The New and the Old
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Chapter 4 Doton: Mountain no Jutsu
Naruto stopped pumping chakra into his seals instead preferring to respond to whatever his opponent came up with. Doton: As soon as the words left Sakumo's mouth Naruto sped into action. He ran left still flashing through seals. He opted for a versatile water style because even though earth was stronger in the elemental cycle he could incorporate the weather into his technique. Doko, Sakumo said as he slapped his hands to the ground. The earth exploded upwards and broke into head sized clumps. As the rain hit, it morphed into mud. The river of mud carried away the small abandoned village that they had been fighting around. It quickly became a torrent of mud that obscured his vision of Sakumo. This was not good. He could do anything while the mud was between them. Finishing his fifty one hand seals he said, Suiton: Karyu Kabe.
He spewed water from his mouth by the gallon. As the water came from his mouth it formed a vortex that flew into the river of mud and absorbed it sucking the water from the jutsu becoming bigger. The jutsu stopped altogether and it became a dry heap of rock once more. Naruto's jutsu scooped up the rocks and began spinning them within his ow jutsu. He directed the vortex upwards, allowing him to see the spot where Sakumo stood. He was gone. Before he could began to search for him a sandaled foot entered his vision.
The kick to the face sent him sliding into the mud. Looking up from the ground he saw a fireball heading towards him. Sakumo had not said a word. It was also only half a second, too quick for the twenty nine seals involved in the normal fireball jutsu. Sealess and silent. Too cool. Chin parallel to the ground he thrust his arms forward. Palms flat as if to catch the fireball. The vortex floating above his head arched down and quenched the fireball, slinging the rocks it had scooped up from Sakumo's jutsu. Naruto flipped to his feet, watching as Sakumo weaved through the onslaught. He ran to Sakumo eager to finish the battle. He had things to do, people to kill, places to see. Or something like that. Sakumo was ducking low to the ground and then springing up. He hopped off a boulder larger than his body and flipping, sliced another one in two with his glowing sword. As he was completing his flip, still in midair, he noticed something white on the ground. As soon as his feet touched the ground he jumped back and an explosion effulged the area he had been standing in. He hid with his back to a crumbling stone wall.
The rest of which was carried away in his jutsu. An eagle flew overhead watching the proceedings.
The boy appeared in front of him leg raised and so he ducked. The sidekick sailed over Sakumo's head and through the stone wall. Naruto swung his leg back around and brought it down in an axe kick. Sakumo dove behind him and rolled to his feet. Naruto pulled his leg from the crater he had made of the wall and wiped mud from his black sleeve. He then moved his head to the side as Sakumo's fist sailed by. He grabbed the arm and flipped him over his shoulder through the wall of another house. Naruto peered into the dark house. Like the rest of the village this house was abandoned. Plants covered the house so much he could barely see the house underneath. The wooden floor was waterlogged and molding. The walls were made of a grey stone but had degraded so much the wooden framework was visible. He imagined it as it once was, a house someone lived in and cherished. Suddenly Sakumo swung from an exposed beam and dropkicked Naruto in the stomach. He completed his swing backflipping and landed on his feet. Naruto shot from the house and skid in the mud before flying through two walls of a house. Naruto lifted himself to his knees his armor clanking. The old house couldn't take a man flying through its walls and it finally succumbed to age. Collapsing in on itself in a stone and wood heap. Sakumo shunshined to Naruto's location, feeding his sword chakra, lighting it with a blue-white glow. About to run forward and finish it Sakumo held his ground. He saw a strange symbol on the shoulder of the armor. He sucked in a gasp. Why hadn't he seen it before? The white spiral on the shoulder pad.
"Uzumaki - san?" he question.
The boy, still on his knees, craned his neck to look up at him, a startled expression on his face. So his hunch was correct then.
The surprise slowly seeped out of the boy's eyes.
"What," Naruto said cautiously.
"Why are we fighting?"
Naruto looked at him like he was touched in the head.
"No, I mean, I know I attacked you first and all but I thought you were a spy."
We're allies, we don't have to do this. The newly revealed Uzumaki didn't seem to believe him so he turned his left arm to face the Uzumaki. He showed off his short white sleeve that had a red Uzumaki clan symbol on it.
"I saved your clan's princess, I'm a Meiyo aru Gesuto, none of that rings a bell?"
Naruto squinted at his clan symbol displayed on Sakumo's arm. The history books didn't say anything about that sleeve, nor the saving of anyone. If he were from this time he would know what Sakumo was talking about. He would have to resort to The Rulebook. Rule number nine, Deny, everything. Naruto got to his feet with his back to Sakumo. He shifted so his shoulder was prominently displayed. Pointing to his forehead with a thumb and an innocent expression on his face Naruto said,
"What do you mean Sakumo-san I'm from the Katanagakure,"
Sakumo eyes slid to the black metal forehead protector that had a katana symbol on it. He swore it wasn't there before. His gaze went to the side of the armor where the clan symbol was. Before he could confirm or deny his thoughts he was jerked out of his thinking by a horrible shrieking that came from behind a rock. The shrieking gradually faded and a bird flapped away. He looked at the armor once more. It was a smooth flat surface that had nothing on it. He couldn't seem to keep his eyes on the shoulder pad too long and so he stared at the forehead protector. He had never heard of the Katanagakure before but the lands were big and wide. Still though. He narrowed his eyes. He was sure of what he had seen but somehow Uzumaki-san had changed the armor and fabricated this story. It wasn't a genjutsu to his knowledge because he'd already flared his chakra and the headband stayed where it was. He couldn't fathom how this happened.
Naruto let a silent breath escape his lips. If Sakumo knew this was a genjutsu he would freak and go all emo mopey again. Naruto did what he liked to call a double layer. While Sakumo back was turned to him, Naruto created two clones, one that henged into the forehead protector and the other to do a jutsu. He still had no idea how his clones could henge into solid objects, he made a note to find out why. Anyhow the second clone was created behind a rock to perform the Gama Bijutsu Genso : Go Matta Shiji Shuho on Sakumo. The Toad Arts Genjutsu were almost impossible to perform without a toad. This was the only one he could perform by himself. Most of the genjutsu required frequencies humans just weren't capable of. He wasn't sure what would happen if he tried to summon something. Since he wasn't that good at genjutsu anyway the technique was performed below normal standards but was still enough to make Sakumo think there was a bird flying away and for him not to notice his Uzu symbol. He couldn't let him find out his whole secret. Signing a snake seal Naruto focused.
"Gotcha Oji-san." Naruto smirked.
"I'm not old I just have silver hair how would you like it if,"
Sakumo felt a cold sensation crawling up his legs. Looking down he saw snake-like tendrils of mud slithering up his legs.
"Doton : Doro hebi complete," Naruto said. He drew his sword and contemplated what to do. He couldn't kill him that was a no go. He did suspect his identity, though he could never guess the whole truth. He couldn't capture him either. He didn't have the money or literal time for that. A memory seal was an option but he'd already intervened. He saved that familiar red haired man and plus the fact that no matter how strong his seal was, for a person of Sakumo's caliber there was a around a twenty five percent chance of him breaking the seal. Then the world would have to deal with an insane Kage level shinobi wandering Konoha. He thought up suicide when he was still sane for Kami-sama's sake. He didn't want to find out what an insane Sakumo Hatake could come up with.
Several seconds later Naruto looked up as Sakumo emitted a faint aura. Naruto looked at Sakumo who had his hands in an Ox seal. Naruto peered up at Sakumo's face, seeing his long bangs obscuring his eyes. Sakumo shook the hair out of his eyes. Naruto stared into the blue eyes of the man he knew had grey eyes.
His eyes widened as he realized what was happening. "Boom," it said.
Sakumo's clone exploded into a ball of lightning that covered Naruto head to toe. Sakumo watched from behind a small mud hill, glad the trap had worked. This fight was taking its toll. The Raiton Bunshinwas a jutsu he learned from a friend on a mission but he had modified it to include a trap. Once he made it he could explode it on command and it would leave whoever was caught in the blast a useless rag doll for the next day. He tested it on himself and so he was confident that it worked as good as he thought. He walked to the boy, standing over him. He was surprised to see he was still conscious.
Naruto lay on his stomach in the mud. Shaking and writhing in pain, struggling to control his body, lest he drown in the mud. Over his own cries he heard Sakumo approaching, the glow of his sword visible even in his torture. He let a good chunk of his chakra be converted to pure water. He retreated into his mind to concentrate. He imagined he was pulling the water in the ocean back. Like an angry animal preparing to charge. The ocean reeled back, giving plants, sea animals and long lost ships air once again. Uncovering the depths of the sea and revealing for all the world to see what it held. He pulled it back until the sea would be only a distant line of blue from the shore. Outside in the real world Sakumo observed water leaking from his opponent's body, forming a large puddle. He stepped back not sure of what was happening. Naruto piled the water into several hundred foot high wave. Sakumo had just decided to move back further than a meter when a stream of water hit him. He got to his feet wiping water from his eyes. He soon had to wade in the ever increasing water to reach the downed Uzumaki. Naruto let the water go, and he thought he heard a roar as the ocean was free to wreak havoc on whomever it chose. Sakumo was sent flying into the air as water exploded from Naruto like a flooded dam held captive far too long. Naruto returned to the real world and he realized someone was screaming. He could feel his chakra escaping from all his tenketsu in what he thought a rotation would feel like. Only he imagined a rotation being a lot more controlled, and just a smidge more comfortable. He then realized it was him screaming and feeling came back all at once. His whole body was convulsing as the lightning used the water as a conductor, super charging it but also depleting its hold quickly.
Naruto was releasing so much chakra it was visibly held him aloft. The chakra was forming deep blue shroud that extended two feet in every direction. Floating four feet off the ground his aura created a vortex of water swirling around him. Wave after wave gushed from him, sweeping away Sakumo's sacred grove in a turbulent tide of chakra infused water. Naruto lay on his back on the water. All the lingering lightning had been discharged from his system. His muscles felt raw and his nerves were probably fried. If he hadn't used the chakra shroud to speed up his natural recovery abilities he doubted he would have been able to move. He painfully flipped to his back and then shakily stood. He was standing on water that he knew. He'd created a lake.
"Wow," he breathed, "I knew I was awesome, but this."
Naruto felt Sakumo swimming up from beneath the surface of the water. It was like the water was an extension of himself. Like the water had other senses that he'd tapped into.
With this other sense he could see what he himself could not. He stumbled back a half step from the sensation of seeing himself from all directions. He felt nausea creep into his head from the ripples his back step sent through the water.
Sakumo burst from the water gasping and spitting water out of his mouth. He infused chakra into his hands and pulled himself on top of the water. The chakra Uzumaki-san released had eroded the ground away for eight hundred feet down. He barely made it to the surface and he hade to use chakra to propel himself before he ran out of air. Uzumaki-san looked a little green and so this was a prime time to attack. Rushing forward he swiped at the boy's leg, right above the knee. The water leapt up and blocked the short sword.
Naruto with Tatsumaki only half out of the sheathe stared incredulously at the water that had protected him. He hadn't done any hand seals or cast a jutsu. It acted by itself.
After wrenching his sword from the waters hold he slashed at Uzumaki's ribs and then ached his arm up and sliced a diagonally down at a shoulder.
Naruto did nothing to defend himself and the water leapt up to form shields blocking the strikes.
Sakumo jumped back and regarded the sentient water. All the water was produced by Uzumaki-san and so it probably retained some of his chakra, but automatic blocking. He couldn't explain that. Doing hand seals he attempted a water dragon with the water from the lake. Nothing happened but the jutsu continued to take his chakra. Eating more chakra than a water dragon normally took. So water jutsu while on the surface of this artificial lake didn't work either. He would have to lure him off the lake then.
Drawing on his rapidly emptying reserves Sakumo said, "Doton: Gureto Mogura Kozo-mono." From behind him three serpentine dragons made of earth and rock formed from the countryside. One went straight for Naruto while the other two went to the left.
Naruto leapt to the right as a rock dragon crashed into his position. The dragon removed its head from the water and roared angry its prey had escaped.
Naruto prepared a jutsu. His declaration of his jutsu ended with him confused almost as if he were asking a question. "Suiton: Mizu hoppu?" Before he even fully said the name of his jutsu the lake leapt up and became a thirty whips of water about a third the size of the dragons. Naruto thought about what he was about to do and the whips did it before he could try. The whips wrapped around the dragon and began strangling it. Where the water touched the earth dragon it steamed and morphed back into soft mud. Naruto felt the chakra being leeched from the dragon into him. The chakra ran along the water whips entered the lake and entered him through whatever was touching him, at the moment it was his feet. The rock dragon became cocooned in water, and then the whips dragged the inanimate dragon into its depths. A dragon came up behind Naruto, jaws open wide to swallow and crush him in its teeth. Naruto was about to do a reflexive rasengan when the water rose up and blocked it. The dragon crashed into the lake and didn't resurface. Naruto felt new chakra enter his coils.
Sakumo saw his dragons being taken down by the lake with no apparent effort on the Uzumaki's part. He directed the last dragon to blindside him, while the lake was occupied with the second one. The lone dragon was blocked by a wall of water. Sakumo saw his attack get blocked, so he forced enough chakra to perform the jutsu two times over and the dragon parted the water and rammed into the boy's side.
Naruto went skipping along the lakes surface. The dragon had nearly split his right arm down the middle with its sharp teeth. Between crashes on the lake the cut shrank as the lake healed him. By the time he hit the shore the cut was only eight inches long. Naruto lit his finger with fire chakra and ran his finger along it sealing it. He clutched his chest as he used the fire chakra. The fire affinity came from Kurama and it was great, when it wasn't burning him from the inside out. Every time he used it without Kyuubi to regulate the change the fire chakra fought with his wind and water natured chakra. He wondered what the situation with Kurama would be once he got to his time. He stood up as Sakumo shunshined to the shore and threw a volley of kunai.
Uzumaki-san deflected the kunai he threw with his katana. Sakumo turned around to the lake. It looked natural as if it had always been there. It was quiet undisturbed and still. It seemed the lake only protected Uzu-san in extreme proximity. Turning back to his adversary Sakumo started a series of hand seals. Bird - Ox - Horse - Rabbit - Bird, holding the last seal. Naruto thought he smelled metal as the legend pulled back his hand and thrust it at him. Lightning Style: electric jolts. A long streak of light burst from Sakumo's hand and branched out into a multitude of electricity energy.
Naruto was in a longer string and finished up right after Sakumo finished his. Dragon - Horse - Rabbit - Ox - Dog - Bird - Dog - Rat - Dog. Fuuton: Kuki no kyu . The thing he liked about this jutsu was that it didn't have to be lethal. It could be the size of a man and explode into a tornado or the size of a melon and induce several severe deep cuts. Naruto thrust his hand forward and a compressed ball of air about the size of a head flew at Sakumo. The ball shrieked like a banshee as it sliced through the air. The lightning intercepted the ball and it shrank to the size of a small apple. Sakumo grunted as the ball hit him and a gash spread from his armpit to his waist. A clone of Sakumo popped into existence and placed an electric blue hand on the long furrow. The long slash closed as the clone ran his hand parallel to it. Sakumo held the bird sign and continued his jutsu. Sakumo's clone ran around the electric jutsu on a course to Naruto.
Still faced with the bright electric jutsu Naruto attempted a great dual style jutsu. Defensive and offensive. Naruto hadn't seen the Suna ninja's hand seals so he tried it without. He put both hands forward, Fuuton: Kaze no Kabe. He'd been intending to create a wall of razor sharp air that would negate and overtake Sakumo's lightning while maybe getting the clone. What happened instead was a rectangular patch of air that shimmered and sang a low hum. He'd tried for twelve feet or so. It was only about waist high. He crouched behind it to wait out the virtual storm.
As the lightning hit his improvised shield, it resisted creating intense vibrations against his side as the lightning arcs fizzled out. The shield kicked up sizeable gusts of wind transforming the rain into stinging pellets against his face. Combined with the glare of the lightning he could have been flying through the clouds. Two weak bolts flashed past as the air wall finally collapsed and zapped him in his shoulder.
The bolts spun him around in half circle and he fell to a knee. He looked down to his right shoulder and arm he couldn't feel. The skin was burned black at the edges and rippling strands of muscle were out to the open air. He saw small sparks of lightning arcing from his shoulder to the falling rain. His arm twitched and vibrated uncontrollably. For a few seconds, the electricity set a blue glow awash over his face, giving it an ethereal feel. A spear of earth flew into his chest in the three seconds it took to examine his wound. It shattered as it hit his dark armor. Landing on his back he rolled out of the way of a second and sliced one in half with a hastily drawn Tatsumaki held in his only workable arm. The clone cast two more spears at Naruto proofing into smoke as its meager supply of chakra ran out. Naruto threw a five stared shuriken to intercept one and blew one off course with controlled wind chakra.
"Fuuton: Soyokaze o Katto ," Sakumo calmly said. Naruto scrambled to his feet as Sakumo swept his left arm left to right releasing nine vertical pillars of wind that followed his every move. As Naruto was occupied flipping and dashing out of the way, Sakumo began a jutsu.
Charging his leg with earth chakra he stomped the ground. "Doton : Gekido shi Tsunami Iwayama ," he roared. Where he stomped the ground, the earth cracked and a boulder the size of a house flew from the ground. He punched and before his fist hit the boulder it shot off like it had been propelled. He repeated this picking up the pace with each new rock. Sakumo slumped down, hands on his knees, sweating profusely and feeling proud of his original jutsu. Other than his Raiton one, this was his strongest Ninjutsu. In the span of five seconds he had created a wave of rock the size of a mountain, and it was raining down on his enemy.
Naruto looked up in shock at the new falling mountain in the middle of Ame. The wall was tall enough that he could not see the sky anymore. Only varying shades of brown. The wave was so high it had arched over him blocking the rain. Naruto looked behind him. By the look of that shadow he knew he couldn't outrun it. He guessed it was too late for preservation of the timeline. The maps would have to be changed after this one. He dashed to draw some seals on the ground knowing that Sakumo would not see his expert use of seals. He'd decided to hold off on seals as a last resort, one because seal masters were rare and he would be more easily identified like that. Two, he was just so dang awesome with seals it wasn't fair when he whipped them out. He finished his barrier seal and started hand signs.
Outside with Sakumo an eagle dove through the clouds and landed on Sakumo's shoulder. The rocks started to hit the ground and he struggled to stay upright. He was surprised by the power of his jutsu. It'd been a while since he last used it. He wasn't expecting to cause such an earthquake. He straightened up and regarded the fowl. He spoke to it knowing there was a Yamanaka on the other end. I need any available platoon. Suna seems to be retreating and I did not get a chance to take out the fourth armies general. The bird cocked its head. Sakumo sighed. Confirmed, the general of company four is still alive, I repeat Akazuna no papettomasuta is still alive. The bird wiped its beak with a wing. Sakumo replied, I had an interruption as you can see, gesturing to the still falling mountain of earth. The bird squawked. I know what you're thinking and no I did not go overboard. This guy totally warrants a burial. He infiltrated our village and, Sakumo's face grew dark, had vital information. He also seems to have an advanced healing bloodline and his chakra count is off the charts. I got a glimpse of his full capacity and it's about nine times mine when I'm full. The bird stared at him with wide eyes. Sakumo said, "I know right." He claims to be from Katanakagure but I've never heard of that. I think he might be a rouge Uzumaki. The bird nodded, pacified for the time being. The bird shook and then screeched loudly. It pecked him on the head taking a tuft of silver hair and flew west. He knew then the Yamanaka had released control to report in. Rubbing his head thoughtfully, maybe, a clan who could tell you to kill yourself sure did have a twisted sense of humor. He thought about the reason he had called for backup. The tide of rocks had already started to hit the ground long ago but he could still sense Uzumaki-san, not moving much but just hanging in there and that worried him greatly.
Naruto was panicking. He couldn't use any of his big flashy jutsu because then the whole world would see them and decide to mosey on down and check him out. He had a healthy respect for his strength but even he knew he couldn't take on four great villages at once. The barrier he had drawn was the same as the one he used on Madara not a day ago.
It was supposed to glow a flaming golden like he did in Kurama State version two. Right now it was a washed out yellow color from the strain off holding Sakumo's mountain from crushing him. Below the rocks it was pitch black. The barrier was the only way he could see, by it's sickly yellow glow. The barrier itself was buckling and sagging in the middle, dipping low enough that it forced Naruto to hang his head. The barrier was supposed to have been twelve feet high but measured around six feet. The barrier was designed to block all types of attacks. It stopped seal usage other than his inside the barrier and outside in a foot radius. It was resistant to physical attacks and had a burning feature thrown in for good measure. The special thing about the barrier was that it absorbed chakra at an amazing pace. As the rocks encountered the barrier they sizzled and melted away. The rocks bigger than his barrier, not so much. The barrier was melting anything it touched but the torrent never ended. Before it could fully melt it another rock took its place. Until it all stooped anyway because there were so many rocks piled on top of each other they weren't even touching the barrier. The barrier continued in vain to try and melt its obstacles. The house sized boulders just kept coming. Naruto decided now was a great time to test out his latest jutsu. He made a clone who held a ready to go Rasenshuriken just in case he failed and almost died. So, no worries. The jutsu he was going to test was inspired by the third Raikage. The lightning Nintaijutsu used by the two recent Raikages was in essence, pure genius mashed together with awesomeness and put in a lightweight portable ramen cup.
He decided to imitate their style with his own element, wind. He had been working on it ever sense he saw it in person, in his battle with the Third Raikage. Putting his left hand in a half ram seal (two fingers up) he fixated on his chakra. Bringing it to the surface till he could feel it bubbling beneath his skin. He converted it to wind and slowly let it come up past his skin. Naruto held the chakra close to his body, on guard so that it wouldn't escape. His clone saw a white aura one centimeter thick emerge from his maker. It was extremely hard to manipulate chakra outside the body. That's why shinobi changed chakra into an element and then let it out. You didn't see anyone spewing chakra and then changing it into fire. The barrier creaked again and Naruto's concentration shattered. The aura faded. He created six more clones so they could watch each other and have six times the experience. After a tense silent ten minutes broken only by the barrier's groaning death cries and the high whine of the Rasenshuriken, Naruto asked the clones "Ready to dispel?" He received a multitude of replies.
Yeah, Alright, I'm game, Lets do this, Yes.
One clone didn't say anything. Putting it out of his mind he dispelled the clones. He remembered how he lost control of the chakra but kept feeding the technique anyway, and then scratches appeared all over his body. He grimaced, that seemed bad. He remembered how he was calm and waited for the chakra to settle before attempting to gain control and how he achieved the wind nintaijutsu. He remembered two other quiet failures and then a bad one. He explored the bad memory. He attempted to find that feeling again and he lost control. He tried to reel the wind chakra back into his body and he succeeded. The wind chakra entered his body and uncontrolled sliced his organs into tiny pieces. He felt blood welling up in his throat and couldn't respond to the originals question. He was just about to fall over when he dispelled. Naruto paled and made sure not to attempt that, again. The last clone converted his chakra into wind and then coaxed it to the surface. He scanned his hand. It radiated a faint white glow. The others seemed to be moving in slow motion. He was as light as the wind, he was free.
Coming out of the clones' memories he put all the information together. The wind is a free being. Coax it and negotiate with it. Work with it don't take full control. And last but not least don't ever try to control it, if he wasn't controlling it let it go. Don't attempt to conserve chakra like that. Putting up his hand in a half ram seal he wished he could do a regular one. With the gash and the shock to his right arm it was useless. He mused these things as he sculpted his chakra. A faint glow spread from the tips of his fingers to his hand, his arm and then his entire body. Naruto attempted to turn around and celebrate
and the next thing he felt was his face being smushed.
Naruto's clone played with the Rasenshuriken in his hand, flipping and spinning it and every once in a while checking on his maker. When he looked up again at the original's back he could tell something was different. Scrutinizing him he noticed a faint white glow on him. He opened his mouth, "Hey boss you," He stopped for the original had disappeared. Wind rushed by him prompting him to turn around. He peered down at the original who had crossed the thirty meter barrier in a second and crashed into the other side. He spoke in a deadpan voice, "Does it work?"
Getting to his feet Naruto held his face where he'd smashed into the barrier.
Of course it worked I'm awesome, dattebayo. The clone said, "Does this mean I can go now?" The clone forgot about the spiraling ball of death in his hand and gesturing wildly with his hands accidentally pushed it into Naruto's side. The Rasenshuriken emitted a grinding noise and then half of it disappeared. The rest was absorbed into Naruto's aura brightening it and causing his aura to emit its own high whine. Naruto and his clone stared in shock, mouths on the ground. His clone chuckling, looked up and slightly to the left. "That would have been something eh, a clone killing his maker?" Naruto bopped him on the head dispelling him.
"Time to meet the sky again," he said. He pulled the seal keeping the barrier up halfway. The barrier flickered and split down the middle. The rocks that were on top of the barrier slammed down in the space they hadn't been able to occupy until now. Naruto wobbled as tremors raced through the earth. Managing to stand with mini earthquakes still going on he thought to try something. Walking close to a rock he put his hand forward. The rock was carved away in an exact rendition of his hand. It was ready, the Wind Style Nintaijutsu. He pulled up the rest of the tag and let the barrier fade. He'd call it Fuuton: Fujin's Yoroi. He thought that had a nice ring to it. Rocks crashed down on him burying him beneath tons of rocks.
A mountains worth.
Five minutes after the bird had gone his two platoons arrived. Twelve ninja decked out in full battle gear. The ninja observed the devastated landscape. There were craters dotting the landscape. One ninja remarked while scratching his head, "Wasn't there a small village at this location, and where'd that lake come from?" Another ninja walked beside him and whistled.
"Wow man, you really went full out on this one." He was referring to the humongous heap of rock and mud before them. The rockslide was still going in full force. It sent vibrations through the ground, sending a genin that had come along to his butt. The quakes continued for another five minutes. Finally they stopped. Sakumo beheld the new mountain he had created. To be clear, it was ugly, with many sharp edges made from mud and lots and lots of rocks. He was sure the perpetual rain would mold it into a softer more attractive shape. Might even grow trees and plants he mused.
A Joinin stepped up. He was in charge of this hastily put together team. He was five foot nine with hard black eyes and had a bandana wrapped around his head. He wore standard issue for a Konoha nin with an open flak jacket and a blue Joinin skin suit. He unsheathed one of his two tantos and picked his nails. The Joinin took in Sakumo's haggard appearance. He had a gash across his stomach that sedately trickled blood. His nose was crooked like it'd been broken and half his face was a big bruise.
"Sakumo," he said slowly as if he were tired, why have you called for backup?" "It seems you have already taken care of the intruder."
Sakumo sighed, he was out of chakra. He pointed at his mountain responding, "Because of that." A grinding noise started emitting from the inside of the mountain. The sound grew louder and the rocks started to shift. Twelve minutes later, Uzumaki-san walked out of his the mountain carving a tunnel that fit his exact shape. Even down to the spikes of his hair. Uzumaki-san seemed not to have cast a jutsu to tunnel out. He was puzzled. He was no more harmed than when he went in. The shinobi gathered there gasped.
"I'm out of chakra, you win."
Sakumo waited to see what the Uzumaki would do, while his companions looked in awe at the figure. Who was this boy to have beaten their White Fang and still have chakra to spare? Sakumo wasn't really all out of chakra. He saved enough for a shunshin or two and a few distracting jutsu. He could still escape, but he could no longer battle like they had before.
"Well I'll be going then," Naruto said.
All the ninja sweat dropped. Naruto turned to walk away. A ninja unsealed his demon wind shuriken and said, "Not so fast, take this."
The ninja was only a chunin and could be excused for his blatant stupidity. He seemed not to have noticed the way Naruto had escaped Sakumo's ultimate jutsu. Carving a tunnel out, with his face! The demon wind shuriken spun wickedly fast, the air whooshing from the speeds.
Naruto raised a hand to catch the shuriken when it encountered his Fujin's Yoroi. He had pumped chakra to his hand to harden it enough to catch the shuriken. After tunneling through the for so long mountain he had kept the Fujin on without thinking. The shuriken shredded itself into fine metal dust, the tips of either end flying behind Naruto as it had not touched his body.
Naruto put his hands behind his head smiling nervously, "Er, sorry."
The chunin choked on his tounge as the rest sweat dropped again.
"Okay then, bye!" Naruto said.
"Wait!"
Naruto turned back around, "What is it this time, more attempts to kill me?"
This time it was Sakumo, "What is your name?"
Naruto frowned, he shouldn't tell anyone his name. Especially in this time and age with the war and all. He should -
"I'm Naruto"
On the outside Naruto was calm with a slight eyebrow furrow, but on the inside he was screaming. His whole plan could crumble to pieces now. They knew his name and- Naruto calmed down. They knew his name. So what. That didn't mean they'd magically figured out his whole plan from that one tidbit of information. Nobody would connect some dude battling Sakumo Hatake, Legendary White Fang with a boy born some odd fifty years later. Even if they did what were they going to do, lock him up for being named after himself. He snorted.
"See ya, a ninja raised his hand, "Actually" he began. Naruto silenced him with a glare in his direction, "bye," he said gruffly.
Naruto did a chakra infused jump and then a midair Fuuton Shunshin, but he forgot about his Fujin's Yoroi again. The armor sped him up exponentially and so what the people with Sakumo saw was totally different.
The newly named Naruto, (he still suspected Uzumaki) jumped into the air and flew away. Sakumo lifted an eyebrow wondering why he hadn't done that from the beginning.
Naruto flew through the air. He was flying head first arms tucked into his sides. He was going so fast the wind pressed his hair flat to his head. Naruto whooped in elation but it was ripped from his mouth before he heard it. His wind armor kept him dry, shredding the rain before it could touch him. As he slowed Naruto realized he wasn't flying at all. His armor had just made him lighter and that accounted for the slow float to the ground he was experiencing. His wind armor was going on autopilot and once he started thinking about how well he was using it, it died. He started to fall rapidly still four hundred feet above the ground. His clothes were flapping in the wind and that was all he could hear. Naruto thought about what would happen when he hit the ground. Instead of a six foot hunk of awesomeness he'd become a Naruto puddle of goop. Naruto made sure his last words would be worthy of his death. Protect the ramen Kami-sama, Amen. Then he screamed.
Authors Note
Dang that was long. For me anyway. So what did you think? Review! For those of you getting tired of Ame, don't worry. I'm getting tired of it myself. Stupid rain. Once he ties up some loose ends Naruto will be leaving in the next chapter. If he doesn't become Naruto soup. Cliffhanger.
What did you guys think of Kakashi's Dad?
I tried to make Sakumo as great as possible while still having Naruto come out on top. He is the main character. No matter what Naruto's enemies do he always has one fallback, his shipload of chakra. Soooooo
Thanks for reading. This chapter just hit me, so don't expect the other chapters to be out this soon. Ten days at the most though. Peace.
P.S.
Still need a beta reader if anyone wants to just PM me.
Peace! (Again.)
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Jutsu library/ Names
Akazuna no papettomasuta – Puppet Master of the Red Sands
Meiyo aru Gesuto - Honored Guest
Katanagakure - Hidden Village of the Sword (literal translation - Give me the sword)
Tenketsu - Chakra points or Pressure points
Nintaijutsu - A combination of ninjutsu and tai jutsu, a type of fighting style used by the third and fourth Raikages. They cover themselves in lightning release chakra creating armor and increasing speed physical strength and reflexes. There are other Nin/Tai jutsu but these two are the most prominent and well known
Henge no jutsu - Transformation Technique
Kawarimi no Jutsu - Body Replacement technique / Substitution Jutsu
Rasenshuriken - you better know what this is!
Shushin, or Shunshin? - Flash step
Raiton Bunshin - Lightning Style: Clone / Alter ego
Raiton: Denki yure - Lightning Style: Electric jolts
Suiton: Mizu Hoippu - Water Style: Water whip
Suiton: Karyu Kabe - Water Style: Vortex wall
Doton: Doko - Earth Style: Moving Earth
Doton: Gureto Mogura Kozo-mono - Earth Style: Great Earth Dragon Structures
Doton:Gekido shi Tsunami Iwayama - Earth Style: Raging Tsunami Rock Mountain
Fuuton: Kaze no Kabe - Wind Style: Wind Wall
Fuuton: Soyokaze o Katto - Wind Style: Cutting Breeze
Fuuton: Kuki no kyu- Wind Style: Air's sphere
Fuuton: Fujin's Yoroi - Wind Style: Wind God's Armor
Gama Bijutsu Genso: Go Matta Shiji Shuho - Toad Art Illusion: Misdirection technique
Japanese Honorific Library (I need a better name, *Sigh*)
Oji - uncle or someone who acts kind of old, ex. doesn't look young, moralist, isn't trendy etc. Or a middle aged person
Otou - can be used as a standalone title and a suffix, means father
Oba - aunt/ middle aged woman - old people
Bo - a term of endearment used for young men and boys and only the male gender
Kun - used by those of senior status addressing those of junior status, or when referring to male children, teenagers, or friends. Kun is usually used with boys although it is not a hard rule. It can just as easily be used for a girl.
Senpia (pronounced Sempia) - used to refer to those of higher rank than oneself. A colleague with more experience is a senpia but one's boss is not senpia.
Kohia - the reverse of Senpia, kohia is used to refer to those of junior rank. Like Senpia it can also be used as a suffix and a standalone title. Kohia is rarely used and Kun is used in its stead.
Teme - literally translates to (you) but it is a very rude way of it. It is the equivalent of bastard or ***hole though that is not a direct translation
Sama - a markedly more respectful version of san, usually used to denote great respect and is sometimes used at customers, when used refering to oneself it denotes extreme arrogance or self-effacing (what does that mean?) as in ore-sama (my esteemed self)
Dono - means lord, usually to someone whom is held in great respect, only used on males
