An amused Hanzo, gazed down at his bedraggled students. " So you have awakened your ..gifts, have you? "Naruto nodded, trying to restrain from moving his sore body. "here's the necklace sensei" he said , handing the golden ornament to his master. Hanzo rolled the piece of jewelry around his fingers"the man you fought, was called Kenchi, he was a A-ranked missing nin from Iwa."
the children looked in shock as the man crushed the solid gold with his bare hands. motioning the children he turned and walked towards the great courtyard ."from now on you will each learn to control your newfound powers. For Kimmimaro,Yakumo, and Haku, this is easy, simply meditate and experiment. For you, Naruto and Yugito, It will require communication with the Biju that you hold." He paused" but like always my young pupils , remember not to grow reliant on your bloodline or Biju."
With an evil grin he settled into a fighting stance, "now lets go to work."
-Taijutsu_
From this point on Hanzo redoubled their training. The effects of their near defeat at the hands of Kenchi, had spurred the children's drive. They each vowed never to put their family at risk again. their taijustu training became riddled with intense daily spars with each other as well as five on one weekly spars with him. They undertook intense drills, designed to increase the speed, accuracy and power of both their attacks and defense. Each had begun to form their own styles of attacking during their frequent spars.
Naruto, the smallest of the children, favored speed and lightning fast attacks that penetrated a foes defense to devastating effect.
In part to counter his rivals style, Kimmimaro favored strong bone breaking attacks as well as impenetrable defense. With his increasing control over his bloodline he was able to harden his bones , both for sturdier defense and increased power for attacks. Drawing on his Kaguya training and experimentation he began creating several dances to enhance his bloodlines effectiveness., allowing him to quickly outshine the others in taijutsu alone.
Haku took Koshijutsu to its core, and began studying pressure, nerve and chakra points. She combed through all of hanzo's tomes on medical jutsu and poisons, and combined both with her hyouton bloodline to make a deadly fighting style. With the flick of a chakra scalpel or an ice senbon ,s he could remove a foes ability to use an appendage such as an arm or leg. She coated her nails and senbon with several types of poison, making even the lightest touch potentially deadly. her speed became second only to narutos,
Yugito, favored a style that allowed her to react to enemies attacks, she trained hard to increase her reaction time, and was able to dodge and instantly counterattack from strike aimed at her person.
Yakumo created a truly frightening style. Being the weakest physically and having immense genjutsu ability, she focused mainly on dodging and adapting to attacks, her strikes were quick and the lightest touch could send an unprepared enemy into a frightful genjutsu., leaving even Naruto reluctant to actually hit her. Hanzo proved immune to the effects of her attacks, and he warned her that ninja at his level, would disregard the images she sent coursing through their minds. Her techniques were great training for the others during spars, as it taught them to quickly shrug of high level genjutsu.
-strength and speed-
Their strength and speed training intensified. They were forced to tie heavy boulders around their backs during the laps up and down the stairs. During their swim, increasingly heavier rocks and finally weighted bands, made the increasingly long treks more difficult.
Naruto, who focused mostly on speed, wore double the amount of weighted clothing as the rest of them. Hanzo began incorporating several new drills
Including dodging drills, which consisted of shadow clones of hanzo launching torrents of senbon at them., balance drills in which they maintained their balance on top of a log for hours at a time, training their awareness as one of hanzo's hidden clones would launch a kunai at them,, forcing them to dodge while maintaining their perfect balance on the log. After the first six months the others joined hanzo in the kunai throwing, increasing each of their accuracy against moving targets.
-Chakra Control-
Leading the children to a stream, he began showing them the fundamentals of water walking. Any access chakra usage was met with swift retribution in the form of being cut by the meaning kunai Hanzo sent at them as well as a dunk in the stream.
Eventually they were able to spar all out on top of the water. This lead way to intense kunai balancing, forcing them to expel chakra from their finger to balance on top of a spike. They were forced to hold it for hours, increasing both their control and reserves, with increased chakra control they were able to increase their strength and speed with chakra exponentially .
Every night the children practiced manifesting and training their special abilities.. naruto was able to control up to one tail of the kyubbi's chakra, however his attempts to contact the beast again were met with failure. Kimmimaro was able to fully control his bones, and began incorporating it into his taijutsu style. Yugito had made fast friends with her Biju, the Nibi, becoming something of a mentor to her. She learned to utilize the blue flame at will as will as some of the Nibi's chakra. . haku began experimenting and creating techniques with her ice manipulation, and Yakumo began reading advanced genjutsu scrolls.
By the time Naruto turned seven and their three year anniversary of their training with Hanzo. They had begun learning silent killing , which involved them being to forced to train with the loss of one of their senses then find each other in the hidden mist jutsu,
They practiced both teamwork and tracking, by hunting down hanzo's clones and assassinating them,. Their non physical lessons grew to include espionage, disguise, geography. They were forced to know the layout and politics off every nation in the elemental countries. They learned spying and espionage techniques, eventually sneaking into nearby towns and assuming the identity of some unsuspecting person, as well as practicing becoming invisible.
They began studying seals, how to apply and counter them. Naruto, took to them like a fish to water, and he quickly moved beyond the others in their usage. However they could all create and unseal storage scrolls, and exploding tags as well as how to make tracking seals.
By naruto's eighth birthday, hanzo finally began teaching them both genjutsu and ninjutsu as well as opening his vast library of scrolls so they could create their own arsenal . he began instructing them on kenjutsu, and each picked their own style of weapon.
Naruto began practicing with a weighted sword, to increase his speed and strength, he favored a murmasa, which was perfect for his high speed style.
Kimmimaro used his spine as a giant sword, he could frequently be found clashing blades with Naruto. Yakumo, oddly enough favored a double bladed scyth. Yugito decided to use a basic ninjato . Haku decided to train with twin daggers , as well as a senbon launcher.
When naruto turned 8, hanzo began sending them on missions. Some were assassination, some were infiltration and information gathering. There was only one rule . never be seen. Anyone who laid eyes on them must be destroyed.
-2 years later-
A ten year old naruto ducked the tiny bone missile sent by his partner. Channeling chakra into his feet he disappeared in a burst of speed, and launched a bone crushing punch towards the bone user's face, Kimmimaro, knowing it was pointless to dodge, took the punch without moving an inch and retaliated with a kick that Naruto dodged hastily, landing on the opposite side of the rapidly running water which was their battlefield.
"You've gotten faster" said the silver haired boy. Naruto rubbed his fist. "I think your head has gotten harder." They both grinned then turned towards the sound of the female laughter. That came from behind them." Time for elemental training boys" said an amused Yakumo. The two boys shivered. Of the five of them Yakumo was the best at stealth. They hadn't even heard her arrive. Knowing better than to keep their master waiting, the trio vanished.
"It sure took you long enough": remarked a raven haired girl when the trio arrived at their seats. : I almost came looking for you." "no worries, haku-chan" said naruto, I wouldn't miss out on this for the world." Haku smiled at the energetic boy, before glancing at Yugito, they had come far.
*flashback one year.*
Naruto wandered his mindscape which he had been attempting to do for years. Making his way down the long corridors he, stopped in front of a huge gate with the word seal on it. 'Remarkable' he thought,' the fourth hokage was truly a genius to create such a seal'
" So you are finally here human." Said a booming voice.. Naruto 's eyes searched the interior of the gate until they fell upon a giant fox, laying with its head in its paws. "Kyuubi"he whispered softly.
" Your powers of observation are astounding" said the fox sarcastically." You are a credit to your species". Naruto bit back a smart remark. Now was not the time to antagonize a millennia year old fox.. the fox looked amused before sniffing him. "Ahhh. He said after a minute. ".Perhaps you are the one after all., I smell her on you" "who?" asked the boy but the fox seemed not to hear him." That is why I have allowed you the use of my chakra, and you have done well you are strong for a human. However you still have much further to grow, when you are ready, come see me.. " before Naruto could ask any questions to relieve the confusion he felt. A large scroll appeared in his hands. " when your master deems them ready give them to your companions. They must seek them out," before he could protest the boy was ejected from his mindscape.
"why help him?." Said a strong male voice. The fox laughed." You've heard the phrase, about nothing being able to withstand a demons fury." The man nodded warily" well those who get in the way of fate and destiny are similarly swept aside."
After being ejected from his mindspace, naruto found himself, laying on the floor a giant silver scroll on his chest. Taking the scroll to Hanzo, he was shocked to see his master read it then stutter in surprise.
"Do you know what this is, Naruto?" asked the former amekage. Seeing the boy shake his head he continued." This scroll contains the location of the celestial summons. . the four guardians. Suzaku, the great phoenix and lord of lightning. Genbu the tortoise, and master of earth, Byakko the white Tiger and controller of fire, and Seiaryu the blue dragon and master of water and ice.
Naruto looked shocked. " He said that when you felt they were ready, that the others should seek them out." Hanzo grinned. "Time to up your training again".
the training that followed over the next year was brutal. He learned their elemental affinities. Wind for Naruto, Fire for Yugito, Water for Haku, Earth for kimmimaro, and lastly Lightning for Yakumo. . their sparring intensified. They had thought they had felt the extent of their masters immense power. They were wrong. It took them weeks to overcome the full force of his killing intent. Their group spars with him ended in broken bones, and had it not been for haku's immense medical skills one of them would have likely been crippled.. chakra control was perfected by meditating under a waterfall. taijustu forms and handseals became perfect.. 'Soon thought Hanzo, 'they will be ready"
-end flashback.-
"You have all learned much over your six years as my students." Came a voice from behind them.. the children turned and bowed. "you have each reached the level of elite Jonin. and proven your worth to me in battle again and again."
He unfurled the scroll
" I believe you are ready to undertake any tests that the great beasts can give you." Haku, you are to head to the north to find the Seiaryu the blue dragon, Kimmimaro, head south to find Genbu the tortoise, Yugito you will take Byakko to the east, while Yakumo will take Suzaku to the west." The four nodded. " as for you Naruto.." before he could speak , Kyuubi spoke in Naruto's mind. 'You are to head to the land of iron, there a trial awaits that will decide your destiny.'"
Kyuubi said that I should head for the land of iron." Naruto said softly. Hanzo looked puzzled for a minute .before nodding. " I do not know how long these trials will take or what will happen while you are gone.., however, you are to continue to train your hardest, we will rendezvous here in four years.". the five children nodded before vanishing.
Hanzo coughed into his sleeve, ignoring the spots of blood that it left. 'its time to see how the world has changed" he whispered to himself before vanishing.
AN. whew finally another chapter. hope you guys enjoy it. I edited the rest of all my stories so go back and read them. serious lack of action this chapter, but they are fired up for the carnage that begins in the next one. can't wait.
btw, who thinks kishimoto doesn't know what the hell he's doing. he makes the villans so powerful that there is no way realistically that anyone can beat them. i mean madara was strong enough without the rinnegan and why the hell is kabuto the lord of death. . ah well til next time. ciao