Konoha's midnight flash

by Jacobus Negromante

Naruto is taken at the age of five to be raised in isolation. Everyone is told of the secrets of his heritage and Naruto grows up learning all of his parent's tecniques to kill a certain man...Super Naruto

4. The Rise of a God

Chapter 4: The Rise of a God

Disclaimer: I don't own a god damn thing

Forest of death, Namikaze tower, seven years later

(!BANG!)

"AAAAHOLY SHIT!" Akio Haruno sprang to life, leaping off the king size bed he had been sleeping on, knocking over an expensive looking nightstand, and startling the hell out of his wife, who had somehow managed to sleep through the tremendous explosion and the quaking of the entire tower, but not her husband's scream. "What the hell was that?"

"Well, if I had to guess I'd say that boy is screwing with the laws of physics again. Now stop screaming and go make sure he doesn't kill himself."

Akio watched his disgruntled wife roll over and get comfortable again before forcing himself to get up and see what Naruto managed to blow up this time. Naruto had been busy over the past seven years. After the incident with the traitorous chunin, Naruto poured himself into his training, especially in regards to his father's work in Fuinjutsu.

One day he showed one of his 'projects' to his grandfather figure, Sarutobi, and his immediate response was to register Naruto as a Shinobi and put him to work in the research and development department. For whatever reason, Naruto's most recent project kept causing massive explosions, which Akio wouldn't mind too much, except that his daughter Sakura likes to train with Naruto and sometimes ends up collapsing before they have a chance to leave, which leads to a night spent inside Namikaze tower and, inevitably, explosive awakenings at six in the morning.

Akio finished getting dressed and started making his way towards the vault, where Naruto does most of his research. On the way, he bumped into an attractive purple haired young woman in a tan trench coat, a mesh bodysuit and an orange miniskirt.

"Hey Anko, going to see what Naruto blew up?"

"Nah, I don't even want to know at this point. I'm just getting up 'cause I've got a mission today. And it's out of the village! Woohoo! I'm free from that crazy little brat! Maybe it'll be a long one. I might even get to kill somebody!" And with that, the slightly psychotic woman walked away, whistling to the thought of future carnage.

After the incident seven years ago, Sarutobi decided that Naruto needed a more permanent guardian and Anko was just the right amount of crazy for Naruto to be able to relate to her. Of course, being Naruto's guardian meant that she was usually stuck in the tower. She had mostly been working with the torture and interrogation department, which allowed her to work while staying in the village, but Anko hated being grounded, and as a tokubetsu jonin specializing in assassination, she felt like her talents were being wasted. So, as Naruto grew older and more powerful, she began to outright demand more and more missions outside the village, and was extremely happy every time she got one.

Shaking his head, Akio continued on his way towards the basement, passing his daughter on the way.

"Good morning Sak-"

"Ehhhh"

"Would you like some breakfast-"

"EHHHHHHHHHHH!"

"(Sigh)"

Oh the woes of raising teenage warriors…

Akio just kept walking, reaching the secret entrance and making his way down the stairs. When he reached his destination, the first thing he noticed was that the door to the lab was blown off. The lab is a room off to the side of the vault that Naruto added a few years ago. The room is built to be indestructible, that way Naruto could play with the laws of physics without risking the various books and scrolls in the vault, which are only protected by high powered Fuinjutsu and glass, which in the face of Naruto's high powered Fuinjutsu, might as well just be glass. He still trained in the vault of course, and all finished products were stored there to keep them safe. The lab was just a safe place to make a mess.

Walking through the now empty door frame, Akio sighed at the sight of several dozen Narutos gathered around a charred metal table that was actually melting in several places, completely calm and discussing whatever just happened as if it was your average science experiment.

"Maybe we could just add the stabilizer separately, that way it doesn't blend in with all the complicated stuff and we can focus on strengthening it on its own."

"No, the stabilizer is fine, the problem is we put it in the wrong place…"

"Oh come on, we've moved it around like seven times now, it's obviously not doing enough to keep the blended chakra from exploding like it wants to. We need to improve it before we end up needing another new table."

"Okay wait, what if we just keep the chakra separated until it's done converting, then just blend it and let it explode?"

"That wouldn't allow anyone to utilize the chakra though. You could make a bomb, but that isn't all we wanted to accomplish here…"

Not knowing what the hell they were talking about and being really annoyed that he was woken up by an explosion, Akio decided it was time to interrupt.

"Oi! What the hell Naruto? Why can't you blow things up at a reasonable hour?"

"Oh, sorry about that. I couldn't let myself sleep, so I had to keep myself busy and I figured, while I'm awake, I might as well make some real progress on this. The old man really had high hopes that I could complete it… Hehehe, sorry."

"(Sigh) And why, exactly, could you not allow yourself to sleep?"

"Oh, that's another project I'm working on. Speaking of which, the original is in the vault."

The clone tossed him a bloody three pronged kunai and they all resumed their conversation about what went wrong. Akio left the lab and opened the vault door with the kunai, tapping his foot impatiently as the giant door took its time opening. When he could finally enter, he saw Naruto sitting in a lotus position on the floor with a scroll wrapped around his head.

"Damn, no progress."

"What the hell were you doing in here that made you stay up all night and blow up the lab while everyone was sleeping?"

"Oh, this thing." He said as he started to unwrap the scroll from his head. "I've finally managed to isolate and measure the chakra effects in the brain while a person sleeps, so now I'm trying to make a seal that does the same thing faster. If it works, a person could experience an entire night's sleep in a few minutes!"

"Well stop messing with the laws of nature and get ready. A hawk delivered this last night; the Hokage wants to see you today."

He tossed a small scroll at the young madman and started to walk away.

"An official order… That's unusual; I usually get a friendly invitation."

"And take us home! Sakura has academy today!"

Naruto just smirked, amused at having so thoroughly annoyed somebody who really can't do anything about it. For a moment he mused that he might be turning into an asshole, then he stopped caring and headed up to one of the many bathrooms.

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A half hour later
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Naruto exited the bathroom wearing his custom made battle suit, which consists of black steel toed combat boots, a pair of black shinobi pants that was almost literally covered in pockets, a belt that held three weapon pouches and a katana, all of which was black, including the sheath, handle, and even the hand guard of the sword, a mesh shirt made of black, chakra absorbing metal, a black trench coat with a blood red flame pattern licking the bottom and both sleeves, and black fingerless gloves with black chakra absorbing metal plates on the back of the fists.

Naruto believes in the power of dark clothing, but he believes even more in the power of chakra absorbing metal. Chakra absorbing metal is extremely rare and expensive as hell, but over the years Naruto has made literally tons of money. What I mean by that is, if you were to take all of Naruto's earnings over the last seven years, in the form of the largest paper bills possible, and stack it, you'd have several tons of paper. He has spent most of that money buying over half of the chakra absorbing metal mined in iron country over the course of three years. This was enough chakra absorbing metal to make one thousand kunai, one thousand shuriken, fifteen fuuma shuriken, five katanas, five sets of the various metal clothing he's currently wearing, and a few other things with the leftover metal. Three fifths of all of that are currently on him, through the use of sealing scrolls.

The over prepared shinobi headed towards the cafeteria, where he assumed people would either be eating breakfast or waiting for him to make that assumption and bring them all home when he found them there with no food to be had. He entered the large dining hall and was slightly disappointed to discover that his latter guess was true. Without a word, all three Harunos grabbed a hold of one of Naruto's arms. He sighed, and then clapped his hands together. There was a flash, and they were all gone.

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Haruno home
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With a yellow flash, the group appeared on the front lawn of a ridiculously oversized house that was just a few rooms short of being a mansion. The tired family let go of their favorite nut job and walked into their home, grumbling tiredly the whole way.

"See you later everybody!"

"EHHHHH!"

Was the collective answer as they all disappeared into their home. Naruto smirked, put his hand behind his head, and began to fall backwards as though there was a chair beneath him.

Flash

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Hokage's office
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Naruto fell into a chair in front of the Hokage's desk. The old man didn't even look up as a young boy just fell out of thin air right in front of him, he just kept doing his paperwork.

"One day there's going to be somebody sitting in that chair when you do that."

"Yeah, and that'll be hilarious, I'm sure. So why the official summons? I gave you my project report last week."

Now he looked up, and his expression told Naruto that this was indeed official business.

"I've been thinking about the progress you've made in your training… I think it's time to give you a real mission, and there just so happens to be one that requires your specific expertise."

"I see…"

Now Naruto was serious. Ninjas often have a subtle way of talking, but Sarutobi was the god of Shinobi, his speech was so subtle that you really have to know him to understand the full meaning of what he says. If he had said that the mission required Naruto's expertise, it would have meant Fuinjutsu, but when he said specific expertise, Naruto knew that he meant it had something to do with the Bijuu.

"I see you understand the severity of what I'm thinking. If so, you'll understand when I say that this is above your current pay grade. I need a Jonin for this, not a genin that has never completed a single mission."

"You want to make me a Jonin? Is that even allowed?"

"Normally you have to have been a chunin for a certain number of successful missions before you can even qualify to take the Jonin exam. However, I am the Hokage, when it comes to my ninjas, I can do whatever I want. I'll be giving you a skill test today, be at the arena in an hour to begin."

"Who will I be fighting?"

"It's a surprise, but don't worry, you'll find it a challenging battle, I promise."

"Alright then, I guess I'll eat breakfast. I already haven't slept at all, I wouldn't want another disadvantage."

"That reminds me, how is that little project coming along?"

"…No progress"

Flash

"Oh well, guess it can wait."

And with that, the old man went back to his paperwork.

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Konoha arena, one hour later
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Naruto entered the arena only to discover that his opponent wasn't there, it was just Sarutobi standing calmly in his robe, smoking his pipe.

"So where's my opponent? Is it Kakashi being late again, or is it that old lady up there?"

Naruto pointed up to the seat the Hokage would normally sit in during the chunin exams where an old woman was currently sitting.

"That is Masako Katsuki (1), head of Konoha hospital and best medic ninja in Konoha, unless you want to count Tsunade even though she isn't here. She is here to heal any injuries sustained during this test. As for your opponent, I've already told you, I will be giving you a skill test."

With that the old man took off his hat, threw his pipe inside of it, tore his cloak off and stuffed that in the hat as well. Now in his retro ninja battle suit with his signature scarf that most would call way too freakin' long, he tossed the hat off into the stands and got into his fighting stance. Naruto just stood there for a minute, then he closed his eyes and smirked.

"I see. Well, I suppose if that's the case…" He opened his eyes to reveal that they had changed. The blue orbs that had once occupied his head had been replaced with pure white balls that were covered in kanji (2). "…I'll have to use this."

"The Fuingan (Sealing eye)… A series of Fuinjutsu burned directly into your eyes, your skull, and even your spinal column. It connects to your central nervous system, purifying all chakra in your body and converting it into your own, making you immune to Genjutsu. It connects to your visual cortex; allowing you to see chakra and speeding up your brain's ability to register visual information, making time appear to slow down. It connects to the memory and motor cortexes, allowing you to memorize and copy any movement you observe. It even has the ability to project chakra at whatever you're looking at, allowing you to use Genjutsu simply by making eye contact. It is the Sharingan recreated through Fuinjutsu, and the reason I placed an eight year old in the research and development department. It's certainly impressive, but do you think it's enough to defeat me?"

"Only one way to find out…"

…

"Begin!"

Naruto immediately threw a kunai, while Sarutobi was already almost done with a string of hand seals.

"Fuuton: Daitoppa! (Wind style: Great breakthrough)"

The wind blast deflected the Kunai completely, never allowing it to get too close. Sarutobi knew the inner workings of Naruto's Hiraishin no Jutsu (Flying thunder god Technique), and wasn't going to let Naruto beat him with it too easily. Basically, the Hiraishin works like this. Unlike his father's version where you summon yourself to a Hiraishin tag, Naruto's technique allows the user to summon any object with a Hiraishin tag on it anywhere within ten feet of any other Hiraishin tag. But it doesn't allow you to bring anything with you that doesn't have one, which means all weapons, cloths, and even people you wish to teleport must have the Hiraishin seal tattooed on them somewhere.

The Haruno family has been fully outfitted for Hiraishin use, but the seal itself won't activate unless your chakra contains the healing abilities of the Uzumaki clan. So even though Sakura is a ninja with the Hiraishin tag tattooed onto her, she still can't activate it, and neither can anyone else until Naruto has children.

The wind had kicked up a cloud of dust, and in those few moments Sarutobi had disappeared. But Naruto could see him with his chakra vision, and knew he was underground. Just as he could see the man sized ball of chakra directly underneath him, Naruto made his move.

"Doton: Yomi Numa (Earth style: Swamp of the Underworld)"

The swamp Naruto created spanned an area of about twenty yards, and severely slowed Sarutobi's movement underground. But Naruto didn't stop, he shifted to another set of hand seals so fast you'd think he had never stopped to execute the first one.

"Ninpo: Jutsu Kaishin (Ninja art: Technique Conversion)"

After slamming his hands back into his swamp, all of the chakra Naruto had just imbued into the dirt was converted instantly to fire type chakra, turning the swamp into a superheated sand pit that was also on fire. Naruto flashed away to the kunai he threw away earlier to avoid the flames, meanwhile Sarutobi popped out of the ground a good forty yards away from Naruto's fire pit.

"How did you know I had sent a clone? Surly you weren't just trying to kill me?"

"You give my eyes too little credit. I didn't simply copy the Sharingan when I made this, I spent a good four months researching the Byakugan so I could learn how it is they can see chakra so vividly, even through solid objects. Simply put, I could see you. I can even see your tenketsu, though I don't have the skill necessary to close them like a Hyuuga can."

"I see. Well, I'm even more impressed than I expected to be. However…" Quick as lightning, Sarutobi tossed a barrage of shuriken at Naruto and performed another set of hand seals. "Shuriken Kage Bunshin no Jutsu (Shuriken Shadow Clone Technique)"

The small barrage of pointy weapons turned into a bladed hail of death that Naruto had no hope of dodging without resorting to Hiraisining outside of the arena, which he was pretty sure wouldn't be allowed. So instead he clapped his hands together and thrust them forward.

"Fuuton: Reppuusho (Wind style: Gale palm)"

All of the Shuriken were deflected backwards by a sudden blast of wind, rushing back at their original thrower even faster than they were originally. Not exactly expecting it, Sarutobi hastily preformed his favorite defensive jutsu.

"Doton: Doryuuheki (Earth style: Earth-style wall)"

A large earth wall sprang up from the dirt, protecting Sarutobi from harm. But upon hearing some of the blades cluck against his wall just a second too late to have been his shuriken, he instantly realized his mistake.

Flash

Naruto was suddenly right behind him, going for a backhand strike to the shoulder blade. But there was a twist. Naruto's fist plate was glowing red hot, revealing that the Hiraishin seal had been etched directly into the metal. If he got hit with that, a negative of the Hiraishin seal would be branded onto his skin, and Naruto was doing a series of one handed seals, clearly intending to imbue the seal with his chakra so that it could be used.

Sarutobi just barely managed to spin around fast enough to catch his arm, but Naruto started to glow.

"Shit!"

He jumped away but it was too late, Naruto exploded, sending the old man flying back over a hundred yards, where another Naruto burst out from the ground with a Rasengan in his hand.

"Rasenga-" (poof)

Sarutobi tossed a kunai at the clone at the last second, allowing him to skid to a halt and find Naruto, who was over by the earth wall, lazily collecting his Kunai like the cocky brat he is.

"Well, it certainly looks like I won't be able to go easy on you. However…" He did a set of life threatening hand seals and slammed his hands on the ground. "Kuchiyose no Jutsu (Summoning Technique)" In a poof of smoke, the legendary monkey king Enma arrived. "That doesn't mean you get to be cocky just yet."

"Heh" Naruto smirked, pulling one last kunai out of the wall.

"Enma, Staff!"

"You got it!"

Sarutobi grabbed the giant black and gold adamantine staff Enma had transformed into and charge Naruto head on. Naruto Rushed ahead to meet him, his hand poised to draw his sword at any moment. Seemingly too early, Naruto drew his sword and let go of it, allowing it to fly at Sarutobi's face. Just as he blocked the sword with his staff, Naruto flashed behind him, going for another red hot backhand loaded with deadly Hiraishin. Sarutobi expected it this time, and dropped into a sweep kick instantly.

Naruto flashed away before it connected, only to reappear behind him again and grab his sword, which was doing its best to fly through the air but was still close enough for Naruto to attempt a downward slash. Enma transformed back into an ape in time to catch Naruto's wrist, blocking the strike and holding him still. Sarutobi capitalized on this by throwing three kunai under Enma's arm, trying to hit Naruto.

To both of their surprise, however, Naruto just flashed away again, leaving his sword behind and appearing just a few feet away, where he performed a sideways slash despite not having his weapon in his hand. Mid swing, his sword reappeared in his hand, and would have severely damaged Enma had he not quickly turned back into the adamantine staff. Naruto followed through with his slash, batting Enma out of Sarutobi's reach. But Sarutobi was already done with his jutsu, and was only waiting for Enma to be out of the way.

"Katon: Karyuu Endan (Fire style: Fire dragon Flame missile)"

At point blank range, avoiding the white hot flame dragon seemed impossible. There was a flash, but Naruto didn't seem to move. When the dragon hit him, however, Naruto disappeared completely, revealing him to be a clone.

'He substituted using the Hiraishin? How! Simultaneous teleportation isn't possible with that jutsu! Unless…'

Sarutobi jumped away just in time as two Narutos burst forth from the ground, both spinning with their fists out, hoping to hit Sarutobi with the Hiraishin plate in each of his shoulder blades.

'He always goes for the shoulder blades. Why is that? Unless of course… No, he wouldn't.'

"Naruto you cruel little brat! You've optimized that branding jutsu for combat use, haven't you?"

"That's right," The Naruto on the left replied. "I've been trying to burn this seal right into your bone the whole time."

"You're such a wicked child. But you're not going to get me with such a barbaric technique."

"We'll see old man, we'll see…"

The Naruto on the right charged forward, sword in hand. But Sarutobi wasn't going to let this one get close. Grabbing Enma, he tossed the adamantine staff at the oncoming Naruto like a giant blunt senbon. The Naruto dodged it, only for Enma to change back into an ape and grab Naruto by the ankle. Naruto tripped, but caught himself with his hands and went to kick Enma in the face. Enma noticed that spikes had popped out of the outer rim of Naruto's boot midway through the kick, and that they were chakra absorbing metal covered in wind chakra.

'Doesn't this boy have any non-lethal moves?'

Were the thoughts of the ape clone right before it exploded, taking the Naruto Clone with him.

Covered by the dust, both Ninjas went through their own set of hand seals.

"Katon: Gokakyu no Jutsu (Fire style: Great fire ball Technique)"

Sarutobi's fireball was larger and deadlier than anything Naruto had ever seen before, and since it was one of Kakashi's favorite techniques, that's saying something. Even so, Naruto wasn't intimidated, he calmly completed his own technique.

"Nenton: Kondan no Jutsu (Combustion style: Chaotic projectile Technique)"

Naruto spat out a small, lightning fast ball of deadly looking chakra that sped forth to meet the giant ball of fire confidently. The two techniques collided, and there was a tremendous explosion that knocked both warriors back just as Enma's hand reached out of the ground to grab Naruto's ankle.

'He's already using his sub element, wind plus fire, I'd better be careful.'

Skidding to a halt, both warriors quickly tossed kunai at each other, Naruto to get closer, Sarutobi just to deflect Naruto's. But when the two weapons collided, Naruto's turned into another Naruto clone, grabbing Enma's slightly burnt hand and ripping him out of the ground.

'He shouldn't be strong enough to do that… Wait, what is that!'

Naruto's face and even his fingers were covered in glowing kanji, and Sarutobi realized that Naruto had branded a seal over his entire body that would improve his physical abilities. Enma flinched slightly but then started the Taijutsu match he knew was coming by kicking out at Naruto's gut. Now empowered by Fuinjutsu, Naruto was too fast for the old monkey, and grabbed his foot, doing a spin and tossing him all the way back to the earth wall from earlier. Enma was about to control his landing, but then got too close to the wall…

Flash

Naruto had evidently left one kunai stuck in the wall as a surprise, as he appeared right in front of Enma, kneeing him in the face and stopping his forward momentum. In that moment, the real Naruto flashed behind him, backhanding him in the shoulder blade.

"Kinpo: Naraku Soutei (Forbidden art: Hell Binding)"

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

Enma screamed in agony as the Hiraishin seal, the negative of the Hiraishin seal, was burned into his shoulder blade, right into the bone… Except that it wasn't Enma, Sarutobi had performed the replacement technique at the last moment in order to spare his longtime companion any permanent harm, figuring that the nearly immortal summon would have to live with the scar a lot longer than he would. Sarutobi fell down and began to writhe in agony, screaming bloody murder at Naruto for causing him so much pain.

"YOU SON OF A BITCH! I'LL KILL YOU YOU LITTLE FUCKER! YOU WILL REGRET THIS I PROMISE YOU! I WILL TEAR YOUR FUCKING HANDS OFF AND FEED THEM TO YOU!"

Naruto's response was "Hmmm. I'm impressed you're still awake. All my test subjects passed out immediately from the pain."

Sarutobi stayed conscious long enough to see Masako jump down from the balcony and rush over to him, then allowed himself to succumb to his agony. His last conscious thought was 'I hate that boy… But he definitely made Jonin.'

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To be continued
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(1) Masako Katsuki is the voice actress for Tsunade

(2) Imagine something similar to that circle of kanji that appears when people use the summoning jutsu, except in his eyes.

And I'm back! I know I've been gone a long time and that I left for unfavorable reasons, so I'm not going to waste time giving you excuses you don't want to hear. I've finally ended the prologue and started the action! Tell me how I did with the fight scene, I've never written one before. Other than that, just tell me what you think, threaten me with death, I don't care so long as you REVIEW!