evil snake brother of yours you haven´t talked to us about?"
"Snake?" Ashura raised an eyebrow, putting a hand in front of his face. "There was a cat, an octopus, a fox, a raccoon, a monkey… aniya… no, no snakes"
"Then there is a really evil snake out there… and my bladder is full" he started to make a dance. He excused himself for a moment, only to be blown up and attacked by a really big snake. But… this was not the snake who was giving him such an evil vibration. Hotaru whispered the word summon on his mind. "Summon…"
"We have to get back… NOW!" but the viper caught and swallowed him, only to be blown up by his Kage bunshin no jutsu. He ran back to his team, only to find the evil snake with them. Ashura shuddered, he has never sensed something like that before… not outside of the Ootsutsuki clan. "What is he trying to do?"
"I don´t know, but I can´t leave Sasuke alone, ttebayo!" Naruto attacked and engaged Orochimaru in his own sluggish way. in the middle of the fight a little bit of Kurama´s chakra was shown and the Sannin put a seal over the Fourth´s seal. The youngest went unconscious, but his past lives no. Ashura put his hands to work immediately, trying to remove the seal that was hurting his brother. Unfortunately, in the middle of that, the snake Sannin marked Sasuke with the cursed seal.
"Ahhhhh!" the Uchiha screamed, getting to his knees. The mark hurt… but it didn´t hurt as much as his head! Oh, the rage! The rage of an incomparable powerful soul that was awakening, fuelled by that sentiment.
"And when the…" Orochimaru was cut when the boy got to his feet and took a hand full of chakra to the mark. He grabbed it… and pulled the part of his soul he left in him like it was nothing! The Sannin took a step back, terrified by the chakra in front of him, the hand grabbing a part of his soul… crushing it as if it was nothing!
"How dare you…" he growled, his eyes turning a terrifying red with a distinct pattern. Even Sakura tried to get away from him, it was truly a scary sight. "How DARE you?!" the Magnekyo Sharingan shone with immense power, even more than Itachi´s. "HOW DARE YOU TO MARK MY BODY AND INFILTRATE A PART OF YOUR MISERABLE SOUL ON IT?! YOU, WHO IS NOTIHNG BUT A VERMIN COMPARED TO ME!"
"What… what are you?" the snake started backing away, the teen in front of him calling for his sully formed Susanoo. Suddenly, the blond he thought he had defeated moved at light speed, forming what looked like a giant battle avatar made of shinny chakra. And it was protecting him, an enemy.
"Run"
"What?"
"RUN!" Ashura pushed his brother backwards. "Ani-sama is not known for pardoning the lives of the people that angers him! if he ever gets to escape me, he is going to kill you and, believe me, nothing you do will avoid it!"
"Nothing to…" he believed. It was unbelievable, but… he believed him. If someone like that attacked him, then he would truly die without achieving his goal. The Sannin prepared to flee, but then the Susanoo ninja grabbed his head as if he was in pain. His voice started to falter and he began breathing hard. What was happening here?
"Woow, the kid got more in him than I thought" the blond was surprised. Ashura never thought that something like this might happened. Sasuke was giving his brother a run for his money. Indra howled in pain, his voice mixing with his descendant´s.
"I… will… not let you… control me…" the Uchiha managed to say, pushing his ancestor back to the seal that now contained the psychopaths of his clan. "You… are nothing… but a ghost… of the… past… you… you… YOU WILL NOT CONTROL ME!"
"You… damn…" the Ootsutsuki growled, annoyed. He was being forced into the deeps of that consciousness. "I… I… you can´t…" he clenched his teeth. "I AM THE ORIGIN OF THE SHARINGAN! YOU CANNOT DO THIS TO ME!"
"GUESS WHAT, I ALREADY DID!" yelled Sasuke and recovered control entirely. He smiled, fainting immediately. Orochimaru approached to mark Sasuke again, but the battle avatar got in his way. Ashura took that opportunity to connect his chakra with the snake´s, using ninshu… to make him feel the pain of every person he hurt. The man screamed and got away from the powerful but toxic (at least for him) charka.
"I… think I will lay down a bit too" Naruto´s body fainted too and Sakura approached her two teammates. She just couldn´t believe it… were they really that powerful? Maybe… maybe she should really train more… but… it was… so scary… what exactly happened there? She laid them down to rest, they still have some time to finish the exam.
-Later-
"You know, the kid´s body is recovering but his consciousness is still exhausted by the effort of pushing Indra back into the seal" said a fully awakened Shinobu to his companions, sensing the commotion out there. He knew that the pink haired nuisance was in trouble and that two little batches of genin were helping her, but still… it has been a long time since he had the opportunity to see his miracle in red. "If you care, I will take the light now"
"Wait, why should be let you?" Madara glared at him. "I am the one that knows the forest better, I can get us out of here"
"And I will put them all in stakes before they could begin…"
"But I am the one who should go… because I´m thirsty for blood and that´s not a pretty sight" he licked his lips and saw his hands. Suddenly they flashed and he saw them covered in a red liquid that for a second… no, he shouldn´t think like that. His miracle of red, the earth soaked in the blood of his enemies…
"Again, why you and no me?"
"I will show you now" he grabbed the light and the body awoken. Shinobu got up. He counted the enemy… three, perfect. And if he wasn´t satisfied…
"Sasuke-kun…" Sakura said in worry, somehow knowing that there was something off with her friend. The look in his eyes was terrifying, full of bloodthirst and something more, something like madness. "I´m so glad that you finally are…"
"Let´s see… I will start with you" he signalled Zaku and attacked. He was enjoying with the idiot´s arms when someone got in his way. Nobunaga was awake, ready to stop him if it was needed. The rivals stared at each other, seizing the other up. Shinobu continued… only to have Sakura to latch at him. this awoke Sasuke, who forced him back into the seal. "Awww, you are not fun. I was about to pop his arms out. Just imagine the river of blood."
"Shut up" said the youngest Uchiha, grabbing his head. First Indra and then Shinobu. Could this day go worse? Wait, he didn´t want to know. For his part, Nobunaga quietly returned to his place, letting a now recovered Naruto to take over.
"Mendokusei" Shikamaru stared at them, frowning. There was something really weird with those two, he could tell. And Dozu did too, as he grabbed his teammates. The only question was if it was the mark or something else… well, unless he wanted to die it was time to leave. Something evil was definitely behind this and he was beginning to doubt it was Orochimaru.
"I will leave you our scroll, but this is no over" threatened the sound shinobi before leaving.
-Days later-
"You passed" Iruka announced before letting them enter the place where the other teams were waiting. Sasuke was grabbing his head. Unfortunately for him, his past lives began to talk to him from within the seal. And they never shut up! He was getting a migraine. For his part, Ashura kept his eyes on the redhead. He was getting really worried for his brother, what could have happened to the tanuki.
"Sasuke…" Sakura heard the proctor announce that whoever wasn´t in best condition could leave. She thought that Sasuke should take a rest, but he was too stubborn to quit. "Sasuke, please, you have to quit and go to the infirmary, there is definitely something..."
"If you dare to say a word about…"
"I give up" Kabuto signalled. He was very amicable and the blond felt like giving him a bit of support, but according to Naruto´s radar he was bad, so he stayed away from him. the silver haired nerd walked away without knowing what really was being cooking there. Orochimaru, in the podium of the teachers, looked at the two with interest. He wasn´t that interested in the body of Sasuke anymore, but whatever that was inside of him was worth studying. He smiled when the panel was opened and the Uchiha´s name appeared.
"Woow, they don´t lose time" he flinched in pain, feeling… bloodlust. The bloodlust of that dammed Shinobu Uchiha. Sasuke got in front of Yoroi, who mentioned the mark. The man tried to suck away his chakra, but he only managed to hurt himself when Shinobu´s bloodlust polluted it in his try to gain control. He quickly pushed the wayward clan head back inside and continue, beating Yoroi.
"Hey, Sasuke" Kakashi entered in the moment. "We are going to reseal those psychos now"
"But I want to…"
"No buts, there has been enough negligence. Those four are dangerous and if they were to awake now…" the raven frowned and followed his sensei, not wanting to give those psychos the opportunity to get free. Naruto saw them leaving, keeping an eye on the other jinchuuriki too. Ashura was so worried for his brother…
"He will kill his opponent, I know" commented the Ootsutsuki, trying to soothe his nerves by sitting in his favourite place, the fox´s paw. Kurama just commented that since a lot time ago their second big brother was a nutcase. Finally it was time for Kiba and Naruto to fight.
"Heh! It´s Naruto! We won the lottery, Akamaru!" the blond frowned. He didn´t like when people looked down on him because of his beginnings, most of Ashura´s reincarnations begin as fools and ended up as great fighters and leaders. All thanks to friendship and hard work, something he was a genius at. And he was proud of it.
"I will make him eat his words" the Uzumaki jumped to the battlefield. He was given encouragement by his past lives… maybe it was time to use the techniques they taught him. Kiba was the first to attack, but he was ineffective. Ashura´s and Kurama´s enhanced healing factor turned his taijutsu attacks ineffective. Anyway, it was hard to get them. Especially after they ate the soldier pills.
"Right, it´s time to end this" he made some quick hand signs, running around the field to escape the Gatsuga. He prepared his arms. "Wind Style: Double wind scythe!"
"What?!" Temari yelled when Kiba was trapped in the attack, the cuts appeared in his body. The Inuzuka started bleeding. Nobunaga started breathing hard, he didn´t like blood at all. His wind style was made to be directed at strategic points to completely defeat his opponent without killing or spilling blood. The girl, for her par… "I never thought… that Konoha would have another wind style using genin" suddenly she smiled. "This just turned interesting"
"So… the runt was better than I thought, eh?" Kankuro saw Kiba got to his feet again, only to be defeated by a taijutsu. Neji, in the other part of the room, activated his Byakugan. There was something… off with him. and not only that Hinata-sama seemed to be crazy with him. Shikamaru frowned too, since when Naruto could use wind natured chakra?
"Ashura, see this…" Kurama was interested in the next fight, especially because of… "Uncle Hamura must be seeing us right now"
"I hope no" answered the younger Ootsutsuki, listening to the hurtful words the older cousin was giving the female Hyuuga. Naruto screamed to encourage her to fight, giving her back some of the fighting spirit of the old Ootsutsuki clan. "Where did all the kindness of Hamura went?"
"Was lost in the generation after he" commented Hashirama. Soon the encounter was over and the next came out. Gaara against Lee.
"Hummmm… Ashura, if you want to change with me… dattebayo…"
"Af… after. I don´t want to…" it turned out Lee was good, too good for a genin. He was taijutsu master, a true one. He could get through the sand shield that cocooned his brother´s jinchuuriki. But Gaara was so strong… and his bloodlust… no, his AND Shukaku´s bloodlust. Ashura felt his spiritual throat constrict. He was horrified. "He demanded blood? That… he changed so much in this years?"
"Hey, turn it down, ttebayo" flinched Naruto, making Kankuro frown. This boy… he could tell he was strange. Was he… like Gaara? He didn´t gave it much thought, as Lee got rid of some of his training equipment and became a super speed prodigy. "Wooow, bushy brows is scary! And fast! Was he always that fast?"
"Even like that… my brother is too strong" Ashura commented for them. "He is going to…" the fight continued and Lee put himself in more and more danger. It ended up with Gaara trying to kill him. "Shukaku… nii-san… no… please… don´t… father… don´t let him…" Ashura was getting more and more terrified. Naruto saw the sand boy trying to kill the weird ninja. "Naruto, lend me your body!" he pleaded. The blond didn´t need to be told twice. They changed and Ashura screamed. "NOOOO! REMEMBER NINSHU! CHAKRA ISN´T A TOOL TO KILL!"
"Ahhh?" everybody looked at him. Naruto was in the verge of tears, with an expression they couldn´t understand. Kankuro was about to ask him what the hell he was trying to say, that contradict everything the shinobi knew, when he saw the sand drop and Gaara to look with an expression he has never seen in him. it was… longing.
"Thank you… nii-san" The blond whispered, jumped and landed on his feet near the injured Lee. Ashura put his healing abilities to work, making his body glow a bit because of the ancient iro ninjutsu. Gai jumped too, still concerned over his pupil. He was too hurt to be healed by… AHHH! He got up! And looked absolutely fine!
"Ahhhh? But I was…"
"Please… forgive me… and him" Ashura bowed to him. this was his fault, his absolute fault. His brother´s pain and anger… he failed his father. He lowered his voice, so only Lee could hear. "Forgive nii-san"
"Nii-san?" but he was gone now. The last encounter finally took place and the Hokage announced that the final round will be in a month. Ashura sighed, it meant that they had enough time to train the youngest and… Naruto could fulfil his own promise. They needed to find a suitable master for him too, as their most powerful techniques required more chakra control.
"Naruto, can you…"
"After I talked to Kakashi-sensei, I will lend you my body tomorrow" he announced. Hiruzen didn´t let his eye away from him, knowing what exactly was behind him. And Gaara… now he knew exactly what he was. The one that talked before wasn´t Naruto, it was Ashura. And Ashura would only get out into a world he hated for one reason. His brothers. The boy was a jinchuuriki.
"Hokage-sama" Anko approached him. "Perhaps we should pull the Uchiha off, if Orochimaru is indeed after him and marked him then…"
"Kakashi informed me, he wasn´t marked" Anko let her breath go in relieve, her leader wouldn´t lie to her about something like that. Now she could focus entirely in making her former sensei pay. "but I´m afraid that Orochimaru could have awaken something else, something even worse than him."
"Worse than…"
"I will talk with you later" he left to go to the office, where a distinct visit was waiting for him. the old man sat down in front of his old pupil. "Welcome home, Jiraiya. I hope I didn´t take you from something important."
"Well, you pulled me out of…"
"I´m not talking about your idiotic perverted novels" he sighed. "I can´t believe you, writing that kind of reading material and calling it important" the monkey man stared at his former student. "anyway, Jiraiya, I called you back because of Naruto."
"Naruto?" he was surprised. "Sensei, what the hell happened to my godson? If those damn villagers did something to him I sweat on Minato´s steed that I will…"
"Unfortunately, that´s exactly what happened. Please let me explain it" he signalled to the already pissed off and ready to go Sannin. "Sit down, shut up and listen" he ordered, which the other did. "Some years ago, an incident happened. The villagers attacked him and he was powerless to defend himself" the Toas Sennin gritted his teeth. "So… he searched for help inside of him… and got it"
"Wait, what?" then something struck him like a lightning. "Are you saying that… he developed a second personality?"
"Four"
"FOUR!" his chair felt to the floor.
"I told you to listen" Sarutobi ordered again, forcing the Sannin to put the chair back in it´s place and sit down again. "Yes, he developed four other personalities. The deal with them is… that they are not only personalities. They are… pieces of his past" Jiraiya looked at him without understanding. "They are his past lives"
"Past… lives?" he asked. Sarutobi nodded and the Sannin sighed. Past lives, eh? He knew that some souls were likely to reincarnate, but to have a living proof of that… that was just his luck. "And what? Who was him in the past? A ventor? An actor?"
"They were seasoned shinobi, all of them" now he was impressed. To think Naruto was reborn to become a shinobi once again having being one before. "Quite famous, all of them. And as that, they were able to keep the boy alive until now" he crossed his arms. "Now, Naruto needs to train to use his full potential. Kakashi asked Ebizu to help Naruto train, but… he was already defeated by Naruto himself. That would be a problem."
"Ja, of course" he rolled his eyes. The man was already defeated by the youngest incarnation, there was no way the older ones would listen to him and that would encourage problems. "Okay, I will train the brat, despite what his past selfs might think" he crossed his arms. "And well? Who are they, sensei?"
"The closest in time to Naruto is him" he pointed with one of his fingers to one of the portraits in the wall, the Shodaime. Jiraiya´s mouth felt to the floor. "Yes, that was what I thought before. And then, we have…" he pulled out an old book, opening it in a chapter. "the inventor of Suiton. Then…" put another chapter. "The Fuuton master in the history… And" he pulled out another thing that made the Sannin take a step back. "the eleventh son and heir of the Rikkudo Sennin… ahhh… the youngest brother of the Bijuu."
"WHAT?!" the scream could be heard everywhere. After a short moment, Jiraiya left the tower with the intention of seeing Naruto. "Who would have thought? This might be funny… Naruto"
Hello! what do you think? Is Jiraiya going to shut the past incarnations of Naruto up or they are going to disrespect him? How is he going to deal with them all? And what will happen with Ashura and Shukaku? Families are never easy. Review!