Naruto Demi-God
Disclaimer: The usual. I don't own anything that happens, I'm merely playing in a fictional playground.
Warning: My characters play hard and loose about mature subjects like sex, drugs and alcohol. There will be references to sex, pregnancy, humiliation, sexuality and casual mentions of breaking limbs or beating someone black and blue along with mentions of brutal violence. That being said, to obey the rules of the site, there will be no explicit content and I will leave most of it to your imagination. If you want to read stories with explicit content with lemons and such, this is not the story for you.
Kingdark: Welcome to the fourth chapter of Naruto, Demi-God. It seems that I'm on a trend with my tutorials thing. Every time I've done it so far, Naruto just woke up. So that practically forces me to do a time-skip for every chapter. That or skip a tutorial. We'll see what happens.
Chapter 04
TUTORIAL SEQUENCE INITIATED
This tutorial will discuss the fact you will never be without a weapon…
Summon armor / weapon
You will be never without a weapon. At this time your summon weapon/armor skill level is at rank C. This means that you only pay a significant amount of chakra to summon a weapon the first time you do it. You can then dismiss the weapon and summon it again with far less effort. Depending on the complexity of the weapon you summon, the chakra cost will decrease or increase accordingly. If you need a single kunai in a pinch, you could pretty much summon kunai hours on end without even noticing the drain. If however, you try to summon something close to the Raijin no Ken, the infamous sword that once belonged to Senju Tobirama, the chakra cost will be huge, even for you.
Note: The metaphorical kunai you may or may not have thrown all over the place can either be dismissed, erasing all evidence of them or you can summon them back to your person. Summoning the weapons back to your person will also erase all evidence that the kunai were ever there as well.
Similar to weapons, you will always be protected. You can dismiss your clothing with a thought, leaving you naked, which can be useful if you need to lose bothersome weight in a hurry. Or if you are busy with a partner and need to get rid of your clothing as well. Whichever comes first. The armor itself is very tough but it requires a constant, never ending stream of chakra to keep it in top condition. That's not to say that to stop feeding it chakra would dismiss the weapon but merely that it won't repair itself immediately. The armor you summon can take whatever form you can imagine. It can take the form of regular clothing and if you feel threatened, it can switch itself to heavy armor to protect your vital points.
Finally, if you reach a higher rank, you may also be able to summon other tools to use in a fight. Going from something to make a fire with to special gloves to climb a wall with although the latter could probably be counted as part of the armor.
That concludes this tutorial…
X
Training ground forty four (44)
Naruto opened his eyes and kept himself perfectly still. He could sense Sasuke to his left. He was still in a deep slumber if his regular breathing was an indicator. Sakura was supposed to be on guard duty and… Yup. There she was. She was perched on a tree above them. He couldn't tell if she was hidden from sight but the only reason he could sense her was because he knew she was there and because she considered him her ally. It was as simple as that.
Kakashi was supposed to stay with them until six hundred hours to give them his last instructions before the scenario initiated officially. Part of him was still a bit suspicious about why the Hokage would go through so much effort and resources just to make the scenario happen.
Kuro and Kurama were sleeping close to him and because of their close connection they had woken up at the same time as him.
"Did you experience the dream?" He asked them wordlessly. Because they had developed their own way to communicate. It wasn't telepathy. He couldn't hear their thoughts and they couldn't hear his but… They could exchange images. Emotions. Idea's.
Naruto opened his eyes and they shook their head in the negative. Kuro and Kurama then stretched and joined Sakura. It was partly to cover for Naruto waking up and partly to check on her. It was unlikely that they would be found so early in the scenario let alone attacked, but that being said, Sakura would have to equal Kuro and Kurama as allies as well.
Naruto guessed that as Kuro and Kurama were stretching and taking their time to go to Sakura, they were also reviewing his memory of the dream.
Naruto cursed the fact that the dreams had started so late. If the tutorials had started sooner, he would have known what to focus on… As it was, he would have to ignore the skill for now and use the weapons he had on hand. Now was not the time to experiment, especially not if it would take so much chakra as it implied.
The full implications of what it could do were enormous. He would literally never be without a weapon. If he could figure out how much chakra the armor needed to go from 'heavily damaged' to 'fully restored' he would know to always have that much in reserve.
"I wonder… Could I develop something that would allow me to store real weapons into a…" Naruto paused for a moment, trying to find the best word to use. "To store real weapons into a portable dimension of some sort." Naruto just sighed and dismissed it for now. Even if he could develop something like that, he would not do so now.
"I'll have to figure out if my allies can borrow weapons I've summoned." Naruto thought to himself.
"Note to self, make sure to remember the many camera's in the area. Unless you want to answer uncomfortable questions."
Naruto's thoughts were interrupted by the arrival of Kakashi. "Rise and shine my cute little students. We have only twenty minutes until six hundred hours and then you'll be on your own. I have been authorized by the Hokage to expand your knowledge of the training ground. Count yourselves lucky because of that."
Sakura jumped down from her perch in an impressive show of agility. Sasuke was slowly waking up but it didn't take long for him to go from sleep to wide awake. So it was only a few moments later that the genin of team seven were waiting for Kakashi to give their latest Intel.
"Alright, let me get straight to the point because I have a lot to tell you and only minimal time to do it. Training ground forty four has been used many times before for part two of the Chūnin exams and for high level AnBu training sessions." Kakashi paused to let that sink in and to wait for the inevitable protests.
"Wait," Naruto said slowly. "How would AnBu find this place challenging if the training ground is used for genin trying to prove themselves worthy for a promotion?!"
"That's because training ground forty four, also known as the forest of death, for good reason mind you, can be divided into three rough sectors. Sector D is the part where the Chūnin exams take place. It holds dangerous plant life, insects, animals and old traps from previous tests. Sector C is much more dangerous because the plant life, insects, animals and old traps are much higher in quantity and strength. Chūnin usually go to sector C to prepare themselves for jounin ranks and there are always permanent causalities." Kakashi explained.
"Sector B on the other hand… It has the same of everything before in even higher quantities and qualities but on top of that, everything has mutated to the point where you won't recognize anything. Going there as a genin is a death sentence. Going there as an experienced Chūnin is a death sentence. I think it would even be accurate to say that to go there as a jounin would be a death sentence! It's in sector B where AnBu go for training purposes. Of course, sector B has nothing on sector A."
"How many sectors are there in total and do we get a map?" He really didn't want to find himself in sector C, let alone sector B.
"Five." Kakashi answered grimly.
"Intel on sector D is generally one hundred percent accurate. Sometimes a critter from a more dangerous sector ends up in a weaker sector and it will then eventually breed with its weaker cousins. For the purpose of this scenario, only the three of you will have the latest up to date map of sector D, C and even sector B just in case. Well, no, I'm wrong. Your classmates will also be given the same map you yourselves have but they aren't allowed to share it with our enemies. But I'm getting off track here."
"Intelligence on sector C is generally accurate but the wildlife tends to migrate at what seem to be random times. The trouble is with sector B and higher. Wildlife in sector B tends to be all over the place. Predators are fighting all the time and their breed rates are all over the place. Intel on sector B is probably fifty percent accuracy and by this time next week, that accuracy will have gone down to twenty five. It won't take another week after that to get to zero. Sector A on the other hand… Only the Hokage and the sannin have gone into sector A for training purposes. It's last map is decades old but the thing about sector A is that it doesn't change." Kakashi paused again.
"Wait, what?" Sasuke repeated. "If this sector A is so dangerous and sector B changes all the time, how can it not change?"
"Because Sasuke, the creatures there are huge. They are highly territorial and don't take kindly to any intrusion. It is why even the Hokage rarely goes there. The border between sector B and A is clearly marked. Don't cross it no matter what. Then we have sector S and we don't know if this is accurate or not. Sector is actually beneath the training ground. There are tunnels, caves that go downwards for… Well, we don't actually know." Kakashi explained patiently.
"What we do know though, is that even creatures from sector A don't dare to go into the tunnels and that was when we deliberately pissed them off enough to lure them to follow." Kakashi handed them copies of the maps he had been given.
"Take however long you need to memorize these maps and then burn them before my eyes." Kakashi ordered.
Naruto, Sakura and Sasuke took their time to look at the maps, doing their hardest to memorize them so they could reproduce it later if needed.
"Well, you need to burn everything except for the D rank maps. While it would be bothersome to lose a copy of that, it wouldn't be a disaster." Kakashi added helpfully.
Nodding, the three genin put the D rank maps back in their pouch and then resumed studying the maps carefully.
"I'm done." Sakura declared.
"So am I." Sasuke agreed.
"I'll need a bit longer if I'm to memorize it accurately." Naruto responded, not looking up.
Sakura and Sasuke both shrugged and threw their copies of the map into the fire and watched it burn.
"Kakashi-sensei, if I could guarantee that it would be impossible to lose my copy of the map, could I take full responsibility for it and keep it on my person?"
"Can you?" Kakashi asked in response.
Naruto took action by inscribing a small seal onto the D rank map. He carefully folded the map around a stone and handed it to Kakashi. "Throw it as far away as you can manage." Naruto said simply.
Kakashi just shrugged and did as instructed as he threw the stone with the map tied around it as far away as he could.
"Now, tell me when you think the stone landed somewhere on the ground." Naruto said simply.
"Now." Kakashi said after exactly five minutes had passed.
Naruto formed a seal and in a flash, the same stone he had thrown away a few minutes before was in his hand. Except it had a reddish color. Apparently it had hit something alive to the point where it had done some damage.
Kakashi took the stone from Naruto, folded the map open and studied it carefully.
"Scenario leader to monitor, have you observed?"
"…"
"Acknowledged." Kakashi said.
"Demonstrate again with Sasuke's copy of the D rank map." Kakashi ordered curtly.
Frowning, Sasuke retrieved his copy of the map and handed it over.
"Can you bind the map to Sasuke so he can summon it?" Kakashi asked.
"No." Naruto responded. "Unless he can knows exactly how the seal works, and just copying isn't enough mind you, but unless he knows the mechanics behind the seal, it wouldn't work. A single mistake could lead to nothing being summoned, to the map being summoned and then exploding or so many other possible side effects." Naruto added.
"I see." Kakashi muttered.
"Nevertheless, inscribe your seal into the map and I'm going to be testing it several times, throwing it in various directions."
"As you wish." Naruto responded with a shrug.
For the next ten minutes, Kakashi continued to test the seal until he nodded to himself and made contact again.
"Scenario leader to monitor, have you observed and received orders?"
"…"
"I see. Are you sure?"
"…"
"Very well. Orders acknowledged." Kakashi replied.
"Okay, listen up, I have my doubts about this but you have been authorized to keep the maps with you. Not only that but the scenario has been… Changed at the last moment." Kakashi informed them.
"To reflect the possession of those documents, the enemy now knows that you have stolen top secret documents that could lead to their surrender if you get them out safely. They will try their hardest to recapture the documents. You are now under orders to keep those documents safe at all costs. Losing them is unacceptable. Them being destroyed would result in failure. You can no longer return the map back to me. Do you understand the changes to the scenario?" Kakashi asked.
"Yes sir." Naruto acknowledged.
"I do." Sasuke agreed.
"Same." Sakura echoed.
"Okay then." Kakashi agreed. "Sakura, Sasuke, burn your copies of the maps. Naruto will put the seals on his copies of the map. Decide on your own who will keep the map on your person. I don't think this needs to be said, but for your own sake, avoid sectors B through S. In fact, if you are driven towards those locations, surrender." Kakashi said seriously.
"You are rookie genin, you don't want to be lost in sector C let alone the higher sectors. I believe that you can survive in sector C, barely but I believe you could. That being said, get OUT of there as soon as you can. Every sector is clearly marked and if you are ever lost, you know what to do. Send the flares up immediately."
"Kakashi-sensei?" Sakura said hesitantly. "Since the higher sectors are so dangerous, does that mean that they also don't have any camera's in them?"
"No actually." Kakashi answered. "Right now, a large force of shinobi is reinstalling camera's on all the borders."
"All the borders?" Naruto repeated.
"All of them." Kakashi agreed.
"Okay, this is getting ridiculous." Sasuke snapped suddenly. "I can get that we are talented, or that we impressed you or whatever, but the amounts of resources that the Konoha is throwing at this is ridiculous! What the hell is really going on Kakashi!?" Sasuke demanded.
Kakashi just sighed and shook his head.
"Survive." He said simply.
"Survive." He repeated.
"You have your orders." Then he used body flicker to get out of there.
"I think…" Naruto began carefully. "That there are bigger and more complicated politics behind this
then I could ever have thought." Naruto said quietly.
"Yhea, no shit Sherlock!" Sakura snapped back sarcastically.
"Naruto, inscribe those seals of yours in the map. Sakura, after he's done take another look at them and make faulty copies, make sure that the mistakes are small, but significant enough to matter. Memorize the fake mistakes you made and then keep the faulty copies on your person. Naruto… How well are you at memorizing things?"
"Not very good." Naruto admitted. "I could memorize things well enough for a general summary or a description but I need a good amount of time to really memorize it."
Sasuke took a deep sigh and nodded. "Okay, you can't be perfect at everything I suppose. I have memorized the maps perfectly. I've been good at for as long as I can remember and Sakura is even better than me. She can read a book once and then write an identical copy down on paper without pause. I know because we tested it." Sasuke explained.
"That means, between the three of us, at least in this, you are the weak link." Sasuke continued.
"Hey, I can memorize them when we are on downtime. I'll get it eventually, I just need more than ten minutes to do it." Naruto defended himself.
"Okay." Sasuke acknowledged. "But for now, the fact remains that at least for the moment and for this specific one thing, you are the weak link. That means you need to carry the real deal on your person since you are also the only one to summon the maps back to your person."
Naruto just grunted in reply as he worked to inscribe the seals on the maps themselves. Once he was done, Sakura busied herself to make faulty copies that they could negotiate with if they absolutely had to.
"Do we use the faulty maps to negotiate with the homeless nin that are known to be in the area?" Naruto asked curiously.
"…That's a good question but probably not." Sasuke decided. "I know for a fact that Shikamaru is smarter than the entire class put together. "
"I also know that Kiba, despite the impressions he may have given you is also very good at memorizing things." Naruto offered.
"Kakashi never said just how many homeless nin there would be in the area…" Sakura observed.
"That means that if they are in the presence of others, they could be considered compromised or hostile." Sasuke agreed.
X
Monitor command center at the same time
"Did you have to be so damned mysterious Kakashi?" The Hokage demanded tiredly.
"Oops?" The man offered sheepishly.
"And I thought that you told me you gave them all the intel you were supposed to give them?" Shikaku asked.
"I honestly forgot to tell them that." Kakashi admitted reluctantly. "I got too caught up in the fun."
"I thought it was quit clever of Uchiha-san to instruct his team mate to make faulty copies to negotiate with. Of course, they don't know that their old classmates weren't shown as much intel as they were." Iruka observed. He had been invited as a courtesy.
"Still, it is still a very powerful negotiating tool and they won't even try to use it." The Hokage said with a frown.
"It's a logical decision from their point of view." Kakashi defended. "They don't know that the 'homeless' nin are ignorant about the area and that their maps are still valid."
"We'll see." The Hokage said.
X
"…I'm finished with making the copies." Sakura announced. "Take a look and I'll tell you where the mistakes are. I think I was quit clever with it, if I do say so myself."
Naruto and Sasuke bowed over the map and compared the real deal with the copies.
"Smart." Naruto agreed with a wicked smile.
"They'll never realize it until they're dead." Sasuke agreed.
"You don't see it do you?" Sakura deadpanned.
"No." Naruto agreed.
"Even with my abilities, the map seem identical." Sasuke added.
Sakura rolled her eyes before forcefully pointing out the mistakes and eventually the boys got it.
"Now I get it." Naruto said honestly.
"As do I." Sasuke agreed.
"Good." Sakura said with a nod. "Now, I'm going to make another copy, identical to this one." She pointed at the faulty map. "I'm giving that to Sasuke so it would make it harder for them to guess which the real copy is."
"No." Sasuke disagreed.
"If the enemy discovers that we both have copies of the map, then it wouldn't be too farfetched that Naruto has a copy as well. The fact that his has a seal on it, would suggest that his is the real deal. No, I don't think that the both of us having a copy would be a good idea. It would be a good strategy in another situation though." Sasuke explained.
"So how do we disguise the fact that Naruto has the real deal then?" Sakura asked. "If all three of us had a copy, it would make it harder for them to be right."
"But the seal would give them a big clue." Sasuke repeated impatiently.
"Guys, we need to relocate." Naruto said suddenly. "Call it a gut feeling, but I think the hide-outs we prepared were compromised."
"But we've kept part of our supplies there." Sakura objected. If they were compromised then they would have to start rationing already. Far sooner than anticipated.
"Why?" Sasuke asked shrewdly.
"If we are to consider this a real scenario, then we have to consider that everything is compromised. Prepared hide-outs… Hidden supply packages… Our communication system. Who is to say that… 'monitor' won't make our lives more interesting by using the camera's to make our lives harder?"
"That's more paranoid thinking then I d'like though." Sasuke responded.
X
"Damn it Kakashi!" The Hokage roared. "What did you do to make them that paranoid…? They're right that we were planning to use the camera's to drive up the pressure but that's irrelevant!"
"If paranoia makes them see beneath the underneath, then I'm not seeing a problem." Kakashi defended himself.
"You don't know do you?" Iruka observed.
"Not a clue." Kakashi admitted.
"But I have only been a teacher to them for less than two days so give me a break damn it!"
"The man has a point." Shikaku observed.
"Indeed he does." Chōza agreed.
CHUNK CHUNK CHUNK
"AH! Where did you come from?" Iruka yelped, having thrown a handful of shuriken and kunai on instinct alone.
"That wasn't very nice." Chōza said. Having caught all shuriken and kunai effortlessly.
"Here you go, Iruka-san." The man said with a smile. Iruka gulped, accepted the weapons only for them to fall apart when he held them.
"Oh, my bad." Chōza laughed cheerfully. "I don't know my own strength."
Except that the kunai and shuriken had clean cuts through them. Either the man had a very powerful wind affinity, letting him cut them to pieces effortlessly or, and this was more likely he had cut them just enough for them to hold together long enough for Iruka to accept them;
"Show off." Kakashi remarked.
"Why thank you." Chōza responded cheerfully. "But I don't know what you are talking about."
"Children, play nice." The Hokage remarked idly.
"Oh, look they're on the move!"
X
Sakura, Naruto and Sasuke were moving away from their campsite and were moving towards the border of zone C. "Remind me why we are going into a zone that Kakashi warned us away from?"
"Because that's what we would do if this were real." Sasuke repeated patiently.
"I've studied the scrolls my clan had since the moment… IT… Happened." Sasuke explained. He had tensed for a moment before relaxing again.
"I know strategy. I know tactics. I've studied them. I memorized them. I played games with them and tried to figure out what would happen in what if scenario's." A pause.
"Sakura helped with the latter because it's hard doing that on you own. The point is that the enemy isn't supposed to have any intel of the area. We can either assume that everything is compromised or we can begin trapping the two zones and hold up in a location after clearing it out. If we're careful then we should be able to survive well enough."
"Okay, I get that much, no need to get testy on my account. I know I was the one that pointed it out in the first place, but remember what Kakashi said? They're supposed to send low level cannon fodder out first. Trapping the hell out of everything would be good strategy. You know? The stuff you're supposed to have studied?"
"Enough!" Sakura snapped. "Naruto, calm the hell down. Sasuke isn't at fault here. Kakashi gave us all the intel we could possibly need. A shame we must ignore the camera's though." Sakura complained.
Team seven had managed to destroy a total of two camera's before the Hokage had made a area wide announcement.
'NO CAMERAS ARE TO BE DESTROYED. TAP THEM TWICE TO SYMBOLISE ITS DESTRUCTION AND IT WILL BE IGNORED.'
"Well, at least we know that they would use the camera system to make our lives harder." Naruto said cheerfully.
"A small comfort though. We don't know each other well enough to develop our own hand signals."
"No." Naruto agreed. "But I think that by the end of this, we'll have the beginning of it or something close to it."
Team seven stopped moving as they reached the first border between zone D and zone C.
"I changed my mind." Sasuke said suddenly. "Let's make several outposts near the border and start trapping the hell out of it. I want to avoid going in there unless I really have to." He shuddered.
"I don't like how it feels either." Naruto agreed slowly. "Imagine how zone B or even zone A must feel."
"I don't want to." Sasuke said flatly. "Please don't make me imagine what those places must feel like."
Team seven moved away from the border again and looked around for good locations. Eventually they found several close to each other.
"It would be a good bluff." Sakura remarked. "They could be connected underground, each leading to different locations and each having the door connection to the other bunkers hidden away. So if one bunker is compromised, the others are still potentially safe."
"Time for me to work my magic." Naruto muttered.
He closed his eyes and removed his sandals, ignoring the curious looks of his team mates. That was the downside of connecting with the earth. He couldn't wear any kind of shoes. Not even sandals.
Then he stamped the floor and a tunnel opened up. He jumped into the tunnel and used another trick he had learned to make a small cavern. A few seals later created several weak sources of light.
X
"Kakashi?" The Hokage said calmly.
"Sir?"
"Did you not tell them about the zone S that we think is underground?"
"Yes Hokage-sama."
"And did you not tell them that making underground bunkers nilly willy wasn't allowed?"
"No sir. I didn't think of telling them the obvious sir." Kakashi responded flatly.
"Give the man a break, Hokage-sama." Shikaku remarked. "The tunnels are supposed to be at a much lower depth."
"That's the keyword here isn't?" The Hokage said. "Supposed."
"Who is to say that they won't stumble on those tunnels? Who is to say that they won't sense the breach in the seals? We should abort. The risk of those abominations escaping the tunnels is too much of a threat!"
"Wait a moment Hiruzen."
Everyone in the room, except for the Hokage himself froze.
CHUNK CHINK CHONK (times a hundred) and the 'intruder' caught all kunai and shuriken effortlessly and without any trouble.
"That wasn't very nice. You're lucky that I'm in a good mood or I would return these things in kind. As it is, I'm accepting these as gifts. So thank you." Everyone knew that they hadn't been meant as gifts.
"Danzo." The Hokage said flatly.
"What are you doing here?"
"When over two dozen alarm seals were activated, and some inquiries informed me that number forty four was in use by freshly graduated genin, I had to know what the deal was. So…"
"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU THINKING HIRUZEN?" The man shouted. Danzo, along with the Hokage's two team mates were the only ones that would dare raise their voice against the Hokage.
"I'm thinking that Kakashi was very impressed by the genin of team seven. He approached me to give them a test under fire. I agreed. Some brainstorming later and this was the result."
"Including a possible breach into THOSE tunnels?" Danzo demanded.
"I was about to abort when you interrupted." The man said calmly. "So if you don't mind…?" It was phrased as a question but it was anything but. Nobody sane would dare to object to such a thinly veiled order.
"And I asked you to wait for a moment." Danzo rebuked gently.
"Talk and make it fast then. My patient is getting thin even with you."
"Lock down Konoha, start mobilizing our entire shinobi corps currently in Konoha and call it an exercise."
"…"
"Why would I do such a thing like that?" The Hokage asked.
"Because if… Those foolish little genin have already breached the underground security seals. We would need a significant amount of people to drive them back underground."
"…Make it happen. Call it a randomly called exercise. Authorize a small compensation for any client we may have waiting currently. Say, D ranks get ten percent off, C ranks get twenty, B ranks get twenty five and A rank and above get a onetime applied thirty percent."
"As you command Hokage-sama." Danzo responded. Then the man was gone.
"It's about to get interesting." The Hokage remarked idly.
X
End
Wow. I wrote all of this in a single day. That's incredible to me! I hope you liked it though!
Posted on 11/05/2017 and edited to correct small mistakes on 12/05/2017
Final word count: 5.083 give or take a few dozen.
