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The hospital
The Kawa-nin, like Anbu agents and Root operators, had their own special wing in the hospital wing. This was to keep the members' identities secret, as well as to protect the strong injured ninja of the Leaf.
Naruto and Sorana had shared a room, while Koharu and Momo also shared a room. Tsao and Homura, who had had little to no injuries, had been checked over and released immediately.
Naruto, who had been going stir crazy, had turned to his seals. He had been tinkering with two of his scrolls all day, and Sorana was beginning to get curious. Even Aburame have their limits, and Sorana really needed a way to pass the time.
"Naruto-kun, what are you doing with all those seals?"
It took Sorana two more times to get his attention. Naruto blinked slowly, before his eyes focused on his partner.
"Ne, Sorana-chan, have I ever explained the seals on my gloves before?"
Sorana shook her head, wondering where this was all going.
"Well, to put it simply, I recreated the copying effects of a Sharingan with seals. Now before you get to impressed, it takes a shit load of work to copy even one jutsu and I have to use the jutsu a certain way."
"Now, how all started was seeing Homura-sensei use the Fuka Hoin to absorb a Katon jutsu. Seeing that, I asked him if they was a seal for every element, you know a seal that absorbs Suiton, and Fuuton, and so on and so on."
"Of course, after that, I started wondering if I could just create a seal that absorbed any elemental ninjutsu. And so I came up with the Eremento Sanmai Fuin."
"And that was hard. That was like 18 solid months of work, from when I was nine and a half until I was eleven. Homura-sensei said to never rely on your laurels, so I started thinking about what to do with the absorbed jutsu."
"Just releasing it seemed really lame, and I don't do lame things, so I had to come up with something else. And then I saw Kakashi-sensei use a jutsu he had just seen Homura-sensei use in one of their monthly matches to the old man in fighting shape. And it hit me. Why not use the absorbed jutsu to copy a jutsu to use against your opponent?"
"So I created a linked seal to the Eremento Sanmai Fuin. I like to call it the KaishuuKakubu Fuin. It breaks down the jutsu into a set of seals over 4 hours. Unfortunately, I have to constantly pump chakra into it. It amounts to over three Raiton: Yuntsu no Hashira Sokubaku no Jutsu in the end. Either way, by the end, my seal pumps out a set of seals that can recreate the jutsu that I absorbed."
"Of course, I can't just throw the seals around and have jutsu pop out of them. That's actually why I came up with my glove. I attach the seals around the wrist of the glove, and channel chakra into it. The top part of my wrist recreates a wind jutsu, which will now be the wind jutsu that Danzo used against me. The bottom part of my wrist recreates Katon: Endan that Homura-sensei showed me."
"The seals work really well. The more powerful the jutsu on the glove, the stronger the wind or the fire that shoots out. I'm currently working on a glove that will recreate Suiton, Raiton, and Doton jutsu but it will probably be a while. The current glove took me quite a while to finish."
Naruto rolled up the seals, and Sorana saw the seals on the top part of the seals shift and change, representing the change from the original jutsu to Danzo's vacuum jutsu.
"That's quite impressive, Naruto-kun. I had no idea the amount of work that you had put into that glove. I had assumed it was just a seal that changed your chakra into a certain element and shot it out of your glove."
"Well, I couldn't do that, mostly because it's been done before and I don't do stuff that's been done before. But this way is actually much more powerful. The seal that you're talking about takes my chakra and turns it into an element that it is not compatible with, making it weaker. Another plus side of my seal is that it as I pump my chakra into each seal, it refines the elemental chakra, making it much more powerful for a lot less chakra."
"The seal you're talking about, which Jiraiya created and calls the Shiki Idou Fuin, takes about ten times more chakra than my seal, with about a fifth of the effects. It was this set of seals that got me my fuinjutsu journeyman status. Aren't I awesome!"
And with that, the serious, calm, shinobi Naruto switched to the goofball idiot Naruto. "Yes, Naruto-kun, you are quite inspiring."
"Yea, I know," he said, sticking his tongue out.
A knock at their door distracted the two from their childish behavior. "May I come in?" Hokage-jiji asked, peeking his head through the door.
Naruto simply nodded.
"Ahh, thank you. It is quite good to see that the both of you are healthy, and if your doctor is to be trusted, and will be released in a week. The Ne operation, Torune, did quite a job on your bodies with his poison."
"The medics say that any longer and you may have suffered permanent damage to your chakra coils. I was quite worried about the both of you," the Sandaime said, a slight frown marring his face.
"But enough of that, as you are both healthy, and judging by your earlier actions, cheerful as well. Sorana blushed at the fact that the Hokage had heard her tease Naruto.
"I have actually come from Hokage duties for once. I have come to tell you what has become of Danzo, the two operators known as Fuu and Torune, and Ne."
"Danzo escaped, barely injured, and has been declared an S-rank missing-nin of Konoha. He will be your target once your skills grow even more. Homura received a thick cut to his chest and his hand had 3rd degree burns on it. Koharu had a stab wound that nicked a rib and collapsed her right lung. Both will be released tomorrow, and will remain in charge of Kawa. The issue with the alarm has also been fixed."
"Tsao and Momo killed their opponent, with Momo only spending a night in the hospital for heal her injuries. They both will be paid an A-rank mission and Fuu's body has been returned to the Yamanaka Clan for disposal."
"Now, onto your fight. The both of you will be paid an A-rank mission for killing Torune. Here are your checks. This includes the previously mentioned A-rank mission, as well as the B-rank pay from your mission into Tea Country and a quarter each of the bounties that the team had on their heads."
"Torune's body has been returned to the Aburame Clan. They also asked me to give you a little gift, Sorana." At this, Hokage-jiji pulled out a small vial filled with a purple liquid that had now been identified as the Nanosaizu no Dokumushi.
"Your hive is a sting hive, as you know. Their bodies can hold poison, and it is your Clan's wish to see if the sting beetles can hold Nanosaizu no Dokumushi inside their bodies instead of the usual paralytic poison. This way, you will not even require skin contact to infect your opponent's body, instead only a single kikai has to land there and sting your opponent and they will be seriously injured, if not fatally injured."
"Also, Ne will not be disbanded. they are much to valuable. Danzo's seal has been cracked and broken on each Ne operator by my former student, Jiraiya, and has had a new seal placed on them. The new leader of Ne is a powerful shinobi named Yamato."
"Now that I have explained all of that, it is time to move onto my second objective for being here: your training. Naruto, you told me during my last visit that you had meet the Kyuubi. I spent the last few days recruiting your tutor. I've already mentioned him today, he is my former student, named Jiraiya, and he will teach you how to access your bijuu's chakra. However, as you are a Kawa-nin and will be going on missions into countries where you cannot be detected and going up against S-rank ninja, we have a bit of a dilemma."
"The Kyuubi's chakra is very powerful, and the feeling of its power resides in an area for months after its use. If we taught you like you were any normal jinchuriki, the Kyuubi's chakra would be a dead give-away that Konoha had been somewhere it shouldn't, and this is something that we cannot allow. So your first task will be to come up with a way to access the Kyuubi's power without leaving such a noticeable residue behind. You will have Jiraiya's help. He can also give much help with your fuinjutsu creation and your taijutsu. You will also be working on mastering your surujin and more Suiton and Doton jutsu. But above all, he is just supposed to kick your ass and make every one of your abilities stronger."
"Sorana, you will be training under Koharu as Naruto will be training under Jiraiya. She will be helping you accustom your kikaichu to the Nanosaizu no Dokumushi inside of them. She will be working on your speed, Raiton techniques, and genjutsu-specifically-although she will be helping you improve in everything and will be allowing you to sign the Caterpillar Summoning Contract. You will be only the third person to sign the contract, Koharu included, so feel privileged."
"With the addition of Danzo to our missing-nin ranks, the two of you must become fully realize your potential. You may need to call upon it before you think. Your training resumes 3 days after you are released. I will visit you tomorrow...grandchildren."
With that, the Sandaime stood and walked out of the room. Sorana looked at the vial in her hand quizzically, before smothering the small insects with her chakra. It seemed to Naruto that she was feeding them, feeding them so much they would become dependent on her chakra and her chakra alone.
After about 10 minutes of this, Sorana smiled. She popped the lid of the vial, before allowing a steam of her kikaichu into the vial. The kikai seemed to dip into the vial, grab some of the Nanosaizu no Dokumushi and then turn around. After the vial was empty, Sorana turned to Naruto.
"It seems as though I will not need Koharu-sama to help me with accustoming my kikai to the poison. My kikai mature and develop rapidly, and they have already grown immune to the poison that the Dokumushi use. However, the Nanosaizu no Dokumushi will need to breed, and quickly, as that vial only filled the poison sacs of 30% of my kikaichu."
******1 month Later*****
Naruto rubbed at his forehead tiredly. He had been looking through different seals for an hour everyday for three weeks. It was how most fuinjutsu masters created new seals, looked at the problems of an already existing seal and changing its purpose or improving him.
Jiraiya had suggested that he look at Purification seals and Orochimaru's Curse seal. But unfortunately neither was going to look. Purification seals were used by medic nins who had the knowledge and experience but not the chakra control to do high level medical ninjutsu. The purification seal took regular chakra and purified it into medical chakra.
Unfortunately, it wouldn't work. The powerful youki would overpower the delicate seal long before Naruto pulled out even one tail of the Kyuubi's chakra. Naruto would have to pair it with a much more robust seal to even consider using the purification seals.
Orochimaru's Curse seal was also a good idea. It used vile chakra to transform a shinobi to a powerful human-beast hybrid that was extremely powerful, and there was no residual of chakra left behind.
Unfortunately, there were parts missing on Jiraiya's blue prints of the Curse seal, plus there was major medical issues with transforming.
Of course, it hadn't taken Naruto long to figure out that his best option was to combine the two seals. A transformation with the Kyuubi's chakra would greatly increase Naruto's physical attributes and erase the problem of residual chakra. The addition of the purification seal would also heal Naruto from the injuries that would arise from the transformation and from actual battle.
Of course, as is true in almost every part of shinobi life, this plan was easier thought up than done.
He had written up over 400 prototypes of the seal, and all of them were complete duds. He always seemed to have a great idea of where this kanji should go where, but it actually didn't work out. Jiraiya said not to worry though. It had been his father's method to go through hundreds of designs before he hit upon one.
And he could feel it again, as the kanji for the parts of the seal he had halfway developed seemed to float off the page and connect in yet another way that he hadn't seen or thought of before.
Immediately, Naruto started putting the parts of the seal together. He looked at it, flipped it around, and then grinned. He had actually done it. Granted it wasn't very complicated, just combining two different seals, but he always loved the feeling of creating a new seal.
He called for Jiraiya, who was still sleeping off his hangover from the night before. It was only 8 a.m. after all.
"Wadyawant, gaki," he mumbled, stumbling over to Naruto's desk. Jiraiya had been staying at Naruto's apartment for the last three months. Naruto simply handed his sensei the sheet that held his sketched-out seal.
Jiraiya immediately perked up. The gaki had only shown him two prototypes so far, both of them with only very minor problems. This one, however, was perfect.
"Congratulations, gaki, you did it. Of course, I had this exact same seal after two days of work. But you'll get to my level, eventually. After all, I am the Gallant Jiraiya!"
He laughed. "Now let's get to the Fuinjutsu Room. I want to get that seal on you as soon as possible so I can actually train you in what I was supposed to train you in. Sure, you got another Suiton jutsu under your belt, and your taijutsu and surujin use has shot up in terms of potency, but this seal is going to make you a force to be reckoned with."
Naruto sat in the Sealing room, stripped to the waist, with Jiraiya painting ink on his chest. He had been sitting there for over an hour, and Jiraiya was only finishing now.
"Zurui Tejina," Jiraiya yelled. He painted the final central seal, all in his blood, before pumping chakra into the seal. "Fuin."
The entire seal flashed red, before Naruto shot backwards with a grunt, hitting the wall headfirst and knocking himself out.
Head spinning, Naruto woke up and looked around. Instead of the dark and dingy Seal room, he was in a bright green training ground.
Jiraiya's loud voice made Naruto groan in pain. "Wake up, gaki. I want to see how this seal turns out. Now remember, not only will this seal limit you to one tails of power, but so does your father's seal. You can only draw out one tail's worth of power without the Kyuubi's permission. After that, you're out of luck. It was the reason that you were called to your mindscape after you were poisoned by Torune. The Sandaime said it took about two and a half tails to heal you."
"Sorana used her kikai to slow and limit the effects of Torune's poison. Her medics still went through an estimated tail of Kyuubi's chakra. But do no worry, a tail of the Kyuubi's chakra will easily bump you from a B-rank ninja to an A-rank ninja. We will be practicing with your ability to transform so that you will be able to do it within in ten seconds."
Naruto looked down to see his still unclothed chest, and smiled lightly as he saw the newest collection to the seals starting to cover his body. The seal was small, looking like the tattoo of a kitsune's paw, about three inches above his right nipple.
"Stop gazing at your creation and start pulling on the youki. Remember, you have to funnel the chakra through the seal, and it'll do the rest. Just do like we practiced, and the youki will come right out."
Naruto breathed deeply, reaching into his father's seal, and pulling. The Kyuubi's chakra followed in bundles, following the pull. He kept pulling and led the chakra into the Zurui Tejina Fuin. He let go of the pull, and the youki kept on following, until his stomach clenched and the flow abruptly stopped.
The Zurui Tejina glowed green and red, before Naruto arched his back. The Kyuubi's chakra flowed through his body, changing him. His hair turned orange and shaggy and his ears grew. The points elongated and grew, orange fur also appearing, the growth ending after over a foot of growth. Naruto's eyes went red and the pupils turned into slits. His canines grew, his lips rolling aside to give way to the lengthened fangs. The nails on his hands grew into three inch claws. His skin turned black and leathery.
Then the purified medical youki was channeled through his body. All of the strain the transformation had put onto Naruto's body was instantly healed. After all the damage had been fixed, one thick tan tail of chakra sprouted out of his backside.
Naruto looked down at his body and roared. Then, his common sense took back over and he really looked at himself. "I am the coolest ninja ever!," he yelled. "This is awesome!"
He disappeared, appearing at the other end of the training ground with his arm punched straight through a tree.
Jiraiya called out to him, Naruto's large ears swiveling at the sound. "Alright, gaki, time to really test this thing out."
Jiraiya ran to where Naruto was, planting his fist into his student's stomach. Naruto quickly recovered and aimed a kick at his mentor's face. They traded blows for several hours, before Naruto's transformation ended.
With Sorana
Sorana stood in front of the Hive Queen, a slight sheen of sweat on her brow the only sign of her nervousness.
"Greetings, young beetle. I believe you know the reason that you are here."
Sorana nodded, way too nervous to speak.
"Good. You will be fighting for your life. You are the first Aburame in a decade to have the necessary prerequisites to under go this task. You will fight your clan's greatest weapon, the Kamikirimushi Koura, and you will have to subdue it."
"I will be watching your entire fight, and I hope that I am impressed. You have the necessary chakra capacity, as well as shinobi potential that is required to wield the armor. You also have the unique ability out of all of your clan to control the Kamikirimushi Koura. Now show me, and the rest of your clan your worth."
As the Hive Queen finished, a pillar of earth rose out of a pit, carrying a scary sight for Sorana. The Kamikirimushi Koura was fierce, all black spiky plates and powerful lines. There was no wings on the armor, but there was a helmet. It carried the immense horn of the longhorn beetle, and from underneath the helmet gleamed cool silver eyes.
The armor launched off the pillar, powering towards Sorana. She jumped backwards, chucking a handful of exploding kunai at the sentient armor. The explosions hit the armor squarely, but they seemed to slide right off.
The armor seemed to actually get faster after the explosion, and it zoomed straight toward her. She pulled out her two sai, hoping to keep the armor at a distance. The armor ducked under the first slice but Sorana stabbed her left sai into a chink in the armor's right shoulder.
The armor twisted away quickly, tearing the sai out of Sorana's grasp. The armor flipped, and then came back with a powerful kick. Sorana twisted out of the way, but the kick still landed.
Sorana winced at the hit, feeling her ribs creaking. She flipped backwards, her mind racing as she looked for a solution to the battle in front of her.
The only thing that made sense was ninjutsu, as she was totally outclassed in taijutsu and kenjutsu with her sai. There was also no telling if genjutsu would even work, with the armor having such a different mind from the average shinobi.
The armor suddenly raised its arms, aiming them at Sorana. The fingers of the gloves broke off, turning into 20 large flying longhorn beetles. They flew swiftly, their massive horns glowing ominously with chakra.
Sorana flew through some handseals, shouting "Hari Jizou no Jutsu." Her hair grew rapidly, coiling around her. The beetles clutched onto her hair, trying to burrow through the rock-hard hair. Going through more handseals inside her protective cocoon, she said, "Ranji Shigumi no Jutsu." Her hair exploded outwards into spikes, going right through all of the beetles.
Sorana let her hair fall back into place. The armor had already grown back its fingers. It was already charging back at her, and Sorana needed some space.
"Raiton: Jibashi," she yelled. Electricity shot out of her fingers and hit the armor right in the chest. The armor opened up right where the Raiton jutsu struck, and Sorana grinned.
That was what the Hive Queen meant when she said that she had the unique ability among the Aburame to control the Kamikirimushi Koura. She had a Raiton chakra affinity!
She charged back at the armor, flipping through handseals as she went. She loaded the jutsu with a ton of chakra and screamed, again, "Raiton: Jibashi." The electricity split the armor open from crotch to helmet, and it started convulsing.
She did the only thing that felt right, and leaped into the opening. The armor reformed around her body and she instantly felt pure power running through her.
She turned around at the sound of clapping. It was her family and Koharu-sensei.
Koharu could not have been prouder. Her experiment with the Kawa division had paid off and she had two thirteen-year-olds who could both be classified as A-rank nins, if Jiraiya's reports could be trusted.
Soon, soon, Danzo and Orochimaru, and all of the other traitors of Konoha would pay for their deeds. They would rue the day that they had abandoned her village, her home, and she would be known as the trainer of the two shinobi that did the deed.
Jutsu List
Fuka Hoin [Fire Sealing Method]
Rank: B
This technique allows the user to seal fire into a scroll. The user writes the seal on a scroll and then performs the required hand seals. This causes a vapor to appear from the scroll, enveloping the fire and sealing it on the scroll as the kanji for seal. Jiraiya used this technique to seal away the black fire from Itachi Uchiha's Amaterasu technique.
Eremento Sanmai Fuin [Elements Absorption Seal]
Rank: A
Description: A seal that can absorb any kind of elemental ninjutsu.
Kaishuu Kakubu Fuin [Collection Parts Seal]
Rank: S
Description: Takes a jutsu that has been absorbed by the Eremento Sanmai Fuin, and converts it into a set of seal that is able to recreate the absorbed jutsu repeatedly.
Shiki Idou Fuin [Seasons Change Seal}
Rank: B
Description: Changes regular chakra into elemental chakra.
Nanosaizu no Dokumushi [Nano-Sized, Venomous Insects]
Rank: A
Nanosaizu no Dokumushi are a special breed of insects used by select members of the Aburame Clan as part of their Parasitic Destruction Insect Technique. These bugs destroy their enemies' cells, causing excruciating pain in the process. Unlike the standard kikaichu, which are able to act independently of the user, the nano-sized insects can only be transferred on to a victim's body by direct physical contact; though only a mere touch from the user's skin is required as the bugs can circumvent most forms of clothing. However, this apparently does not apply to the user's own clothes, who must instead remove items in order to effectively increase their chances of hitting the target. The two known users of these bugs: Torune and Shikuro Aburame, are also the only known Aburame to possess the antibodies for the insects. These insects are considered to be rare, even amongst the Aburame clan.
Zurui Tejina Fuin [Sly Trick Seal]
Rank: B
Description: The seal is a combination between a medic's purification seal and Orochimaru's Curse Seal. The seal allows Naruto to use the Kyuubi's chakra without leaving behind any residue. It transforms Naruto into a human-fox hybrid that increases his speed and strength and chakra pool.
Kuchiyose: Kamikirimushi Koura [Summoning: Longhorn Beetle Carapace]
Rank: S
Description: A living armor that Sorana summons. It covers her in a sleek, black exoskeleton that turns away most blades and jutsu. It also forms a helmet that has a long horn on it. She can channel Raiton chakra into the horn and send it shooting to the enemy as a Raiton ball. It increases speed, strength, and her chakra pool.
Hari Jizou no Jutsu [Underworld Guardian Spikes Technique]
Rank: B
Description: After forming the handseals, the user's hair will grow in length to surround and protect the body. The hair becomes rigid and spiked, forming a layer of protection.
Ranji Shigumi no Jutsu [Wild Lion's Mane Technique]
Rank: B
Description: It lengthens the user's hair and sends it outwards to subdue the foe. It can also turn into spikes.
Raiton: Jibashi no Jutsu [Lightning Release: Electromagnetic Murder Technique]
Rank: C
Description: This jutsu allows the user to create a wave of electricity from the user's hands. This jutsu can vary in power from a small surge to shock an opponent to a powerful stream of lightning capable of ripping through solid rock. It is ideal to use in conjunction with a water jutsu.
So here's the next chapter. Hopefully you like it, and I can't stress enough: Review, review, review. I definitely take people's inputs into account. So Naruto and Sorana are now A-rank nin. Next chapter will not be another mission to take out missing-nin, instead it will be the start of the Chuunin Exams and meeting the Rookie 12. It should be pretty amusing, and it should be a very unique take on the first two tests on the Exams. That's all I have to say for now, so hope you enjoyed the read.
