I DO NOT OWN NARUTO
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"People talking"
'Peoples thoughts'
"Kyuubi Talking"
'Kyuubi thinking'
'Rax Talking'
"ZAMPO TALKING"
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In Iwa starting where I left off
"You fools! Do you actually think you can beat me?" Naruto said as he watched them charge him. The word 'stop' was yelled. So they stopped to see who interrupted. The Tsuchikage stood on the side of Tsunade. He looked at the two before speaking
"I always enjoyed people fighting each other." He stared at "Amoco" now. "But only if I gave the fighter permission to do so. I will allow this one though. Its not everyday you see one of the Legendary Sannin fight a traveler, if you are a traveler Amoco. Come with me if you wish to continue your battle." Naruto hated doing stuff if he didn't finish it, so he went. Tsunade was pissed that he would dare fight her, she also still thought of him as a threat. She and her assistant went too. Everyone that was on the street went to see a battle they might ever see again. He lead them to an arena, that was built from nothing but stone. It looked nice, though not better than the leaf village's arena, but it was bigger.
"You two go in the arena. When your ready, you may begin." With that said, Tsunade rushed first and slammed her hand into the ground eleven feet from Naruto, so he jumped back to avoid falling in the cracks. Shizune jumped on Tsunade's back to use her as a launch pad, as she jumped off, she shot some poison darts at Naruto. Easily dodged, he noticed she was headed his way. Once she got close, she swung a right handed punch, which he dodged and countered with a kick to her face. He landed on the side of a wall with his feet while she was sent falling towards Tsunade, whom was in the air because she jumped also. They collided together and fell on the floor. Naruto was going to jump off the wall to start offensive attacks, but he was transferred into his mind.
"Kit, what the fuck are you doing? I told you not to attract attention!" Kyuubi was mostly pissed because the brawl woke him up.
"I'm not attracting attention to myself. I'm just having a little spar." Clever, but stupid words that meant nothing to Kyuubi. "Anyways, the lady attacked me first. It seems she was aiming to kill me, but I can't sense any bloodlust from her. I can't tell why she's fighting me either." Naruto stood in front of the cage, like he was up for judgment.
"What did you do to cause her to be so angry? You must have done something!" The Kyuubi was now claiming false accusations on Naruto. Who couldn't defend himself because he thought she was fighting him for peeping on the bathhouse.
'Maybe she's mad because you peeped on the bathhouse, Naruto-kun' Great that Rax was there, but he told on Naruto. He didn't mean to tell the Kyuubi, but he forgot the Kyuubi had links to Naruto's mind.
"You are fighting to stay alive because YOU PEEPED ON SOME NAKED LADIES? Kit, I'm so…. Proud of you." It was low, but still audible to the two he was talking to.
"WHAT?" Rax and Naruto yelled in shock at the same time. Naruto's face was scrunched up, confused, disbelief, and shocked.
"Don't ask me anything, yet. You need to defeat that lady first. I remember her from somewhere, but I just can't figure out where. She will be hard to beat if she is as good as Kakashi. I will think about where she came from. Kit, you should use your clone or you wont win." After he said that Naruto was back into reality. He jumped back to dodged a punch aimed for his face by Tsunade. As he was going back through the air, he was kicked in the back by Shizune which sent him flying towards Tsunade.
'Man, Kyuubi-sensei is right! I cant fight these two while they are together. Rax you feel like helping me?' Naruto said as he dodged the first and landed a few feet away.
'Ok, but you have to feed me once we are done.' Rax jumped out of the backpack he was contained in. Everyone was shocked. They all were thinking the same thing "How is a fox going to be helpful?". Rax knew who Naruto wanted him to fight right when he came out. Rax ran at Shizune to claw her with his sharp claws. She dodged it, but ended up being on defense, seeing as the fox just kept attacking. Naruto was now one on one with one of the best female ninja's in the ninja world. She started a couple hand signs and screamed "summoning jutsu!". A giant slug appeared out of the puff of smoke. The slug looked at Naruto and shouted Acid Spit Technique. A lot of acid poured from the slug's mouth towards Naruto. He jumped off the wall just in time to avoid it. The wall didn't get melted or damaged, must have been the best stones in the world.
'Holy shit! That slug is going to vaporize me if I don't figure out a way to counter it!' He dodged another attempt.
'Naruto-kun, use your Zampo and mount the slug. You will be safe from any chakra based attacks.' Naruto did just what Rax said. He was now on the slug with Tsunade. Tsunade started up a chakra scalpel, forgetting what Naruto's wooden sword does. As she sliced at his chest, the chakra scalpel back fired and gave her a little scratch wound on her hands. Her hand exploded like last time, which sent her flying off the slug.
'Damn, I forgot about that bastard's sword.' She looked at her injured hand. 'I cant feel my right hand now. Was that Kid telling the truth about it poisoning my hand?' Her hand started to work again, though it was as good as it should be.
"Are you starting to feel the effects of the poison? I did warn you, did I not? I inserted chakra into your arm as it blasted with my Zampo. The thing is the poison effects is not able to be tracked with any jutsu or eye." Naruto smirked when her expression changed from anger to worry. "I said you couldn't beat me before we started the fight. My fox over there is basically ANBU ranked. Your summoning jutsu is also futile." As he said his last sentence, he stabbed the Slug in the back with the Zampo, making it explode in a puff of cloud.
"But how? How can you best me?" She looked angry again. She was playing around during the casino fight, but she was serious this time.
"My Zampo is designed for chakra manipulations and chakra instability." He looked where the slug was before he stabbed it. "Since I punctured you slug's flesh, It sent it's chakra all over its body like crazy until it was dispelled." Everyone in the arena now surprised and into the fight. They were starting to think that Amoco had it all in the bag now. They were impressed how he beat a Sannin with little to no effort. Without Shizune, it seemed like it was hopeless for the Sannin to beat him. John stared at the fight with much amusement. He was also happy how he knew a new celebrity. The fight between Tsunade and Amoco seemed like it was going to die down now. When Tsunade got up they wondered what she would do now, but hoped she wouldn't give up just yet.
'I see now. I need to get the fucking sword out of his hands, but how? He seems like he's the very confident "I can beat all" type.' A thought hit her. 'I got it.'
"Your so confident you can beat me? To tell you the truth, it seems like sword of your is doing all the work." She smirked when she saw Amoco's expression. Her smirk got even wider as he put his sword in his backpack and kicked it to the side. Naruto fell right into her trap, he was now at a disadvantage. She was better at taijutsu and her medical ninjutsu can kill Naruto, if one of his vital points were struck. Naruto decided to be more offensive, thinking he can beat her with speed. He charged with blinding speed. He was faster than her, but when he got close she, smashed the ground. This caused him to go off balance and lose speed. He tumbled right into a chakra enhanced punch, which sent him ten feet into a stone wall. The crowed was stunned and the Tsuchikage was disappointed for his stupidity. The Tsuchikage knew he was good, but he didn't know Amoco was vulnerable to stupid mind games. He even started to bet the crowed Amoco would win. Naruto crawled out of the hole his body created and fainted. She walked slowly to the kid, ready to do the last blow. There was nothing that could stop her from turning this kid to Swiss cheese now. As she closed in on him, the fox attacked Shizune with his most powerful attacks now, to get to Naruto.
Shizune kept trying to attack the fox as it tried to run to his master's aid. The fox had no time to deal with this women, so he started to get serious. He stopped heading for Naruto to finish the lady who kept stalling him. He opened his mouth wide and shot some fireballs at Shizune. The crowed was surprised. They didn't think an ordinary fox can do all that. Shizune stalled before dodging all the fireballs, which gave Rax the time for a jutsu he created. He took a deep breathe and screamed in his head, Ninja Art: Shinigami's Illusion. The jutsu didn't have a physical effect, it tortured the mind of the target. Shizune fell to her knees, holding her head while screaming in fear and pain. Rax now looked at Tsunade as she picked Naruto up from the ground to do the final attack. He ran as fast as he could towards Naruto, but he fell when he got half way from chakra exhaustion. The technique he used on Shizune took too much of a toll on his chakra reserves, since he didn't have that much chakra. He watched as she pulled her hand back.
"KIT! WAKE THE FUCK UP! BEFORE SHE HITS YOU! Kyuubi was banging all over his cell to wake the Naruto that laid on the outside of the cell. "KIT! YOU PROMISED YOU WILL GIVE OFFSPRING! YOU CANT DIE HERE ! NOT NOW!" Naruto just laid in near the Kyuubi's cell clearly knocked out to the point that he wasn't going to wake up.
'Naruto-kun…. I'm so sorry.' That was the last words he said before he saw Tsunade's punch go straight through Naruto's chest. Everything went silent as she held the lifeless body in here hands.
She slowly let go of the body to let the body fall to the ground and looked at the blood all over the wall and floor. She fell to the ground in fear and regret. Why she kill a person she thought to be a threat for the future when she had no proof. She couldn't move, she stayed in the same spot for five minutes. Everyone was still, not knowing what to do, they thought Amoco would pull out of it. They thought he would wake up before it, so no one tried to stop it. Tsuchikage's guards helped her leave. He also sent Shizune to the hospital. He didn't think that Amoco was going to die. He would have stopped the fight if he knew that. He looked at the body, disappointed of how the end was. The kid died because of his stupidity. The Tsuchikage called for some clean up men, who cares for the arena.
"Clean the mess up for me please. I want the body and the wooden sword examined." As he was about to walk off a man came up to him.
"Sir, the sword isn't here. Oh and what you want me to do with the fox?" He was hoping the Tsuchikage would say eat it if you want. He loved some fox stew.
"Let it run around in the forest nearby. Don't harm it or I will kill you. The fox seems to symbolize that kid. In honor of a great ninja, you must have something to have him be remembered by. I want him to be remember as a fox master. Spread the word, maybe we can also get some huge amount of money." He looked at the body. "I will give him a great funeral. I didn't think he would die, lose to her, but not die." The funeral he was going to set up was going to be expensive and spread news of it. The Tsuchkage thought of this moment as a chance to lift the economy of his weary village.
As people left, they sorrowed the kid. They all didn't know why, but they liked the kid even though they didn't know him. John looked at Amoco's body with sad eyes. They always say a great friend is hard to find and when you did find them, something always kept you apart from them. Whether it was fate or a trick. John walked back to the construction to see if the clones were still there. There was no clones, just all the construction workers walking to the site with sad faces. Why did she have to take this person away from them? The village was quite happy with Amoco, even though he only been there for a few hours. He and the rest of the construction workers felt guilty, felt it was their fault for his death. They pressured him into going to the bathhouse, if he never did go there he would still be alive. The village was back to the way it was now, dull and weak. They didn't have a great economy, so they had longer shifts than any other village, though Kumogakure was more deep in poverty.
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In Konoha tower two weeks later
"Hokage-sama, I have a report from Iwa. Its being sent to every village." Yamato passed the Hokage the reports.
The Hokage read the paper with wide eyes. His eyes now fixed on Yamato "Have you ever heard of a traveler named Amoco?" He asked with seriousness
"No, I never heard of that name before. Is that what the paper is about? What's so important about a traveler?" He really wondered why a traveler would be so important.
"It says he fought in a battle with one of the legendary three and closely won. It said he died because if his overconfidence, but died in an honorable battle." He looked at Yamato again. "Who do you think he fought?"
"Either Orochimaru or Jiraiya, seeing as Tsunade stopped ninja work for gambling. I would put my bets on Orochimaru though." He fingered his thumb and closed one eye to think more about it.
"Why Orochimaru?" The Hokage asked him as he pondered it.
"Orochimaru is the only one of the sannin who does ill work. He probably took out the guy because he didn't want to join him or the guy stood in his way." Well two thing was right in his statements.
"Ok, but I cant let him do that. I want you and your team to start searching in the new village and Iwa for Orochimaru." He didn't think Orochimaru would be in any of those places, it was a start.
"Yes, Hokage-sama" After his word he left.
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Academy
"Look, Ino-pig! Sasuke is mines, so stop staring at him while he is kunai practicing!" Sakura was so pissed, she had a vein in her forehead that threatened to pop.
"Forehead stop your stupid yelling! I'm busy staring at my future husband!" She was too busy looking at her crush to yell at Sakura. As Sakura was glaring at Ino, Shikamaru and Choji came outside to practice, since Iruka told them to.
"What a drag. Why do I even bother trying to be a ninja, when there is too much troublesome things I have to do to become one." He sat on the floor, next to the two girls.
"Want a chip Shikamaru? I got Barbecue ones this time" He asked his friend with a full mouth while passing him the chips.
"No thanks, I rather look at the cloud than eat chips right now. Choji, have you heard of a kid missing one year ago? I heard my dad and mom talking about some kid being kidnapped by some ANBU." He really wanted to know, who would betray their own village.
"Yeah, I heard of it from my parents too, but when I asked them they told me to not worry about it. That's when I lost my chocolate cookies." He stuffed some more chips down his throat. As he ate, Sasuke turned around and left to his mansion. The village was silent, but happy now that Naruto was gone. None of the younger generation didn't know about Naruto's kidnapping, but they were suspicious of how he never come to academy. They figured he gave up, especially since he failed a lot.
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In Iwa at a Graveyard
Though Iwa didn't have a good reputation after the Third Ninja War, they were not as cold hearted as everyone still seen them as. More than half of Iwa's citizens were there, watching the body be carried to its grave. They all threw flowers in the path the body was being carried to. When they got there the Tsuchikage started off the speech.
"Here will lay Amoco Neosho, a new guy to our village. He helped our economy and our dull village become a happy one. Though we didn't know him for more than one day, he showed us what life should be like. Though I don't think he was a traveler, I did think of him as the second best ninja I ever seen. He wasn't a bright kid when in a serious fight, but he has shown us to have skills better than myself. Anyone else would like to share their sorrow?" He looked around all the hands that had been raised. He pointed out to John to tell him he may come up. The Tsuchkage was nice, but this was mostly an attraction he set up. When he said skills better than himself, he was talking about other qualities. Many others came to talk about what they knew him by, but it was mostly the construction workers. Tsunade was out of Iwa as soon as she was able.
John was next, so he walked up on the stone to show himself to all others. "I thought of the kid like one of own. I wanted to teach him the manly ways, you get me? I didn't know that my foolishness would cost him his life. I never knew anyone to get that mad for just being a man. He was a great man." John was a sentimental guy, though he tried to decline it, everyone knew it was true. With that said they started to lower his body into the dirt.
'Naruto-kun, Kyuubi-sama, I'm so sorry for my weakness. I couldn't save you.' The fox sat by the people who watched the body be lowered. The fox was the based guest of honor. All an attraction in hopes to enrich Iwa, but not without sympathy.
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Dark Lord's Castle
Naruto looked at the place he was at. The place was so dark, cold, and soundless. He walked up a staircase until he got to a big chair. The chair had someone sitting on it, which you can only see as a shadow. Naruto just stared at the dark figure which seemed to be facing his way. Then eyes popped out of the shadow, the eyes was a red color which seemed to glow. The shadow started to speak now.
"So…. This is the boy who I loaned my power to, yet he loses to a normal person. Ahhhh, Tsunade is who you lost to. Why have you disregarded your position?" It was clear that he wasn't asking. Naruto just stared back and opened his mouth.
"I didn't disregard my position. I just wanted to show her I can beat her with my own…" cut off by the Dark Lord.
"Your own cockiness? Many like you I have given a power that many can never think of, yet you lose to a women. You foolish little brat, you are undeserving of a power like mines. But I guess that's to be expected from a kid. Don't think you can beat people by throwing away your advantages. Why didn't you use my power to finish her off quickly?"
"Your power is too risky to use and I prefer to use my own strengths to beat my opponents. You just want me to use your power so you can steal my body. Now tell me where I am!" Naruto demanded the Dark Lord.
"You don't fear me? Many cannot beat me, not even the Kyuubi. I will tell you where you are though. You are dead and now may spend an eternity in darkness."
"IM DEAD?" Naruto's mouth was as wide as possible and his eyes open.
"Well half way dead. Did you think this was a dream? You are only on the brink of near-death because I summoned you to give you a chance to live a life of your choosing. I will make you a double deal, but if you accept and fail it, you will burn in hell for all eternity. Worse than staying in my home. Do you accept?"
"First tell me what the deals are." Naruto waited for the answer.
"Hehehehehe…. Do you think I will tell you the deals before you accept it? There is nothing you need to worry about. You only go to hell." He waited for the obvious answer.
"If the deal has nothing for me to worry about then I rather stay dead." Naruto stared at the Dark Lord, trying to trace any emotions in him., but it was blank and unreadable.
"The two deals are: you are to kill Orochimaru for stealing something from me and for you to kill a guy I wont name because you wont need to fight him for a long time. In return if you pass the deals ill grant you and your fox Immortality. Also I will grant you permission to choose any other person you wish to live as an immortal. Do you accept these terms?"
"Yes, but I want to know how to control your power. It takes over my body too fast." Naruto hoped he would get and answer.
"There is two secrets to contain my power. I will not tell you them, though I will say chakra is your friend when using it. You have to figure out the two secrets on your own. See you, whenever you die again…"
"Wait, has my henge dropped?" He was worried that people were now torturing his body.
"No, I knew you needed to keep the henge going, so I supplied it with chakra." With that Naruto flashed out of the Dark Lord's Castle
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In Iwa at the Graveyard
As the body of Naruto was being lowered into the pit, lightening struck his body. In an instant after the lightening strike, Naruto came to life. He struggled to breathe and felt the pain in his chest that he had when Tsunade had punched him. The people watched in shock as the dead was back with the living. They hurried to pull the robes up to smother the guy with love. As everyone, including Rax started to lift him up and hug him while asking a bunch of questions.
'Is this the feeling people get when they are loved? If it is then I never want to leave this place.' People saw Amoco crying right in front of them. They started to think they were hurting him. Naruto showed them with a face expression that he didn't care that his chest pains hurt. It was the only moment where Naruto felt loved by his own species.
"Kit, you one lucky bastard. Look how much they loved you. I never saw this type of affection of happiness. Kit, don't ever leave these people." Kyuubi was too busy watching people love Naruto for the first time. Naruto's emotions rose, so high that his henge dropped. People stopped hugging to see a boy with blond hair and blue eyes. They started to hug him even more now. They knew who he was, but they didn't care? The Tsuchikage looked at Naruto with shock.
"You are a kid? You bested a Sannin until you let your stupidity take control of you? So, you are Uzamaki, Naruto ?" The Tsuchikage was now shocked to no ends. Though everypme has been asking questions and had hundreds more, they could only know this by heart.
"Yes I am Uzamaki, Naruto . I'm not Amoco Neosho. I put up that henge and fake name because I didn't think you guys would want me here. Speaking of it, why a lot of rumors say you guys want me dead?" He wondered.
"Because your father made a fool out of our village Tsuchikage at that period of time, but we got over with that revenge and hatred. We now see your father as a hero and you also.
We stationed spies in the leaf village to make sure that our hero's child lived on." the Tsuchikage was honored to see Naruto. His smile turned into a frown when he realized Naruto wasn't his ninja. "If you want me to, I can send you an escort to take you back to the leaf…." Naruto cut him off by screaming.
"NO! I don't want to go back a place full of hatred towards me. I want to be a ninja though, cant I stay here?" He had pleading eyes. Everyone smiled, but wondered why he would want to stay in the second poorest village.
"Yes, but you will have to start as a genin when your twelve , regardless of your fighting skills. This also will show who you really are since the next chuunin exams is being hosted in the leaf village. You might be shown as a traitor to….." cut of again by Naruto.
"I don't give a fuck what they see me as anymore!" That stunned everyone, hearing a kid that small cursing, he had no manners. Kyuubi didn't really focus on word usage. I rather pledge loyalty to a foreign village who loves me than my own village who hates me! I can also help build up your buildings in a cheaper way, which will greatly benefit my new village." He had a huge smile on his face, which made all near him feel warmth in their hearts.
"Ok, but you will need to heal first before you do anything. When you are healed I will get you a team when your eleven. Until that time, I will train you as a guardian of your new home." He Tsuchikage smiled at Naruto as the rest of the crowed cheered for the good news. Another attraction, but he didn't actually think he would bond with the kid.
(I know my characterization is kind of like that, but do you guys really want me to write chapters full of characterizing? I can make more detailed characterization, but don't know if it will bore anyone since its only reading detail. Also I am kind of plot rushing : ). )
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One year later in Konoha
"Hokage-sama, I bring news from some of our spies in Iwa." Yamato pulled his mask off. He didn't look happy at all. The Hokage grabbed the paper and started reading it:
To Whom Ever It May Concern:
Tsunade was mildly injured in a fight with a travel known as Amoco Neosho in Iwa. It took me this long to send it because I had been chased half way across the ninja world by some ANBU. They wanted the scroll for some reason. I cant go back to Iwa due to them strengthening their security. I have heard that they had increased their economy and military. This was a rumor, but I thought they might be up to something. I'm being chased by the ANBU again, so I shipped the message by ninja-mailing people.
It had no label of direction on who it was to contact to secrecy reasons. "Iwa, is building military? I'll tighten security a little more to make sure we are not being spied on. Yamato, have you found Orochimaru's hidden base yet?"
"Yes, Hokage-sama!" he answered. He hoped he was not going to say what he thought was going to come next.
"I want you to tell Kakashi to lead twenty-nine ANBU, including you to go on an assassin mission, S-ranked."
"Yes Hokage-sama" he left to gather the team the Hokage had listed to go. His frown was only not visible due to the mask.
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Hitting the border of the sound village
"So its going to be your ninth birthday next month, eh Naruto-kun?" The girl asked Naruto. She was a beautiful eight year old girl who's birthday was in December. She had brown hair and black eyes. They hopped through the trees to get to their destination.
'Naruto-kun, I'm going to give you a gift you will never forget.'
"Yes Mona-chan, but it will be the first ever celebrated." They had known each other since they met in the hospital when Naruto came back to the living world. Naruto liked hanging out with her all the time. He noticed how she was staring at him. "Mona-chan, why are you staring at me like that?" She looked away fast and changed the subject. "Konan, how far are we from the destination?" She stared at the black haired, white-eyed nine year old boy as he looked with his, Byakugan.
"We are just ten minutes away, and I sense a lot of chakra signatures headed towards us." The team stopped on the same branch.
"Shouldn't we set up a sneak attack instead of just showing ourselves?" Mona always wanted to have the advantage on their side.
"She's right, but I don't feel like hiding." Konan said as he stood his ground.
"Konan, you fool, we don't know how much…." She was cut off by Konan, who was showing off his Byakugan.
"Thirty-one. that's how much there is." Naruto just stared in the direction he felt the chakra coming from.
"Their chakra tells me they are at least ANBU level." They all just stood there as Naruto made his Zampo appear from the thin air.
"Put your mask on team. This is mission is blown in the dust if we are revealed!" They both listened to Naruto, their team leader. Right when they were done the thirty-one ANBU members stopped on trees that was a little distant from the three they stood before.
"Who are they? Yamato yelled out.
"They are children, they probably don't mean us any harm." The new ANBU started to relax and yelled out "Hey are you guys friend, foe, or neutral?" It was Naruto's turn to yell out.
"Depends what your standing is. If you are anything, but our village people then you are foe." The new ANBU felt like he been out smarted by a child. He jumped up at the three with sword in hand.
"NO! You idiot! I didn't command you to attack them!" The New ANBU ignored Kakashi and went for a stab to for the boy. As his sword almost touched Naruto's chest, it was stopped by Mona. She grabbed the sword and kicked him in the face, which sent him flying to his team. Naruto started some hand signs. Fire Style: White spit fire! The ANBU readied to dodge whatever might come.
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