Chapter 7
A/N: I'm sorry it took so long to get a new chapter up, i've been having issues with my laptop.
As Tenza unseals Tensa Zangetsu, Kakashi and Asuma are sitting up in the trees of the training field and hear what Tenza says. Asuma looks over at Kakashi, "So thats its name. You'd never think a thirteen year old would have such a powerful sword, practically named after him."
Kakashi shakes his head, "You that its not named after him. Don't you remember what the Hokage said?"
(Flashback)
Asuma takes a thinking pose before looking at the Hokage, "Wait a second. If thats true, about Tenza's kekkei genkai, then why did he say that the sword he found could only be used by his clan head?"
The Hokage looks at his son, "The reason is because that sword was to powerful to be used until he became clan head."
Kakashi looks up from his book, "what do you mean by that Lord Hokage?"
Hiruzen leans back in his chair, "What I mean was when Tenza was born, his father came to me and told me about Tenza's sword, Tensa Zangetsu and..."
Asuma looks surprised at his father, "his sword his named after him?"
"More or less. His swords name is spelled with an s, but back to the point. His father told me that Tenza's soul was so powerful, even at birth that when his sword was created, every one in the main clan and the branch clan could feel the power and strength radiating off of it. His father told me that Tenza's soul sword was to powerful for him to wield that they were going to seal it up until Tenza became clan head. Thats probably what Tenza meant. Now, since thats over," Hiruzen reaches into a drawer and pulls out six paper and hands three to Kakashi and the other three to Asuma. "Those are the permission slips for the Chunin Exams in three months. If they want to participate, give them the permission slips and tell them to be at the academy, room 301 at 8 o'clock sharp. You two are dismissed."
(End Flashback)
Asuma shakes his head, "Oh yea. So, should we give them the permission slips now, or wait till tomorrow?"
Kakashi looks up from his book and watches the six genin train. "Lets wait till tomorrow. Let them train and do what they want to day." With that Kakashi and Asuma disappear in a body flicker. Back with the genin, Naruto and Ino continue practicing the basic dual swords katas, Sakura was almost done memorizing the last few katas for Stained Wings. Choji was eating his chips while occasionally glaring at Tenza while Shikimaru was sleeping against a tree. Tenza was reading the first of the three scrolls that had came out his sword.
Dear Tenza,
If your reading this, it means I'm dead and you are now the Zangetsu Clan Head. I want you to know that I'm proud of you and that no matter what, your mother and I and the whole are behind you no matter what. Now, on to business. Your sword, Tensa Zangetsu isn't actually the clan heads sword. It is actually your soul sword. The reason we didn't tell you was because when you were born and your soul sword was created, it was to powerful for you to wield and train with as a child. Thats why we didn't tell you about are blood line, the Soul sword. When any one in the main Zangetsu family is born, a piece of our soul is separated from our body and forms a sword, unique to the person it is created from. We don't know what yours is capable of, so be careful while training with it. Now, the first of the other scrolls as the beginner, intermediate , and master katas for you type of sword. These katas are unique to the people of our clan who have swords designed for speed, precision, chakra manipulation. The second scroll has the directions for learning the katas for you sword only. That means only you and your sword are capable of using them. But do not open the second scroll until you have mastered the beginner and intermediate katas. One last thing, if I didn't get a chance to tell you, there are two vaults in the clan compound that has the records and jutsus of the Zangetsu main family and the Sugimaru branch family. Should anything happen to the clan, make sure everything in those vaults are safe. Theres a storage seal with the location of the vaults at the end of this scroll. Only your blood will open it. Good luck Tenza and remember son, we're all behind you.
We love you son,
Shigekuni Zangetsu
Tenza feels several tears running down his face after reading his fathers letter. After rolling it back up and putting it in his supply pouch, he opens the next scroll and begins studying it. After a half hour studying and memorizing he begins practicing the first beginning kata. As he flows through the kata Ino spots him and is mesmerized be the how fluid his movements are. As he progresses his picks up speed and gains the attention of the others on the field. As he finishes the first kata perfectly, he see's the others staring at him. "Umm, what are you guys staring at?"
Naruto is the first to snap out of it, "Where the hell did you learn how to do that Tenza!" The others just nod dumbly.
"That was the first beginning kata of the Single Sword Swift-Strike Style. " Tenza replys while scratching the back of his head.
Shikimaru quirks an eye brow, "Single sword, what you mean by that. Can it be used with more than one sword?"
Tenza looks over at Shikimaru and nods, "Yes it can be. Its called the Dual Sword Swift-Strike Style. And because I'm already a master of the Dual Sword Swift-Strike Style, which is what Naruto and Ino are learning right now, its easier for me to pick up the single sword version. At least so far."
Shikimaru nods his head in understanding while Choji glares at Tenza, 'Stupid monster. Showing off just to get my Ino's attention.'
"But wait, whats the difference between the single sword style and the dual sword style," Sakura asks while Naruto and Ino nod.
"Other than the difference between using one sword and two, The single sword version of the Swift-Strike Style focuses on precision, chakra manipulation and speed while the dual sword version focuses only of precision on speed. With the chakra manipulation of the style, you can enhance you strikes, lengthen your range of attack and def fence. There's few other thinks it can do, but I haven't gotten to it yet."
The others nod as Tenza explains the differences of the two styles when Choji notices Tensa Zangetsu in Tenza's hands, "So where did you get that sword?" The others finally notice the beautiful sword Tenza is carrying.
"Oh, Tensa here..." her raises Tensa so every one can see it, "This Tensa Zangetsu, my partener."
Ino, Naruto, and Sakura egt closer to get a better look while Shikimaru looks at it over Ino's shoulder. Choji laughs at Tenza. When the others look at thim he says, "You named your sword after your self, talk about self centered people." 'Maybe Ino will think the same thing and dump him' Choji thinks with a mental smile.
When the others look back at Tenza, he explains how his clans swords are created, when Naruto asks, "So, its some kind of sword forging method?"
Tenza shakes his head, "Actually, no it isn't. Its my side of the clans Kekkei Genkai." When the others look at him with confused expressions he explains. "When some one is born in the Zangetsu clan, a piece of soul separates from our bodies, and becomes our swords, and companions for life. Only the person that the sword is created from can wield them and when they die, there sword disappears."
After they all absorb what he's said, Ino looks at him, "what do you mean "Your side of the Clan"?
"Oh, right. You guys don't know much about my clan. Well, about 300 years ago, the head of the clan at the time had two Kekkei Genkai. One was the Soul Sword kekkei genkai and the other was called the Double Soul kekkei genkai. The thing is, when he had children, he had twin sons. The oldest had the Soul Sword kekkei genkai while the youngest had the Double Soul kekkei genkai. When they got older, they new that because their fathers kekkei genkai's had separated they wouldnt be able to put them back together, so they divided the clan between them. The ones who had the Soul Sword kekkei genkai would be part of the main clan which used the original clan name, Zangetsu, while the ones who had the Double Soul kekkei genkai would be part of the branch clan which used the first name of the twins father, Sugimaru, as the clan name."
"Wow. But wait, you said Sugimaru. Wasn't that the last name of your teammates, and your girlfriend?" Sakura asks.
Tenza looks down to the ground with a depressed look, "Yea it was. They were both from the branch clan. Hisan and Aki Sugimaru were both my teammated and Aki was my girlfiend. And before you think of it as wrong, or clans were so far apart genetic wise after three hundred year, it didn't mater any more."
Sakura was the next to speak, "So what does the Double Soul supposed to do?"
"Wee, you and Naruto already know two things it can do. The first is that it can read and follow any movement, no mater how fast it is, similar to the Sharingan. And the second is that I can see up two miles away like I was a few feet away. But thats only the first stage. The second stage, which I unlocked on our last mission, doubles my chakra reserves, chakra output, strength and speed. Pretty much anything I can do normally, it doubles it when active." When he finishes, he raises his had to his face and focuses his chakra into his hand and finger tips. As the chakra becomes visible, the drags his hand down his face, leaving chakra over his whole faces. The solidifies and becomes a white mask with three red curved markings coming from the top of the mask to the top of the eye. When he speaks, it sounds like two different people are talking at the same time. "As long as I have this mask on, the second stage is active, but the only problem is..." All of a sudden is mask breaks. "I can only hold it for about seven seconds at moment."
Everyone, minus Choji, looks at Tenza with surprise. Once they get over there surprise Tenza tells them that training for today was done. But to keep practicing when they get the chance. After that every one leaves the training field. Tenza and Ino towards the park, Naruto and Sakura towards Ichiraku, Shikimaru and Choji towards there own homes. While and unknown watcher heads for the Forest of Death.
(The next day)
Naruto, Sakura and Tenza have been waiting at the there normal meeting place on the bridge fro 3 hours now when Kakashi appears in a poof of smoke. He's greeted by three murderous intents of his genin. "Yo." The three Murderous intents raise to new levels as they glare at him.
Tenza is the first to speak as Kakashi pulls out his book. "Why are you so late to day sensei? And why do you have to read that smut all the time?"
Kakashi looks at Tenza, "I got last on the road of life. And its not just smut, its artistic genius."
"So you admit its smut," all three genin deadpan Kakashi cries anime tears.
After a few seconds, Kakashi pulls out three sets of paper. "Ok you three, those are the permission slips for the Chunin exams. All you have to do is sign them and report to the academy in three months at 8 o'clock sharp. Now that that's out of the way, since there aren't any mission today, were going to up your training regiment to get you ready for the exams. For now, were going to double what you have already been doing plus traing with your weapons. By the way Tenza, what happened to you dual swords? Weren't they made from your teammates claw blades?"
Tenza nods his head, "Yea they were, but now that I'm training with my partner, Tensa Zangetsu, in the Single Sword Swift-Strike Style, I don't need dual swords anymore, so I gave them to the one person I can trust them with, other than Naruto, since he already has Empty Skies."
Kakashi looks at Tenza with his eye brow raised, "And who would that be?"
"Ino of course." Tenza answers with a smile.
"Ok. Well as I was saying, after we do our doubled training, we'll work on your new weapons." Seeing the question and worry on Tenza's face, he eye smiles at Tenza, "And don't worry Tenza, I made sure Asuma works with her on her dual swords when they're training together. Now, lets get to work!" With that, team seven began there new training regiment.
(Three Months Later)
It was bright and early morning in the Hidden Leaf Village. People were still trying to get out of there beds and get there day started, except for three genin walking away from Ichiraku Ramen towards the academy. Naruto, Tenza and Sakura were making there way to the academy or one reason and reason only. To day was the day of the Chunin Exams. As they were walking they were recalling all the traing and progress they had made individually and as a team.
For Naruto he had improved with his Sharingan and fire jutsus in leaps and bounds. He had been able to gain his third tomoe in is Sharingan with in two weeks and had perfected his copying genjutsu abilities thanks to Kakashi's help with in the next month. And because of his "tenant" his Sharingan and mutated to look like it does when he channels Kyuubi's chakra, with four tomoes in a box formation around the slitted pupil. When Kakashi saw what happened with the Naruto's Sharingan, he had Naruto visit the jyuubi, while under supervision of him self and and ANBU named Tenzo.
(Flashback)
"OK Naruto, while you enter the seal, Tenzo and I will make sure nothing happens out here. No enter the seal, get that giant fur ball to answer you." Naruto nods his head and shuts his eyes. With in minutes he enters the seal.
(Mindscape)
When Naruto opened his eyes he was in a sewer and could here breathing from something large. He got up and started following the sound. After what seemed like hours, Naruto comes apon a st of giant gates with a piece of paper with the word seal in the middle. "So, my jailer has finally come to see me. For what do I owe this pleasure?" Naruto jumps when he hears the Kyuubi speak. He looks up and see's two blood red slitted eyes staining at him. He brings all his courage to the front and speaks to the demon fox.
"I came for answers Kyuubi. What did you do to my Sharingan to make it mutate?" He hears the great demon laughing. "What are you laughing at you fur ball."
Kyuubi continues to laugh for a few minutes, but finally settles down. "I'm laughing at you kit. I've never met a mortal who's gutsy enough to walk up to me and just demand answers let alone call me a giant fur ball. You've got some balls to that to demon like me. I respect that."
At the Kuubi's words, Naruto is completely stumped. 'Did he just complement me?' Naruto thinks to himself. After snapping out of his trance, he shakes his head, "You still haven't answered my question fur ball."
Kyuubi chuckles again, "Very well kit. When you first goth the Sharingan, I used my chakra to make it truly yours, in a sense. But when you acquired the third tomoe, I infused more of my chakra to make it stronger and be able to evolve more. What I didn't for see was that it mutated it into a new version of the Sharingan. I call it the Akuma Sharingan."
"The Akuma Sharingan. I like it. So what does it do?"
"The Akuma Sharingan has the same abillitys as the normal Sharingan, but instead of three levels, the Akuma Sharinagan has 9 levels. So when its fully evolved it will have 9 tomoe with one at the top and four on each side. With each additional tomoe, the Sharingan's powers will strengthen that many times. So at the moment, you Akuma Sharingan is 4 times better than a normal one. Now, for something new, the Akuma Sharingan has two new power,. The first is mastery over fire. With each new tomoe, you control is heightened. At the moment, you have enough control over fire to use any fire jutsu you learn with out hand seals. Now, the second power is very powerful genjutsu. It is similar to the Mangekyo Sharingan's Tsukuyomi..."
"Man-what. What the hell is that?"
"The Mangekyo Sharingan is the final form of the normal Sharingan, but because you can no longer acquire it, I wont go into detail. But as I was saying, the genjutsu is called Hells Domain. It allows you to put create a literal hell in you opponents mind. You can do it two way, you can either torture them until their mind is destroyed, or show them their worst fear until the crack and either give up or fall unconscious. Either way you choose, for every second they are in the genjutsu, a full day goes by in their mind. And with each tomoe you get, the more time pases in their mind. By thime you have all nine tomoe, you'l be able to completely control the amount of time that goes by."
"Wow. That's awesome. Thanks a lot Kyuubi. If there's any thing I can do in return, just ask." Says an excited Naruto.
"Actually, there is something you could do. Could you can you change your mindscape. Theis sewer and cage gets very drepressing after a while. All you have to do is imagine what you want it to look like."
Naruto then closes his eyes and with in seconds the sewer changes before Kyuubi's eyes into a large field and forest with mountains a giant lake behind the trees. Naruto opens his eyes and is flabbergasted at what he created. He looks over at Kyuubi and sees a collar with the seal from earlier appear on his neck. "There you go Kyuubi. An open area with a veiw. Oh, and if you get bored or hungry, you can create anything thing you want while I'm on the outside."
Kyuubi snaps out of his surprise and looks at Naruto. "Thank you kit, this means a lot. Oh, before you leave, I'm going to create a mental link between us so we can communicate with out you having to come in here. And one last thing, if you can acquire your fifth tomoe, I'll let you sign the fox summoning contract."
Naruto smiles up at Kyuubi, "Thaks Kyuubi. I won't let you down." And with that Naruto left his mind scape, while Kyuubi created a bunch of dear and went crazy.
(Real world)
When Naruto came too, he told Kakashi and Tenzo everything that happened while he was in his mindscape. When Kakashi and Tenzo started freaking out about the Akuma Sharigan, the mental link, and summoning contract, Naruto eased their fears when told them that Kyuubi was a lot nicer than people said and that he never felt any ill intent from Kyuubi.
(End Flashback)
After that, Kakashi started training Naruto even harder and at the end of the second month, Naruto unlocked his fifth tomoe ad was able to sight the fox contract. The rest of the montn was spent training with the fox summoning. After Naruto gained his fifth tomoe Naruto was able to turn his Akuma Sharingan off and back to the normal Sharingan. He'd also found his first victim of his Hell's domain genjutsu. Before he had gained his fifth tomoe, a group of 7 drunk civilians and 3 and three chunin, also drunk, tried to attack him, but before they could the Kyuubi suggested trying Hell's domain on them. He only kept the genjutsu active for three seconds, but for his victims, they experienced three days of torture in hell. The three chunin escaped with the minds mostly intact and escaped, but not before calling Naruto Hell's Fox. His new nick name spread through out the Leaf the next day. Almost every one of the villages ninja, excluding the most avid haters, were impressed with what Naruto could do. Naruto decided he liked the nickname and kept it.
For Sakura, she had mastered the beginning and half of the intermediate katas for Stained Wings and had also gottenher chakra control down to such a point that she had become the best user of flash step that Tenza had ever seen, even in his clan. When Rock Lee found her Training by her self, she asked him for a spar. By the end though, they had a crowed, and Lee was covered in cuts and burns because of Stained Wings elemental chakra conversion properties. When she tried to channel her wind chakra into the gauntlets, all the blades were set aflame. When Lee had asked what jutsu she was using to move faster than him, she told him it was called flash step. After that Sakura was known as "The Goddess of Flash Fire" because of her use of flash step and able to seriously burn someone with each strike of Stained Wings. By then end of the three months, the only people in the leaf that were faster than her were Tenza with his new unique jutsu and Gai when he took of his waits.
Tenza had spent the entire Three months mastering the beginning and intermediate Katas of the Single Sword Swift-Strike Style along with lengthening the time he could where his mask. While training with his mask, his inner hollow Kubomi, also taught his the Sonido, or Sound Ceremony. The jutsu was more instinctual than the flash step. All he had to do was surround his whole body in a thin layer of chakra and think of where to go. With this technique he became faster than Gai with his weights of. The only time Gai was faster was when he opened the celestial gates. His mask had also changed. It now had four red curved marks that connected above the left eye and went down to the middle of the mask. Underneath the left eye were two more red wavy marking that connected at a point on the inside of the left eye and the connected at the left side edge of the mask and ran down in a single red strip and the separated into three more wavy markings that connected in the middle of the mask underneath the bottom row of teeth. Because of his Sonido technique and his mask, people started calling him The Sonido Devil.
As the three genin approach the academy people stare and some look on in fear. All three had changed their out fit to fit their new skills and nicknames. Naruto was wearing a thin black long sleeve shirt with nine blood red fox tails wrapping around from the back to the front of the shirt. Two were coming over his shoulder while another two were wrapped around each sleeve with the tip wrapped around his wrist. Then there were two on each side converged on his chest into a spiral while the ninth tail wrapped around his shirt along the collar bone. His pants were pitch black with a fox on each pant leg. There heads were on his pockets and facing forward while their bodies ran down the length of the leg with their tails wrapped around the last eight inches of his pant legs. And his feet were covered in solid black ninja combat boots. On top of it all he wore a crimson red coat, similar to the 4th Hokage's, with black flames a long the bottom. On his back was a black outline of a snarling nine tailed fox and his nickname "Hell's Fox". Above and to the left of the fox was Hell's and below and to the right was Fox. His blue Leaf Village head band had been replaced with an extra long black cloth trailing behind him.
Skaura was wearing a black backless halter top with skin tight black ninja pants. She had on a pair of black ninja sandals. She had on a white long sleeve coat similar to Naruto's, except her's had reddish pink flames at the bottom and cherry blossom leaves floating on the back with the nickname "Goddess of Flash Fire" made out of red flames turning into blue flames. On her hands were her gauntlets sealed as her read gloves. And her pink head band had been replaced with a crimson red one tied around her forehead.
Tenza was now white tabi socks with waraji sandals. He wore solid black hakama pants tied with a crimson a obi. His torso was covered in was covered in white chakra cloth. His coat midnight black chakra silk edged with blood red chakra silk. The front of his coat his closed from his neck down to his abs and flared out behind him. On the back of his cloak in was his nickname, "Sonido Devil" in white lettering edged with red. His partner, Tensa Zangetsu was in its sheathe held onto his left side with his crimson obi. The bottom of coat was torn up up two resemble flames flowing in the wind.
All together, the three looked very imposing and terrifying as they walked to the academy. As the step onto the academy grounds they look up at the building. Naruto looks back at Sakura and Tenza and gives an evil smirk, "You guys ready for this?" Sakura smirks back and cracks her knuckles, "Hell yea. No one is going to beat us." Tenza gives his own evil smirk, accompanied by his eyes giving off a soft glow, "After all the training and hard work we put in, like hell we arent." Naruto looks back at the academy, "the lets show these assholes what we're made of." With that, the three make their way to the door.
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