Ancient History 101
I don't own Naruto.
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"Talking"
Demon talking
-People Chatting with Demons mentally-
'Thoughts'
"Other Languages"
-X- Scene change and time change
YoY Different point of view
RnR Flash back
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Training arc, part 2
YoY Sakura
She wonders off once Naruto shut the door on her. Her mind is currently a whirl from the conversation that had just occurred between them in the last few minutes as she walks down the stairs so she can exit the building. She's in conflict as didn't know what to do as a part of her wants to kick down Naruto's door and pummel him for what he said, while the other part of her want to forget about what Naruto, since he was just an idiot and was just trying to hurt her since she refused to date him.
"What does he know? If Kakashi was undergoing investigation then he would have made a point of informing us about it. Naruto's just jealous, that's all. He's just trying to act more like Sasuke to get me interested into him." She growls to herself as she tries to brush it the whole incident, but the part about not having any friends among the other girl genin continued to sting as she remembers how her friendship with Ino began and how she's the one that ended it. She bites her lower lip in uncertainty as she walks back to her house in order to check the mail or something, to see if Kakashi had dropped by her house since she can't help but agree that if Sasuke's in trouble then so was Kakashi by default.
YoY Hinata
Temari seemed to be in deep thought about something as they ate their lunch. In the last week, they've formed a rather shaky friendship considering that Temari is the daughter of the current Kazekage and she's heiress to one of the powerful bloodline limits within Hidden Leaf. They had Naruto to thank for their spending time together as Temari helps her get ready for the up coming tournament, though from her understanding, it was only suppose to be for a single day of Temari hanging around in case she needs to receive medical attention.
She jerks her head up as she hears some kind of commotion happening and finds a long limbed bear racing through the street with what appears to be a large fish. The odd bear is being chased by a shop owner that the bear must have stolen the fish from. She frowns as she uses her bloodline limit to check out the bear. "That's a summoned beast." She says softly out loud, not at all stuttering as she's confused as to who in Leaf has a contract with bears. "How can you tell?" Temari asks. "The bear's whole body is shining with chakra, since I read scrolls that descript the difference between summon beasts and their moral cousins, plus, the bear's limbs are different as is the face." She stutters out to her dismay.
They slap down money on the table before heading off to follow the bear. They had finished their meal a while back and were just enjoying the comfortable shade of the restaurant. They arrive to find Tenten paying the merchant money for the fish as the bear hides behind her with the fish still in its mouth. "He's your's?" Temari asks as the merchant grumbles about bears and thieves.
Tenten shakes her head as the weapons master looks down at the silver furred bear that was beginning to eat the fish as they chat. "He's kind of cute, in an odd, clumsy way." Tenten muses. "Hinata says this bear is a summoned beast, which means that the summoner must be around here somewhere." Temari mentions and then kneels down to address the bear. "So, where's your summoner?" The blond Sand nin asks and the bear cocks its head to the side and says, "You talking about me? I don't understand you." They all blink as the alien sounding words come out of the bear's short muzzle.
While they're all confused, she wasn't the only one to squeal, "Ah isn't it cute?" At the way the bear looks puzzled at them. The bear sighs and within seconds, the bear's done eating the fish. "Can we find Uncle Blue Lion now? He promised to show me around this odd place." The bear once more, speaks in a foreign tongue.
After a few tries on communicating with the silver coated bear, they managed to introduce themselves by pointing at themselves and saying their names. They found out that the bear's name is "Duster" and seems to want to find someone called "Blue Lion," who's most likely the bear's summoner. So they set off to search for the summoner, they each were highly curious about who's able to summon such an odd bear.
After about two hours, the silver bear shouts out, "Uncle!" They watch as the bear leaps onto Naruto. What's even odder was that Naruto's speaking the same language. "Duster, I was so worried that someone had killed you. Why did you take off like that? I was only in there for a few heart beats before I noticed you weren't with me any more. This place is dangerous! People here don't honour the spirits the way they do back in Ice Valley." They watch as the bear seems to be looking highly guilty about something, which makes them wonder just what Naruto told the bear.
Naruto gets up off the ground and blinks as he notices that they're standing there. Her checks burn as she looks to the bear as she begins to poke her fingers together. "I'm sorry for any trouble Duster sent your way. He's parents sent him away for a bit as they don't want him coming upon them doing it. He might not look it, but he's the equivalent of a six month old bear." Naruto says as the silver furred bear now dubbed Duster wants to be picked up by the blond ninja that's her crush.
"What kind of bear summon is he?" Tenten asks as she notices that Temari and Tenten exchange looks. "Short-faced Bear, his father is the boss, Raging Fury while his mother is Green Wrath, their currently the parents of the whole species though there are five other she bears that are being courted by Raging Fury and Green Wrath's sons, so in time, Duster here will have nieces and nephews." Naruto answers before giving into Duster's demands and picking up the large cub without any signs of strain on Naruto's part.
She considers what Naruto's said, she's puzzled about it what he said since she's never seen a bear like Duster, let alone that there was another tribe of bears that can be summoned. "So, you haven't signed a contract then?" Temari asks. "Not really, but Raging Fury doesn't mind me summoning him and his offspring some times." Naruto replies casually, she studies Naruto by using her clan's bloodline limit and finds that Naruto's glowing brighter and that as she concentrates she could seen something under Naruto's external glow until something seems to activate and she's blinks as she realises that something sprung up to deny her scan of Naruto's chakra pathways.
As the others continue chatting, she ties to come to terms that Naruto has changed, that some how, Naruto's grown so powerful that his chakra's making him shine brightly in her Byakugan for the brief time before that defence popped up to block her bloodline ability. In the end, she decides to talk with the Hokage as the conversation ends with Naruto heading off with Duster, talking to the bear in that alien tongue that the bear seems to understand and speak.
YoY Temari
Tenten headed off to continue her training now that they've returned the silver furred cub back to his caretaker. Hinata also headed off in the direction of the office tower, leaving her to contemplate what she's learnt about the blond genin that not only beat her during the prelims but also pretty much found her something to do besides brooding about her fight and about the upcoming invasion. She had also found herself becoming fond of the heiress as well since Hinata wasn't like the other two girl genin that participated in the prelims, if she's right then both of said girls had crushes on that prick of an Uchiha that Hinata's cousin beat up.
From what they've gathered, there were complaints being filed against Sasuke Uchiha by fellow Leaf nins, but she's not that surprised since what the Uchiha prick tried to do during her battle with Naruto, it relieved her that Naruto didn't do any jutsus during the match other then them both using there chakra to manipulate the wind into range attacks as their respective weapons slash through it. She's confident that the prick didn't have the right chakra control to mimic their attacks, she already knows that it's impossible to memorised any jutsus Naruto uses unless you're willing to sign a contract in blood to agreeing to his terms of in what kind of situations they could unleash the full potential of those jutsus.
She could only guess at the full potential of those three healing jutsus Naruto taught Hinata, though she knows what they do, for example, she watched Hinata poison herself once and then went through some hand seals for the poison remover jutsu. She knows that a bit of water helps in removing the poison. Hinata would have a few drops of water on her skin before Hinata's glowing green hand began to move over her body, moving towards the arm that has the water on the skin. She had been amazed to see the water drops vanish and dots of blood appear where the water drops had been. From what she can tell, within those drops of blood was the highly condense form of whatever poison Hinata had introduced into her body.
She sighs and begins to muddle over, yet again, the transformation jutsu that Naruto used at the end of the match. She remembers just how heavy Naruto had been as well as the way he had moved before pinning her to the ground. She remembers the faint scent of rain clinging to Naruto as he had her pinned to the ground. The fear and fascination of confronting him in the form… it made her wonder what just how much of the transformation was just his mind fantasying about what a lion looked like, but she can't deny, that lion was huge, as big as any tigers she's seen while they were in the Forest of Death.
A thought about an exchange enters into her mind. She'll offer him information about the up coming invasion in exchange for learning that transformation jutsu. She pauses as she begins to weight the pros and cons of such a deal. She decides to think a bit more on it before acting on it. She finds herself in front of the hotel that she's staying at with her two younger brothers. She's find Hinata at the usual place at the usual time tomorrow so she heads up to the room to read her novel that she bought before Naruto convinced her into watching over Hinata's training.
YoY Hinata
She shifts her weight around as she sits in a chair before the Third Hokage's desk, trying to overcome her speech impairment that descended on her the moment she entered the office. Lord Hokage was kind enough to have tea for the two of them. It's taking a while to calm her nerves but she finally managed to say, what she came to say in a rush, "IwasjustwonderingifyouknowaboutthechangesinNaruto'schakrapathways. IcheckedthemoutbutsomethingblockedmyabilitytoseehispathwaysandheclaimstoknowabearsummonnamedRagingFury. Idon'tknowwant'sgoingonwithNarutobutIknowthatsomethinghappenedtohimanditchangedhim."
The Third blinks and she feels faint as she's overcome with embarrassment. "Am I to believe that you attempted to look at Naruto's pathways but something stopped you from going any further? Also, did you mention that Naruto can summon a bear called Raging Fury?" Lord Hokage asks. She nods slightly but she corrects him by stuttering out, "Naruto claims he knows a summon bear named Raging Fury. He was taking care of this young summon named Duster, but I never knew there was a tribe of Short-Faced bears that can be summoned though." Lord Hokage nods slightly as the old man leans on his woven hands with a thoughtful look on his face.
"I'm sure you know about that large explosion of chakra that occurred a few weeks before the Chuunin exam was to occur?" Lord Hokage asks her and she nods. "Naruto was experimenting with a jutsu that day and he vanished from the village." Lord Hokage says, she looks puzzled but waits for the Hokage to continue. "Naruto's been giving me his earliest journals of what happened to him. The jutsu sent Naruto into the distant past, so far into the pass that he encountered straightest of beasts and a different ecosystem. From what the understanding we've come to, as long as Naruto wasn't in the right time period, he was immortal and didn't age physically."
She blinks as she tries to understand what Lord Hokage was trying to say. "But he's here, I saw him a few hours ago." She says, trying her best not to stutter. "The Naruto we now know is the one that lived for countless millions of years. He's changed as he lived through different eras, he's grown powerful." Lord Hokage says, she bites her lower lip. "Hasn't anyone else noticed how different he is?" She asks and she notices how sad and old the Third looks at that moment. "No, but that might be for the best. The council not too pleased that nobody's been able to remove the seal that's keeping Sasuke from activating his bloodline limit. They currently think it's a fluke that he's been able to do it at all." Lord Hokage says and she frowns as she has mixed feelings that nobody wants to see just how strong Naruto really is but she's slightly relieved that Naruto's going to get punished for sealing Sasuke's bloodline.
She blinks as Lord Hokage pulls out a scroll and hands it to her. "This is Naruto's first account for his first two months. I can't let you leave with it but you can stay here and read what you can of it." The elderly man tells her gently. She takes the scroll and nods, the Third nods to the couch and she nods slightly before she stands up. She's already reading the scroll by the time she's sitting, already interested in what's written on the scroll.
YoY Naruto
Duster squeals as the silver furred cub charges into the lake for a few feet then retreating out of the water. Unlike other kinds of bears, Short-Face bears rarely have any need to enter into water. He chuckles as Duster slams his forepaws into the shallows and gets splashed by the water. Duster begins to shakes himself but thinks better of it.
He pretends to not notice Duster stalk silently towards him. Once the cub is within two feet of him, he says to Duster, "Don't you da…" He doesn't get a chance to finish that sentence as Duster's shaking his whole body, drenching him. Duster takes a look at his look before dashing away with him in the form of a tundra lion chases after him.
He trips the cub and begins to tickle the silver cub's belly as best as he can as a lion. Duster's laughing as the cub tries to kick him off and even hits him on the head with Duster's left forepaw. They both stop when a, "Ahum. I believe it's time to leave, Duster." They glance at Duster's sister, Ice Fur since her coat is totally white. "But I was having fun with our Uncle." Duster whines as the silver furred cub walks to his sister. "I'm sure Uncle's got other things to do once we're gone." Ice Fur says and Duster perks up, "Yea, he does. He's going to reseal a demon after he beats the guy up!" He sighs and Ice Fur just sighs before the pair of them pop out of existence on this plane.
He'll admit, he hadn't expected Duster to head back home within two weeks but it also gave him time to continue working on his blacksmithing. As he transforms back, he heads off to his apartment. He's got a really good reason why he never experimented in smelting and working with metals other then copper, he never saw any reason to create metal weapons when flint and bone is easier to come by and doesn't take as much time working, though you do need to replace flint blades after a time since the stone is fragile and easily broken. Also, metal freezes at certain temperatures and that's never a good thing to have in a land where it's chilly all year round.
So far, he's been working with gold and silver seeing as those two metals were also among the easiest to use. He wants to finish working with metals before beginning to cut those rough stones he has in his possession. While he could just sell them as Kachi, he decides that he wants to try his hand at jewellery making; he kind of wants to make it up to Bright Claw and the other lionesses about… well, just about everything he's been putting them through. He rather wish that the tundra hunters never thought that he's the boss of the tundra lion summons since it kind of means that there weren't any new additions to that branch of summon since there weren't any male summons, just twelve adult females and him, Blue Lion the so called boss of the tundra lions.
He had contemplated creating male lion summons but discarded it when Bright Claw and the others put their collective foots down on the subject. Even now, after all this time, he doesn't understand the whole mystery that is woman, be it a summoned lioness to adult woman, there's always something more to them what meets the eye. True, he could have just ignored their protest but, he's come to observe that truly a scorned woman is something to be feared. He suddenly wonders if Sakura will try and get even with him after what happened at his apartment, he frowns as he focuses on that as he makes his way through the village, knowing that Sakura just might be that bitter about what he told her, even if, from his stand point, it was true.
To Readers:
People been asking about pairings and for now it's going to be a flip between TemarixNaruto and HinataxNaruto. If you want to, you can vote which pairing you want or if you want both, but I'll tell you this now, Naruto's going to have a bit of a harem, but as you might have guessed, the majority of Naruto's 'wives' won't be human… Seeing how Bright Claw and those other eleven summoned lionesses have been waiting for Naruto to be mature enough in body to do his husbandly duties to them.