Child of the Touketsu Jurin
By: Death's Spear
All right I'll admit that I have been focusing on Naruto for a while so this chapter will be the second to last one with just Naruto and the Wolx. The dream sequence that Naruto had was his sub-conscious reaction to the memories of Kyuubi. The part with the group of people with the Leaf headbands was more of like a warning of what might come, (Please don't say that things like this can't happen because I used to have a lot of dreams about the future and a lot of what I dreamt about did happen.) NOTE: this chapter will be faster at parts so I can get to some parts that will contain advanced training and the befriending of the Wolx(s). Chapter nine will have Kakashi and the rest in it so don't worry.
Now onwards to chapter 8; (Sorry for not updating like I said, but my internet connection is a piece of shit and decided to be a piece of shit and wouldn't let me on the net for a couple of days, this and work)
I DO NOT OWN NARUTO, if I did why would I be writing fanfiction about it?
Naruto felt a burning sensation as he clutched his arms closer to his stomach, his legs felt like there were knives sticking out of them, his whole body felt like it was on fire and there wasn't anything he could do to put it out. The boney hands of the skeletons that were grabbing him and screaming in pain all aimed at him; stopped as Naruto let out a scream of pain and terror. Amazingly soon after the scream Naruto let out stopped the skeletons from continuing their disturbing game of screaming and grabbing the terrified child; and fell completely silent.
Naruto felt like something was different as the pain subsided and burning sensation was replaced with a cooler sensation. He opened his eyes and looked at his arms and saw something that looked like ice covering his skin. He took a closer look at his arms and then looked at his hands and legs. On his hands he found small razor sharp spikes sticking out his knuckles and a small line of razor sharp spines protruding from the out side of his now clenched fists. His legs now had longer spines of ice like material sticking out from his knees and a couple from the back of his feet.
He turned his attention towards the skeletons only to find every one of them were now frozen and were looking at him in a frozen dead horror like way. It sickened him to see the face of the dead look at him like that. He took his newly armored fist and punched one of the skeletons faces only to have his hand go through it. He punched again and again only to find that every time his fist went through the skeletons body.
He finally got tired of needless punching and stopped to look at the woods; before the woods were frozen but now the ground around him had spikes of ice and an even colder looking appearance than it once had. He turned and saw the monster looking at him with a stunned appearance and started to back away from Naruto.
Naruto looked at the beast and watched the look of shock that quickly turned into fear as it turned and ran away from Naruto. Naruto got up and followed the beast and saw it struggling as it tried to climb over some big roots that protruded from the earth; and slip and crack it's head off a rock that was covered in snow. Naruto went over to the beast and took joy in seeing the monster hang on to its slowly fading existence ; but his joy was to be cut short when he say that there were blotches of pure white in his view.
Little did Naruto now; he was slowly waking up from his knocked out condition. When he actually woke up he noticed that the monster had dried blood running down its maw and its legs and chest area. He was about to get up and kill the stupid beast when he took sight of his hands legs and knees. They all had small spikes coming from them. He too a look around the area and noticed that every thing within a seven foot radius was frozen. The ground, the rocks, the grass and even the air felt like it was made of ice.
He finally got up and walked over to the beast and raised his now spiked hand and started to bring it down on the animal when he heard a voice call out to him.
"STOP! What do you think you are doing?" the voice came from nowhere and every where at the same time. He knew this was not Kyuubi playing a trick on him; this was some one or something even greater then her, or himself. He slowly brought his hand down to his side and looked at the beast, he kept an ear out for the thing that made him stop from slaying the beast; alas no such luck.
He continued to look at the creature until his stomach decided it wanted to seek attention with a rumble. Naruto got up and looked around him; there were no acorns, no berries, all there was the river. He thought back to the memories for a second only enough to find out more on the fishing skills. Once he found them from his mind, he picked up stick and took to sharpening the tip. He looked for a rock but couldn't find a sharp one; then he remembered his hands them selves now had small sharp ice like things on them and used those to make the stick sharp.
Finishing his skewering stick; he walked over to the rivers edge and waited for a fish to swim by. Normally he would have gone right into the water but the air was cold and he did not want to get sick. After waiting for about fifteen minutes he saw some trout swim close to him. He readied his skewer and aimed at the closest fish and threw it into the trout's path to be rewarded with a nice bloody catch. He took the skewer and pulled it from the water and gutted the fish like he saw earlier.
He went back to the place where he started to make a fire earlier before passing out and started the blaze anew. He put the fish on a smaller stick and let it rest on the side of the fire just enough to cook it. He sat back and thought about the voice that had stopped him from killing the monster that lay beside him and tried to figure out why?
The wolx started to come around and make whimpering noises that got Naruto's attention. Naruto turned around and saw the beast struggle to get up but did eventually make it up on to its hind legs and started to lick its self clean of the dried blood. The wolx smelt the smell of roasting fish and stared at Naruto with hunger laced in its eyes. He got up and started growling while limping towards him thinking that he could scare him away from the now cooked fish. He showed his maw and bared his teeth at Naruto only to have a stone hurl at him and hit his shoulder left blade.
The wolx let out a hurt yelp as the stone pegged his already hurt body. He immediately got his bearings back and attacked again only this time to be met with a hot piece of fish slammed into his face. The wolx didn't yelp or anything, he just tore into the piece of fish before something else could take it from him.
Naruto saw that maybe he could get the wolx to stop trying to kill him if he feed it something. 'Maybe if I feed him enough fish I can get it to not only to stop attacking me but maybe become my pet later on.' His thoughts were cancelled out as he heard the voice from before call out to him; 'Do not try to make him your pet but make him a friend. Pets maybe thought as loyal but can still turn against the hand that feeds them. Win his trust and then friendship, then you might have an easier life.'
Naruto again looked around for the voice and was about to ask Kyuubi about the voice when he noticed that the beast was still enjoying its meal like nothing happened. That was the final thing that made Naruto freak out; he had heard that voice not once but twice now and this time the dumb beast over there eating the fish that had been thrown at him acted like he didn't hear it. Now he knew it was time he had to talk to Kyuubi about the voice.
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Kyuubi's domain
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Kyuubi had been sleeping for entire time Naruto had awoken since the atrocious nightmare slash vision; trying to find signs for any advanced damage done to his persona would have to wait until it revered its ugly head. Now though, she felt like someone was trying to ask her a question so she woke up for a bit just in time to hear Naruto trying to get her attention.
"Hey fox! Wake up I need to ask you a question." The voice of Naruto broke through the silence of her drowsy state.
She turned her head and looked around and saw Naruto standing there, well mentally; physically he was still outside making sure that the beast would attack again. She opened her mouth and asked what is was that he wanted.
"Kyuubi did you hear a voice just a little while ago?" The first thing that came to mind was 'Yeah yours baka'; but then decided to answer differently.
"No I didn't; the only voice I have heard all day is yours. Why?"
"Well not once but twice I have heard this voice that seems to come from every where but nowhere at the same time. The first time I was going to kill the monster but the voice came out of nowhere and told to stop. Then the second time was after I threw a slab of fish at it to make it stop trying to kill me. I was going to try to get it to be my pet or something like that when the voice told me to earn its trust and friendship instead of making it my pet; it said something about loyalty and stuff like that; but when it was gone I looked at the monster and it acted like it didn't even hear it. What's going on? Naruto replied.
"Brat I have no idea what you are talking about but it could be from something that happened when you were viewing my memories; don't ask me how because I don't know jack about spirits and such. What I am curious about is those spikes on your arms and legs? They kind of look like ice." Kyuubi stated, as Naruto looked at his arms and legs and then poked one of them before replying,
"They're cold like ice and there sharp too." Kyuubi looked a little closer before mumbling something to her self.
Naruto being ever vigilante at the moment heard this and asked what she had said and only got more mumbling in response. Getting at little fed up at her involuntary mumblings he asked a little louder than normal, "Tell me what you said I want to know."
Kyuubi looked at him and sighed before saying what she had mumbled out twice before. "What I said was it looks like your body is responding to the fact that you are a descendant of Shiva faster than it should. You will need to be more careful in the future not to accidentally poke out your own eye or other body parts. We will find a way back to your camp and then you will start your hunting and skinning skills so you can be prepared for the winter months up ahead of you. Then you will have to learn how to use and control your chakra so you can deal with this and other changes.
Now before you ask how many animal pelts you'll need for your clothes you won't need much because you have me living in your stomach and that you have an affinity to the cold because of your blood lines; but just because you have my heat and your blood lines does not mean you can live with out proper clothes, you can still die due to the cold. After you get those down you will need a bow to help with your hunting skills, and for that you can visit my memories to learn how make one; arrows too. Now you will want to take a stick and light it on fire so you can see in the dark and find your camp. From this location you need to go north-east for about a mile or so; no hurry up you need all the time you can get for training and preparing for winter." And she left him with that as he left and did as he was told.
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Back to the real world
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Naruto had heeded Kyuubi's information and lit a stick for light and after dowsing the small fire out gathered his skewering stick and left the wolx and his nightmares behind…hopefully.
When Naruto had found his camp it was almost the middle of the night and he was tired from today's activities but knew he could not sleep in he had to train and hunt. That night he slept in the leaves and drifted into a dreamless state.
When he awoke he remembered Kyuubi's words and sought out some fish before hunting for animals. After his successful fishing yesterday he was disappointed to catch small fish but still he ate them. After his breakfast, he grabbed his skewer and went out to find some animals to hunt. Remembering what he needed from his lessons, he crept up on a pretty fat hare; where then he threw his skewer and caught it's leg and left it unable to run, so Naruto used his new appendages to kill it and listened to Kyuubi's directions on how to cut it up and took the fur and some other things such as small bones for later.
After a couple of days of gathering pelts and other items, Kyuubi decided to tell Naruto how control his chakra the way she seen humans do it on numerous occasions. Tree climbing was hard at first but got easier as he did it more and more. It was also one the only things he could do as he waited for the skins of his kills to dry enough to be turned into clothing. When he had asked Kyuubi on what he should make first, she told him to make a cloak so he could cover him self in the cold and rain.
It had been about a month and a half since Naruto was chased out of the village and was doing fine in hunting and fishing, as well as chakra control and making animal skin cloths. Today he was again commanded by Kyuubi to find a good flexible and strong stick and bring it back to begin preparing to make his bow. She also told him to gather smaller sticks and some sharp rocks for arrows. It had taken him about three hours to find enough sticks and rocks and went back to his camp to start making his new weapons.
Making a bow is hard. Naruto found out that he had to have certain parts of animal sinew and put his bow over a thing over boiling water which Naruto had found about two weeks ago and had been using it for water storage. But if the mean time he started to make his own jutsus so he could better defend him self. He remembered from a while back when he had ran from the villagers once that he was outside of the academy and found out how to do hand seals; he remembered almost everything of what the instructor had told his class and inadvertently Naruto as well.
Since Kyuubi had said to him once that he had the ability to no only control ice but make it as well he was going to start out with ice first. He had gotten an idea from watching the fog make people shiver once and thought that if normal fog could do that than what could a fog cloud do if it was nearly ice cold? He tried it out once and had some luck with it; it wasn't a fog cloud but a sheet of ice that had sprouted from the ground. A couple more tries and a couple more sheets of ice and Naruto had finally gotten something fog like.
After Naruto had finally gotten his first jutsu down and could use it properly, Kyuubi told him to walk from the center of his camp site travel ¾ of a mile in each direction and use it once at each location; once in the northern part, once in the southern and again in the western and eastern directions. Every time he used that jutsu now called the Kyoumu no Jutsu, made a thick fog that reached five feet high and spread out for almost ten yards in the direction he faced in when using it. He did this at each location once a day for the first four days to make the air cold enough so the fog didn't dissipate much. He was very happy with the success of the technique as it froze smaller animals very quickly.
After having no shelter for about two months Naruto decided to make a small hut instead of a tepee of which the Natives in his lessons used as the snow that now had been falling for a couple of days would make it collapse; and he could put dried meat and water in it for storage. It was bigger than he had planned but it still did its job at night when he was sleeping.
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Time skip 2 months
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Naruto had been living here, the forest; for about 4 months now and was very relaxed. Once or twice did he have contact with the beast that had attacked him and found out that there were more of them than he thought. At first he thought that maybe that there were maybe four of five of them at the most but now that he had seen them he now knew that he was wrong. Like the nightmare that had fully awoken or most of his powers, he saw at least fourteen of the monsters. He always stayed out of their way and never approached them.
Today was different however; life decided to throw in some excitement for once and had moved the pieces on its playing board and made two very curious pups wander a little to far from their care takers and closer towards Naruto. He watched them as they picked up his sent and started to move closer to him to find out what he was. Naruto got up and moved back in hopes of losing the pups before the main pack thought of him as a threat; but alas he was bested as the pups came over to his new hiding spot and started to play with his cloak.
The pups were having a good time playing with Naruto's cloak as he tried to get away from them, growling at each other and then at Naruto as if asking him to play with them. When he wouldn't they began to make noise. Noise that could have lead to Naruto's demise; for one of the beasts caught a glimpse of him near the pups and immediately charged at him; the others that were in distance saw this and followed the first one towards the pups and Naruto.
Snarling and spitting at him the beasts came flying at him while he was trying to get the pups away from him; Naruto turned and ducked in time as one of the pup's defenders came extremely close to his throat and went sailing behind him as he turned and took to the trees for a final escape route. The beasts would not get him today and Naruto went sailing threw the low lying trees towards his hut. The wolx were not as mad as Naruto was about losing his food that he was trying to hunt down they had protected the pups and were glad that Naruto hadn't put up a fight. The only one that was mad was the one with a scar running down the corner of his maw; he wanted to kill that long lost prey and he also wanted revenge for his mouth.
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Time skip 1 month
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Naruto was living like he had been for a while now hunt for food, making arrows for his now fully complete bow and practiced aiming and hunting with it every day, used his Kyoumu no Jutsu twice a week now and then started to make his new cloths and jutsus. Once during his chakra control training he had slipped off the icy surface of the tree and cut his shoulder when he landed on his back, and thought about making some wooden armor much like the Natives did only so they could be worn under his cloak. He had found some strong wood and brought it back to his hut and had cut it utilizing some sharp pieces of ice that he could now make almost on a whim. He had to make a hatchet or a tomahawk to do some of the more meaningless work but that could wait for a while.
That night the forest was struck with a devastating snow storm, trees cracked and fell, and the snow drifts that were once a couple of feet high were now four or more feet in height. When Naruto woke up he was glad that hunting had been so plentiful the last month or so because now he couldn't get out of his hut; he would have to wait for a couple of days until he could move the snow away from the huts door.
While he was waiting for the snow to melt just enough for him to get through and find some more wood, he started to make some Zai tsumei, for his hands and some shoulder plates for protection; if not from the wolx than from the villagers that might try to come through the woods and try to kill him on the way.
The fourth day the snow was just warm enough to move around and Naruto wormed his way out of his hut and dug the rest of his hut out before setting out to find some wood and some frozen animals that might have been unlucky enough to find shelter. He came back and put the wood that he had found in his hut along with two frozen birds and one frozen rabbit; he put them away to thaw as he worked on making a hatchet to make wood gathering easier for him.
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Time skip 1 month
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It was now early April and the snow had stopped falling and the only part of the forest that had melted was the half mile or so space of which Naruto's hut was and the outer layer outside of the now semi permanent Kyoumu . He had squirrels running around like crazy and some weird plants popping up from the ground that Kyuubi had classified as baby peas. Naruto was out enjoying the fist good hunt in a while and had killed three rather large hares and one bird, all in all a good hunting trip. However on the way back from his hunting trip he noticed that there were other foot prints in the snow and they were not his. He looked around and saw more foot prints in the snow and noticed that some of them were not the same as the others more than one person was running around in his new home land and he was pissed. He followed them even further all the while carrying the killed animals with him, as he trailed the intruders.
He traveled for another forty-five minutes before hearing some people talking to each other. He snuck up on them and saw not two but four people in his sanctuary and saw that one of the people had oddly colored hair, it was pink! Naruto also saw that the other people had the same symbol as the pink haired man…a leaf symbol on their head bands or mask. The pink haired man also looked like he was injured and that there had been a struggle somewhere as he was blood coming from his mouth and he was dirty. The other group though talked in hushed voices and did not look like they were injured.
One started to do some thing with is hands and made a small flame that burnt the small scroll that the pink haired man had been holding. The other masked people looked at the man before saying something in which the pink haired man had only nodded in response. The group started to move back towards the way they had come and the pink haired man spotted Naruto's cloak in which he quickly pulled a kunai out and hurled it at him. This sudden movement had also put the masked people on his trail as they quickly leaped towards Naruto who had moved out of the way at the last moment.
Naruto dropped his kills and ran away from the group as they tried to follow him through the snow and ice that he was accustomed with so much, and tried to bring him down.
The pink haired man only helped them because maybe the village would forgive him for stealing his own families scroll and lie to cover it up by saying that cloaked figure had stolen it. Alas he tripped and knocked him self out as he stepped on a slippery rock and hit his head of a tree. The others were still after Naruto though and were not slowing down anymore than they had to.
Naruto turned a round a tree and jumped up into it and notched an arrow to his bow and aimed it at one the masked figures heads and fired at him. The arrow not needing much effort in flying flew silently towards the masked man and missed the head of its target but dug into his shoulder. The man let out an agonizing scream and fell to the ground while clutching his right shoulder. The scream not only warned the others of Naruto's position but also warned the wolx that there was prey on the move and one was wounded.
Naruto had to get out of the tree and find another place to hide and snipe them from as they turned on him and charged. He got on to the other side of the tree and jumped to an even higher branch and jumped to another tree before quickly dropping down and letting the other two masked people go past him as he notched another arrow to his bow and fired at one of their heads only succeeding in hitting one's leg and making him fall and bash his head off a rock effectively killing him.
The last one noticed that she was alone and quickly pulled out one of her best jutsus on Naruto making multiple small fireballs come out of her mouth and fly towards him. The fire balls were about half way there when Naruto called out his own jutsu but with a gravely kind of edge to it due to the fact that he hasn't spoken out loud for months now being alone just communicating with Kyuubi sometimes but that was in his mind not physical.
The fireballs met something that made them dissipate, but the steam that made by the foiled attack left the masked women looking for her target when in truth Naruto never moved from his spot and then called out again but this time audible "Hyoton Shimobashria no Jutsu" the masked women saw a flurry of ice needles speeding towards her and dodged most of them but still was struck by a few. She was losing and she knew that she had to get back to Konoha fast with her team dead and her mission complete she turned tail and ran from Naruto's sight back to civilization.
This left Naruto with three other people, one dead, one hurt, and one that was a freak of nature. He made his way back to the other people that were alive and saw that the first one that he shot had gotten up and limped towards the village all the while leaving a blood trail flowing after him. The one that had died was being feasted upon the other carnivores and scavengers in the forest, and the freak man as Naruto called him in his mind, was nowhere to be found.
Naruto decided to go and find his kills that he had dropped earlier only to come across those beasts again eating his kills. At first he was pissed off but then he saw the pups playing with their food and eating at a quick pace made him chuckle to him self. It was a low and quite chuckle but the beasts still heard him and started to growl at him and moving very threatening. Naruto decided to leave them to there meal and wait until they were done to retrieve his skewer. He turned around only to be met by two opposing forces; one was the scared beast that had tried to kill him twice already and the one was the freak man.
The freak man stride towards Naruto with out taking notice of the wolx to his left and the others behind Naruto that were feasting upon the killed prey that Naruto had killed earlier. He walked out towards Naruto and started to thank him for getting rid of the people he called 'Anbu hunter nins'.
"I must thank you for helping me out back there with those hunter nins, all though my scroll was destroyed I can still get another one from my family. But to do that I will need something from you… you see I am now a missing nin, but I can easily tell the village it was you who stole my families scroll and I will be let back in the village to steal another copy of the scroll; but to do that you I am afraid must DIE!" and with that said the freak man sped towards Naruto with a kunai out and tried to cut his throat.
"Once I kill you I will take that cloak for my own and use it for warmth when I travel through this wasteland later. It is very cold as you know and I don't want to catch my death out here." Again the man tried to kill him again but this time he threw the kunai at Naruto's head which was dodged when Naruto accidentally fell backwards and landed on his butt. The kunai kept going and struck something that not only made Naruto mad but the wolx as well.
The kunai had struck one of the pups in the hind quarters with a yelp it fell to the ground whimpering. The wolx that had been going after Naruto decided to go after the one that had hurt its pup and tore into action. He leaped on the mans back as he was about to stab Naruto with another kunai that he had pulled out after hurting the pup. The man screamed in pain as more wolx came around the man wanting vengeance for the fallen pup.
Naurto got back up on his feet and saw that the beasts were not trying to kill him…yet, but trying to kill them freak man that had hurt the pup. Now Naruto still held anger towards the beast that had attacked him before, but new that he could not hate a pup for the adult's actions. He walked over to the pup and remembered what he had learned from Kyuubi about healing wounds on animals like baby rabbits and deer when he came across them on his hunts. Kyuubi had told him if you kill the young then there would not be anymore older animals to hunt later.
Naruto pulled the kunai from the pup's legs and put some of his chakra in to the wound as he searched for some herbs that he had found close to the outer layer one day, and put some healing cream on a leaf and put it on the wound. Now that he had taken care of the pup he went back to the man that had not only hurt the pup but tried to kill him as well. To his good fortune the man was still alive…for now.
Naruto went over to the mob of beasts and took his bow and aimed and arrow at the man; the shot had to be perfect or he would shoot one of the beasts and that would not be good. He waited as the man got up and started making hand seals and started to call out his jutsu. That was his chance and he took the shot. The arrow flew towards the man who had only been worrying about the wolx and not Naruto; saw something flying towards him and at the last second he dodged a head shot. The arrow flew and hit his upper left arm instead; the blood erupted from the man's arm and gave the wolx a show.
Naruto quickly lost no time in starting his own jutsu as he saw his enemy resting against a tree and quickly ran towards the man and called out his technique "Hyoton: Koori Kisoku no Jutsu!" that jutsu was the last thing the freak man saw before he was frozen by a cloud of moist ice that spewed from Naruto's mouth. It froze him solid within seconds.
The wolx looked at Naruto with fear and bewilderment, as they saw the man freeze. They could tell that he was frozen by the way he smelt; they looked over at the pup who was beginning to stir and whine some more. Then they looked over at Naruto as he walked towards the pup. They growled at him as he bent down and touched the pup's wound and then do something they couldn't follow then grab the stick that was next too their meal and look at them once more before running off in to the distance. The anger between the scared one and Naruto slowly diminished after that act of kindness, next time he met him he would not attack him as an act of kindness; though it would be a while before he saw the boy again.
End Chapter 8
Sincerely,
Death's Spear
NOTES:
The next chapter will have longer time skips as Naruto has only been in the forest for 6 months as of now.
It has taken me a while to update any of my stories yes I know, I don't type fast and I like to read for other inspiration for this and other stories I have stored away.
This is the last update for this story for a while like it states on my profile page I am going away for Turkey day and won't be back for a while.
The last chapter was confusing I know but I will try to explain things as I go along and I hope that I do not make one as confusing as that one again. Sorry to you the viewers for the confusion. Hope you all have a good Turkey day, See Ya!
