Naruto: Jubi's Reincarnation
Introduction arc
Kurama no Kyubi: For those of you who haven't noticed, I edited out Tobi's appearance at the end of the previous chapter.
Ren Hatsune Namikaze: Please make it Naruto x Naruko D:
Kurama no Kyubi: Yes, that is a surprisingly popular pairing actually, but who knows.
Bb: Nooo make it narumixsasukee!
Kurama no Kyubi: Sorry, but no. I may make a NarutoXSasuke story somewhere down the line, though. Of course, at least one of them will be female.
Guest: I like the story so far and really hope that the pairing is Naruto X Narumi.
Kurama no Kyubi: You're surprisingly the second person to have asked for that pairing, but who knows. Only time will tell.
SPark681: yup that bastard danzo is always up to no good wish someone would kill him and be done with it anyways keep up the great work!
Kurama no Kyubi: I wouldn't really say that he's "always up to no good" as just like everyone else in Naruto (even Madara), he just desires peace. It's just that his methods of obtaining that peace are rather questionable and in some cases un-humane.
Guest: well since Naruto's the reincarnation of the jubi wouldn't it make sense for him to gain power from the other biju since they all orginate from the jubi?
Kurama no Kyubi: Not really, as the Jubi never had any of those powers to begin with, plus Naruto's the reincarnation of the half of the Jubi that was not split into nine pieces, so he doesn't really have any connection to the Biju (aside from one being his younger sister of course).
Guest: please do make up you're mind and publish one of you're story like say metriod hybride and speaking of which will Naruto having been raised by anko result in him being taught her mentor fighting style in addition to developing a sadistic persona to making more smarter decisions.
Kurama no Kyubi: First off, I don't have much say in what story I'll publish next; the people who vote on my poll do. And I never really said he was raised by Anko, she only acts like an older sister for him, though they live in two different apartments in two different places in the village. And no, she won't have much of an influence on his persona.
Guest: please do make up you're mind about what story you wish to publish dude. like say the story which has the top majority of votes in you're publishing bracket.
Kurama no Kyubi: That's what I'm doing, though. The only reason I published this instead of Ninja Pirate was that when I made the decision to write this story next, it was at the top of the poll.
"Jubi." Normal speech
'Jubi.' Normal thought
"Jubi." Biju speech
'Jubi.' Biju thought
Kurama no Kyubi: I don't own anything.
Chapter 3: Operation: Capture the Biju
It had been several months since Naruto and Narumi had started their training with Shisui, but since then they hadn't really done much else other than going through an obstacle course over and over and over again. The goal was for them to get through it in a minute, preferably less which had seemed like an impossible task at first due to the fact that their first try had taken the both of them about ten minutes.
Naruto and Narumi were currently standing in the training ground before Shisui gave them the signal and they both ran onto the path of the obstacle course and split up at the fork.
Naruto ran down the path as kunai started flying at him and he jumped into the air, avoiding the dangerous projectiles as he grabbed two of them and threw one towards the tree-line at his left, hitting a mark which caused the kunai from that side to come at him. He then through the other kunai to his right, hitting another mark and he continued running as soon as he touched down on the ground.
Narumi in the meantime ran through a dense forest which was covered with wires, though she jumped up to a branch and continued jumping from branch to branch as the wires were only close to the ground. While up there she also took the liberty of cutting the ropes holding up the tree trunks in her path using her claws, and eventually she came out of the dense part of the forest and back onto the path as she continued running.
Naruto came to the lake and simply dived in, swimming towards the other side under water as the large fish calling the lake its home came up behind him. It attempted to gobble him up whole, but he seemed to vanish and unknown to the fish was that he had shunshined to the top of its head. He then lowered one of his tails down in front of one of the fish's eyes, and the fish – believing it was food – started swimming as fast as it could to catch it, but it ended up crashing into the lake's rocky wall as Naruto swam up to the top and climbed out of the pond.
He continued running towards a U-turn, and at said U-turn, he and Narumi passed each other before running down the path the other had taken. It was only a matter of time before they again met up at the fork and entered the training grounds.
"Wow. 51.36 seconds for Naruto-kun and 51.57 seconds for Narumi-chan. You both got through it in less than a minute. Congratulations." He said to the children, neither of which seemed tired in the slightest as they just stood there with smiles on their faces.
"Now then, let's move on to the next part of your training." Shisui said as he held up three slips of paper.
"What's that?" Narumi asked.
"These are known as Chakra Papers, with them you'll be able to find out what elemental affinity you have." Shisui said.
"Elemental affinity…?" Naruto asked puzzled.
"That's right. You see, there are five different elements that ninja can use in battle; Fire, Wind, Lightning, Earth, and Water. Each person is born with at least one of these elements, and you can check which one you have by sending your chakra into one of these Chakra Papers." Shisui said before holding one of the slips up in his right hand in-between his index and middle finger "Like this." Naruto and Narumi both gasped as the slip suddenly burst into flames before the Uchiha continued "If you have Fire, it burns to a crisp, Wind, it splits in two, Lightning, it wrinkles, Earth, it turns to dust, and Water, it becomes wet. Some people are also born with two elements and they can combine those two elements into a new one which we refer to as a Kekkei Genkai. It's also possible to learn an element that you don't have an affinity for, but it's very hard, and it's impossible to learn all elements within a lifetime. Though, even if one does learn an element they don't have an affinity for, they won't be able to learn a Kekkei Genkai."
He then stepped forward and gave one slip to Naruto while he gave the other one to Narumi as he said "Now it's your turn."
"You go first, Narumi-chan." Naruto said as he looked at his sister.
"Okay." She said before channeling her chakra into the slip, causing it to split in two before both halves burned to a crisp.
"Sugoi! It split in two and burned to a crisp!" Naruto exclaimed.
"Hmm. Fire and Wind, huh?" Shisui said before turning to Naruto "Your turn."
"Yosh!" Naruto exclaimed before holding out the slip of paper as he channeled chakra into it and suddenly it became wet before wrinkling then it was split in half and one half burned to a crisp while the other turned to dust "Umm… Okay…?"
"You're so cool, Onii-sama! Having all the elements!" Narumi exclaimed.
"Well, this certainly was unexpected. I'm afraid that I can only teach you Fire Jutsu." Shisui said as he scratched the back of his head sheepishly.
"But can't the Sharingan copy all forms of Jutsu?" Narumi asked, remembering that Shisui had told them that at some point.
"Well, yes, but – this is rather embarrassing – but for some reason my Sharingan never developed that ability." Shisui said, blushing slightly from the embarrassment as he grinned nervously.
"What? Really?" Naruto asked.
"Yeah. I can predict my opponents' moves just fine, but for some reason I can't copy any Jutsu." Shisui said.
"That's… really lame." Narumi said with a rather disappointed look on her face.
Trees
On a branch amongst the trees was someone wearing the black robes of the ANBU as well as an ANBU mask which had the kanji for ROOT on it, indicating the man to be a member of the Foundation, also known as ROOT.
'So the boy can learn Jutsus of all elements. That alone would make him a powerful weapon for Danzo-sama to use.' The ROOT member thought.
Training ground
"Now, I do of course know the exercises to master each element, but I can't teach you anything but Fire Jutsu." Shisui said before adding "Though they do have scrolls in the Konoha Library on Jutsu of all the different elements. Jutsus that's been mastered by Konoha-nins that is." He then paused a little before asking "So what element would you like to learn first?"
"Hmm… Fire, definitely Fire." Naruto said after thinking a little.
"In that case, I'll take Fire too." Narumi said and Shisui smiled.
"Great. That makes things a little easier." Shisui said before walking over to the tree-line.
"What are you doing?" Naruto asked.
"Preparing the exercise." Shisui said before jumping up into the tree and he came back down again shortly after, holding a pair of leaves in his hand. He walked towards the kids before handing them the leaves.
"What are these for?" Narumi asked.
"I want you to set them on fire using only your chakra. Close your eyes and concentrate solely on the leaf and the fire burning inside of you." Shisui said and Naruto and Narumi closed their eyes, following his instructions.
After several moments, however, Naruto's eyes opened in frustration as he said "Damn it! I'm concentrating as hard as I can! So why won't the leaf catch fire?"
"Don't let your frustrations get the best of you, Naruto-kun. You shouldn't get let down if you can't do it right away. After all, it took an entire week for me to even get as much as a spark." Shisui said.
"Really?" Naruto asked and Shisui nodded.
"So just continue trying. You'll get it eventually." He said and Naruto then went back to trying to get the leaf to burn.
For the rest of the day Naruto and Narumi continued trying to get the leaves to burn, though they weren't able to make much progress as the leaves still wouldn't catch fire until…
As Narumi concentrated on her leaf, she opened her eyes just as a tiny flame appeared on the top of the leaf, but it got snuffed out as soon as her eyes were fully opened.
"Whoa. Congratulations, Narumi-chan. You actually got a flame to appear." Shisui said as he lightly clapped at her accomplishment.
"Sugoi, Narumi-chan! That's awesome!" Naruto exclaimed.
'She managed something that took me more than a week in less than a day. If Naruto-kun follows her example then they'll both surpass me sooner or later.' Shisui thought with a soft smile.
He then looked up at the sky and seeing as it was getting late said "Okay, you two, that's all for today. Before returning home, however, what do you say to me buying you some ramen?"
"Really?" Naruto and Narumi yelled in unison.
"Yeah, but you don't have to destroy my ear-drums." Shisui said, causing the two to apologize.
As they then headed to the Ichiraku Ramen stand, they didn't realize that they were being watched from the trees and later roof-tops. Or rather, Naruto and Narumi didn't realize it, but Shisui sure did, though he didn't bother about it as he knew that there was someone else out there looking out for them.
As the three were eating at the ramen stand, the ROOT operative was looking down on them from the roof-tops, waiting for the two children to be alone so he could make his move, not wanting to have to face an Uchiha of Shisui's caliber. Just then, however, Itachi in full ANBU gear (including a weasel mask) appeared behind him on the roof, causing him to turn around.
'So Danzo's already making his move?' Itachi thought.
The ROOT member then charged at him before attempting to punch him, however, Itachi blocked it easily, but his eyes widened when an explosion suddenly occurred, one which the ANBU managed to dodge just in time via the combined efforts of his Sharingan and the shunshin.
'Bakuton? That's an Iwa Kekkei Genkai! How did Danzo get his hands on it?' Itachi thought before the man charged at him again, trying to land another punch, but this time Itachi knew better and focused on dodging rather than blocking.
'Katon: Goukakyo no Jutsu!' The Uchiha thought upon completing the hand-sign sequence before firing a ball of flames towards the ROOT ANBU.
The ROOT member dodged it, however, before throwing several shuriken which Itachi easily dodged, but he noticed the man holding out his left arm with the hand open and the Uchiha looked over his shoulder just in time to see the shuriken coming back towards him, so he ducked down to avoid them. When they approached the man however, they stopped before his palm before being shot back at Itachi who was this time forced to jump into the air.
'Magnetic attraction and repulsion. Jiton?' Itachi thought before noticing the man going through a series of one-handed hand-signs with his right hand 'I can't copy the Jutsu!'
The man then fired several globs of lava at Itachi, but said Uchiha landed on the roof before leaping to his left, effectively dodging the globs.
'Even Yoton?' He thought before pulling out a kunai with an explosive tag attached to it and he threw it at the ROOT member, but the kunai stopped short of its target, however, that's when the tag blew up.
Itachi ran towards the resulting smoke from the explosion, but upon running through it as it faded, he stopped before noticing that the man had used the smoke as an opportunity to escape.
Uchiha compound
"Hmm… Bakuton, Jiton, and Yoton." Shisui said with his eyes closed as he was in a thinking pose while leaning against a wall in a small alley in the Uchiha compound.
"Bakuton and Yoton belong to Iwagakure while Jiton belongs to Sunagakure. Even if Danzo managed to get his hands on someone with those Kekkei Genkai, there's no way they could all belong to the same person." Itachi said.
"That's true, but…" Shisui said as he trailed off before opening his eyes.
"But…?" Itachi inquired and Shisui looked at him for a few moments before shaking his head.
"No, it's nothing. Don't worry about it. Anyway, if this person does indeed possess those three Kekkei Genkai, we can't rule out the possibility that he may have more. Go and report to the Hokage for now, I'm sure he'll be interested in this revelation." Shisui said and Itachi nodded before shunshining away.
Shisui however just stood there for a while, looking off into space before thinking 'I wonder if it could really be…' He then shook his head as he thought 'No, that's impossible. There's no way it could be him, could there?'
Next day
The next day, Naruto and Narumi were again working hard at trying to get the leaves to burn as Shisui was standing before them.
'Impressive. It's just the second day of this exercise and I can already tell that their chakra control has improved greatly. If they keep this up they may get the leaves to burn by the time it took me to get a spark.' Shisui thought before turning his head slightly towards where he could faintly hear the clang of metal meeting metal in the trees 'Itachi, be careful.'
Tree-tops
Itachi leapt back as he knocked several shuriken away with his tanto before the ROOT member charged at him, however, he charged at a much greater speed than what he had used the day before and he was in Itachi's face in less than a second.
'Kuso…!' Itachi exclaimed inwardly as the man attempted to land a punch, but he quickly burst into a flock of crows, using his own version of the shunshin.
'Crows?' The man thought before sensing something and he looked over his shoulder just in time to see Itachi come at him with his tanto. Short of the man's neck, however, it stopped as though it had hit an invisible wall and the man turned around, this time landing an attack to Itachi's stomach.
"Die." The ROOT ANBU said before an explosion occurred, and as they light from the blast died down, there was no sign of the Uchiha.
Training grounds
"Hmm?" Shisui turned towards the direction of the fight upon sensing that it seemed to be over.
"What is it, Shisui-sensei?" Naruto asked as he had opened his eyes.
"Oh, nothing. It's just that something's seemed to come up. You two just continue trying to burn those leaves and I'll be back shortly." Shisui said before shunshining away.
Tree-tops
'Strange. That seemed almost too easy, and he even left a lot of openings for me to attack him.' The member of ROOT thought before he noticed a new presence behind him and he turned around to see Shisui standing there with Sharingan activated.
"So you must be the guy with multiple Kekkei Genkai, huh?" Shisui said as he drew his tanto and pointed it at the ROOT member.
'Uchiha Shisui. He's currently Konoha's third most powerful Jonin behind Nara Shikaku and Jiraiya. Beating him will be anything but easy.' The ROOT ANBU thought before Shisui charged at him as the blade of his tanto was suddenly covered in flames.
The member of ROOT leapt back before weaving a series of hand-signs and as he landed on the top of a tree, he shot forth several laser beams towards Shisui. The Uchiha however vanished in a shunshin before reappearing behind the man as he swung his sword at him. However, just before the sword could hit, he vanished in a blur of speed.
'That wasn't the shunshin. Jinton?' Shisui thought. (Kurama no Kyubi: For those of you who are unaware; Jinton can refer to both the Kekkei Genkai Quick-Style (Swift Release) and the Kekkei Touta Particle-Style.)
The ROOT operative reappeared behind Shisui before attempting to punch him, but the Uchiha simply shunshined out of the way before weaving a series of hand-signs.
"Katon: Goukakyo no Jutsu!" A large fire ball came out of Shisui's mouth and headed straight for the ROOT member. However, the ROOT operative just stood there as he went through a series of hand signs of his own before a shield of scorching hot flames appeared in front of him, absorbing the fire before firing out several scorching hot bullets of fire towards Shisui who expertly dodged them by repeatedly using the shunshin.
'Bakuton, Jiton, Yoton, Ranton, Jinton, and now even Shakuton. There's no mistaking it.' Shisui thought before appearing behind the member of ROOT and attempting to thrust his tanto forward, into the man's back. However, the ROOT operative disappeared before reappearing behind him and using his foot, pushed Shisui towards the Shakuton shield which then engulfed him before vanishing.
The ROOT operative then walked to the edge of the tree-line to look down at the children who were still trying to get their leaves to burn, though they had made some progress as Naruto had now also been able to form a small flame.
Training Grounds
Naruto – feeling as though something was wrong – opened his eyes just in time to see the member of ROOT standing before them, and Narumi gasped as she opened her eyes as well.
"Ah, who are you?!" Naruto asked, but before he knew what happened both he and Narumi collapsed unconscious onto the ground.
"Mission accomplished." The ROOT operative said as he lifted them up before shunshining away.
Just then, however, Itachi, Shisui, and two other ANBU appeared in the clearing.
"Looks like he doesn't realize that the me that he killed was just a clone." Shisui said.
"Or he just doesn't care." One of the ANBU, one wearing a dog mask said.
"What I wanna know though, is why he didn't chase after Itachi when he ran away." The other ANBU said.
"It's because I put him under a Genjutsu when he stopped my attack with his Jiton, causing him to believe that he blew me up with that Bakuton punch." Itachi answered.
"Anyway, we have to follow him. We should know where he's going thanks to the tracking seals I placed on Naruto-kun and Narumi-chan yesterday at the ramen stand." Shisui said before the four of them shunshined away.
ROOT HQ
"Good work, Ryousai." Danzo said as the ROOT operative now identified as Ryousai dropped the unconscious forms of Naruto and Narumi onto the floor.
"I'll be taking my leave, then." Ryousai said before shunshining away.
Danzo stepped over to Naruto and Narumi while looking down at them while saying "Now with both the Jubi and the Kyubi in my hands, Konoha will have the two most powerful weapons in the Shinobi world, and the means to using them correctly."
Ryousai
Ryousai was walking down a hallway in ROOT's headquarters while thinking back to his battle with Itachi and then the one with Shisui, thinking of how easily he had won.
'It's weird, I'm getting the strongest feeling that there's something I'm missing.' He thought before adding 'Both battles went by rather easily, too easily. There's no way an ANBU and a Jonin would go down that easily, meaning that they weren't even trying, but why?' His eyes then widened behind his mask upon realization 'No, it can't be…!'
He then shunshined away, heading for the entrance as quickly as possible.
ROOT HQ entrance
Shisui and the three ANBU stood outside the entrance to the ROOT HQ. As they stepped towards the entrance, two ROOT operatives that were standing guard walked up before them, blocking their path.
"Hold it! We cannot let you through here without Danzo-sama's permission." One of the ROOT members said.
"We were sent here by Hokage-sama with a message for Danzo-san." Shisui said and the two ROOT members looked at each other for a second before looking back at Shisui.
"Very well." They then stepped aside, letting the Jonin and four ANBU pass, not even questioning why the Hokage would send one Jonin and three ANBU to give Danzo a message when one ANBU would've been enough.
As soon as the four entered the place, they started running as they split up; Shisui and Itachi going one way while the other two ANBU went another.
Shisui and Itachi
As the two ran down through the hallways of the ROOT base, they eventually entered into a large round room which seemed to go up many floors. As they looked around while walking into the room, Shisui stopped when he noticed the ROOT operative from before standing in the middle of the room.
"Itachi, you go ahead and save Naruto-kun and Narumi-chan." He said.
"You sure?" Itachi asked.
"Positive. There's something I've got to find out about him." Shisui said.
"All right, but be careful." Itachi said before shunshining to the other side of the room and running down the hallway.
"You're going to fight me alone?" Ryousai asked as he looked at Shisui, not even bothered by the fact that Itachi had made it past him.
"You really think so little of me as to think that I can't even beat my own student, eh Kyousuke-kun?" Shisui asked.
Other ANBU
The other two ANBU, Inu and Tenzo entered a room which had bookshelves along the walls and a table in the middle of the room, said table having several books and documents on it.
As they walked further into the room, Tenzo walked over to one of the bookshelves, looking over the books while Inu went over to the table picked up a document, looking through it. As Tenzo took out a book and started looking through it before his eyes widened.
'What's this?!' He thought.
"What the…?" He heard Inu say before turning his attention towards the other ANBU who had noticed a book that the document he was currently holding had been lying upon.
"What is it, Kakashi-senpai?" Tenzo asked as he approached Inu who put down the document to lift the book as Tenzo read the title ""History of the Biju: Untold Stories"?"
Noticing the spiral symbol on the top-left of the cover, they realized that the book was from Uzushio, though right next to it was the symbol of the Haruma clan; an extinct clan from the Land of Demons.
Inu opened it and they both started reading through it.
Shisui vs. Ryousai
Ryousai shot several pressurized streams of hot lava towards Shisui who just kept teleporting out of the way using his favorite Jutsu. After several minutes of this, he appeared right in Ryousai's face before drawing his sword and slashing it at Ryousai's neck as it was covered in flames, but the member of ROOT simply just dodged in a burst of speed, using his Jinton.
Shisui then landed on the floor before instantly vanishing again, heading after Ryousai before stopping said ROOT operative in his tracks by appearing right in front of him and then thrusting the hilt of his blade into his stomach, causing the man to keel over slightly.
"You thought you could beat me in speed?" Shisui asked before slamming his right foot into Ryousai's stomach, sending the man skidding backwards while following up with a series of hand-signs "Katon: Goukaryuendan no Jutsu!"
He then spat a huge dragon made of fire out of his mouth which headed directly towards Ryousai. However, Ryousai noticed that several of his earlier Yoton attacks had hit a water pipe going along the walls, causing a leak, which made him smile as he went through several hand-signs of his own.
"Hyoton: Hyoryudan no Jutsu!" The water leaking out of the water pipe suddenly froze before forming into the form of a dragon as it came down in front of Ryousai as if to protect him and it headed straight for the fire dragon.
"Are you stupid? There's no way ice can beat fire." Shisui said.
"Who said I was gonna use the ice?" Ryousai asked, confusing Shisui as the dragon of ice suddenly flew up above the fire dragon before all of a sudden turning back into water as it rained down on the fire, snuffing it out, and covering a large portion of the room in steam.
'Impressive. Turning the ice back into water in order to beat my fire.' Shisui thought with a proud smile on his face before looking around as he used all of his six senses so as not to be ambushed 'Now then, he'll definitely try using the steam as a cover while he tries to attack me, so I need to figure where he'll come from.' However, as time went on and Ryousai still didn't attack, Shisui was about to think that he had left, probably going after Itachi, but then he started feeling that it was getting gradually hotter and upon looking down on his body, he saw that smoke had started coming from him as though his skin was burning 'What the…? He must be using Futton! I need to get out of here before he raises the temperature to a point where my skin will melt off!'
He then jumped out of the now boiling hot steam, but just as he came out, Ryousai appeared before him in a burst of speed and kicked him into the wall which he then slided down with his back as the ROOT operative landed on the floor in front of him, the steam starting to fade away.
"So is that all Shunshin no Shisui can take? I expected more from one of Konoha's finest." Ryousai said as he was about to form a series of hand-signs, but just then, a hand covered in lightning came out of the left side of his chest.
"I would advise you not to let down your guard." Inu said from behind the man's back.
"Heh. Good advise." Ryousai said before the ANBU pulled his hand out of the man's chest, letting him fall down onto the floor lifeless.
"Thanks." Shisui said as he rose to his feet before adding "Though I could've managed it on my own."
"Perhaps, but we don't have time to stay here and fight him." Inu said.
"I must say, though. That was a lot easier than expected." Tenzo said as he stepped up to them.
"Not really. Even the strongest of people could be fell by the simplest of tricks if they let their guard down." Shisui said.
"He's right." Inu said, turning to Tenzo before saying "Now let's get going."
"Right." Tenzo said and Inu turned back towards Shisui to see him looking down on Ryousai's body with a sad look on his face.
"You all right?" He asked.
"Huh? Oh, yeah, I'm fine." Shisui said with an obviously fake smile "Now then, let's get going."
'I just said that…' Inu thought with a sweatdrop.
Itachi
Itachi came running into a large room that consisted of two bridges that connected at the center and there was no way to see either the bottom or the top of the room. As he ran over the bridge, he spotted the still-unconscious forms of Naruto and Narumi lying in the middle of the room.
'Naruto-kun, Narumi-chan!' He thought before he was about to pick up speed, but just then, several kunai shot down from either side, causing him to the stop as they impacted with the floor in front of him.
"I congratulate you on coming this far into my headquarters without permission, but I'm afraid that this is as far as you'll get." Itachi watched as Danzo walked out from behind one of the pillars in the room and over to where the two five-year olds were.
'He knew we were coming?' Itachi thought.
"I figured that Hiruzen might try something like this, which is why I'm personally guarding these two myself." Danzo said before adding "He is such a fool, not realizing the weapons that we've got right under our very noses."
"And since when did we refer to children as weapons?" Itachi asked in a monotone voice.
""Children"? I'm afraid you're mistaken. These aren't mere children, they're the strongest of the ten Biju." Danzo said.
'Ten?' Itachi thought as Danzo continued.
"With their power, we could easily bring about peace in the Shinobi world, even if we'd have to do it by force." He said before adding "Say, why don't you join me? Together, we could create a world where there are no wars. I know you of everyone would agree with my goal, Itachi."
"With the goal, perhaps. But not the methods." Itachi said before pulling his tanto.
"What a shame. Wasting such talents on Hiruzen." Danzo said before weaving a series of hand-signs.
Blades of wind were then shot at Itachi, but he managed to dodge them all thanks to his Sharingan before going through a series of hand-signs of his own.
"Katon: Goukakyo no Jutsu!" The fire ball was sent flying at Danzo, but he jumped out of the way, however, just then, wooden tendrils came out of the floor and wrapped themselves around him as Shisui appeared above Naruto and Narumi before vanishing again, taking them with him. Itachi then looked over his shoulder and smiled upon seeing Shisui standing there with the children and Inu to his left while Tenzo was crouched on the floor to his right, holding his hands on the floor.
"Come on, Itachi. We're done here." Shisui said as they started running and Itachi ran after them.
"Hurry, follow them!" Danzo yelled as several ROOT operatives landed on the bridge and ran after them as the wooden tendrils holding the ROOT leader in place started receding back into the floor.
Later, Konoha Hospital
"Uhng." Naruto grunted as he woke up before seeing that he was in the hospital and looking to his right he saw Narumi sleeping in the next bed.
"So you're awake." Naruto then turned to the voice to see Shisui sitting by the bed.
"Wh-what happened?" The boy asked as he sat up.
"You and Narumi-chan just collapsed during training. Probably as a result of overexertion." Shisui said.
"Really?" Naruto asked before recalling the man who had appeared before him and his sister "But there was a man, and–" He started, but Shisui cut him off.
"Hallucinations are also common with overexertion. Now get some rest." Shisui said with a smile.
"O-okay." Naruto said as he lied back down again and Shisui thought back to when they had delivered their reports to the Hokage.
Flashback
"The Jubi?" Hiruzen asked.
"Yes. That's at least what the book referred to it as." Inu said.
"Hmm… To think that something like that once existed, and the combined Biju only makes up half of it." Hiruzen said in thought before adding "And you're saying that Naruto-kun's the reincarnation of the other half?"
"That's at least what Danzo believes." Tenzo said.
"But it does make sense, considering his appearance." Shisui pointed out.
"But what about this man who seemingly could use all the elemental Kekkei Genkai?" Hiruzen asked before turning to Shisui "From what I understand, you seemed to know him quite well."
"Yes, Hokage-sama." Shisui said as he got a sad look on his face before saying "I first met Kyousuke-kun back in the Third Great Shinobi War. He was a war orphan in the Land of Water, and so, I decided to teach him Ninjutsu so that he could learn to defend himself. It's only later that I learned that he had a strange power."
"A strange power?" Inu asked, and Shisui nodded.
"Hai. I still don't know if it's a Kekkei Genkai or not, but he somehow had the ability to absorb Kekkei Genkai." Shisui said.
"Absorb Kekkei Genkai?" Hiruzen asked, obviously surprised.
"Yes, though I believe it's only limited to elemental Kekkei Genkai." Shisui said.
"What's the catch?" Itachi asked, catching everyone's attention and upon seeing their questioning looks, he elaborated "What happens to the victims once their Kekkei Genkai is absorbed?"
"They die. Which is exactly why I told Kyousuke-kun never to use that ability again." Shisui said.
"Seems like he didn't listen to you." Inu said.
"It would appear so." Shisui said.
"Well, that's all in the past now. And now that Kyousuke's dead, there won't be any more victims to that technique." Hiruzen said.
"Yeah…" Shisui said before Hiruzen spoke again.
"And on a brighter side, at least now we've got some proof of Danzo's past actions, so if he were to try anything again, we can just make this known to the council." He said.
Flashback end
'Naruto-kun, Narumi-chan. I won't ever let you go down the same path as Kyousuke-kun did. At least you'll never meet him now.' Shisui thought with a smile as he looked at the sleeping forms of the two Uzumaki.
ROOT HQ
In the room where Shisui thought Ryousai, there was now no sign of the man's body except for a black man-shaped shadow in the floor where the man had "died", said shadow suddenly smiling before vanishing as only one phrase could be heard.
"Inton: Kagemaji no Jutsu!"
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Naruto "Yosh! It's finally time for the graduation!"
Narumi (blushes) "Ah! O-Onii-sama…!"
Iruka "Team 9 consists of Uzumaki Naruto"…"… Uzumaki Narumi…"…"… and…"
Naruto "Next time on Naruto: Jubi's Reincarnation: Team 9."
Shisui "Team 9, come with me. I'm gonna be your sensei from now on."
Kurama no Kyubi: Sorry this took so long, guys, but I ran into several writer's blocks, some of which were a real pain. And I'm also sorry to announce that I'll take a break from this this story for now as I need to concentrate on my other stories. This would also be some good news for anyone one of you who are reading Dragon Ball Shippuden as that's the story that I'm planning on continuing on now.