Inspired by many fanfics and the original Naruto(obviously).
I don't own Naruto or any associated character and jutsu.
Not beta-ed yet, care to bring this into the court or something?
Originally this was part of chapter 7 but I felt that it's too long so I cut it into two part.
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Love and Hatred Arc Chapter Four : The Encounter
-Zabuza's Hideout –
"SHIT!" screamed Zabuza as Haku worked her best to gave him first aid, else he wouldn't survive. His backbone just got crushed and his chest was badly damaged, he was given blood increasing pills and acupuncture or he would be dead from the blood loss.
"Zabuza-san you shouldn't push it" said the so-called Kirigakure ANBU, who actually was Zabuza's subordinate, as he managed to put Zabuza's bones on his arm back to their places.
"Lose the goddamn mask Haku, it give me creeps" said Zabuza. He tried to get up but combination of the damage done by Naruto and the senbon Haku used to gave him false death state was too much even for him.
"I'm sorry Zabuza-san, it's just I'm already used to using this mask" Haku removed her mask revealing a deep black eyes and a pale face."With state you're in right now it might take three weeks for recovery but I'm sure you'll be back at full strength in two" said Haku.
"I didn't think Kakashi's genins would be that skillful, especially the girl. I thought because she didn't know water walk she's not a threat" said Zabuza remembering the girl's fearsome fist.
"Do you think you'll be okay next time?" asked Haku, her voice full of concern although Zabuza was never one to appreciate such thing.
" just incapacitate the girl first, she will be a trouble if you left her. The blond Uzumaki brat is a problem but he's inexperienced, same as the Uchiha boy. I believe you'll be able to defeat them both if you separate them first. For Kakashi I only need to improve my kirigakure no jutsu" said Zabuza. "Uzumaki from Konoha... that means that brat is the son of that woman, interesting" thought Zabuza as he had Haku healing him.
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-Tazuna's house-
Naruto woke up with his body ached, using Kurama's chakra hurt like a bitch since he had to reject the hatred or succumb to it. He didn't mind though, a trip to his mindscape made him able to train his spirit there, though he had to be careful or risk everyone near him exposed to Kurama's chakra. Kurama even gave him technique that should be able to help him when he's in tight spot
"The only problem I have is my chakra reserve, I need more training" thought Naruto.
"ahh you're finally awake" said a woman bringing cold towel.
"and you're?" asked Naruto
"Oh sorry, I'm Tsunami, I'm..." said Tsunami introducing herself but she's being cut by Naruto
" that drunkard's daughter" said Naruto eyeing her a little bit. "She's pretty, impressive considering she's that old man's daughter"Thought Naruto.
"Ahahaha sometimes he drink too much" said Tsunami embarrassed by his father's bad habit
"Where's my team?" asked Naruto, finally regaining his focus. He didn't forget to take a mental note to train his discipline later.
Tsunami called Kakashi and the rest of team 7 who immediately came, the first was Sakura who ran and hug him like there's no tomorrow.
"Naruto you are awake" Sakura said, truly concerned of his health.
"Something's different..." thought Naruto "Sakura, you cut your hair?"
"Yeah it's getting in the way when I fight" said Sakura as she remembered how Zabuza used it to throw her.
"Dobe" said Sasuke.
"Teme" said Naruto grinning.
"Yo Naruto" said kakashi beside him eye smiling. He would talk to him about using Kyuubi Chakra later, for now he need Naruto to rest.
"Yo Kakashi -sensei" replied Naruto back.
"Great job all of you. Three genin defeated an A-rank jonin like Zabuza in combat is a feat unheard of these days" said Kakashi eye smiling before his face hardened.
"But unfortunately we can't celebrate as Zabuza is still alive" said Kakashi.
It wasn't all that surprising for the boys as they already had their suspicion. For Sasuke it was because the hunter-nin's appearance was too convenient while Naruto already realized that the smell of the hunter-nin is similar because he was the one that killed his clone. Sakura and Tazuna however is another story, their jaws hit the floor and they let out a big scream.
"But sensei you already checked yourself, you said he was dead" Sakura panicked.
"Yes but you do remember the fake hunter-nin's weapon,no?" Kakashi asked them.
"It was senbon" said Naruto.
"Yes Naruto, a senbon. It's a weapon that have a very low fatality rate unless it hit critical spot" said Kakashi
"And he hit Zabuza in place that cause him to enter near-dead state" finished Sasuke. This is truly a problem, just Zabuza is enough to put them in difficult position now add the fake hunter-nin... they're fucked.
"Maybe you're thinking too much" said Tazuna giving them his piece of wisdom.
"No, when a ninja feels that there's something wrong, he must prepare for it before its too late. He's still alive" explained Kakashi making Tazuna's face even paler.
"But Naruto's technique should disable him for at least a week, in time you guys train more to deal with the fake hunter-nin" said Kakashi. Naruto and Sasuke shivered from the prospect of another fight while Sakura still got that horrified look on her face.
"I trust you guys already learned tree and water walking?" asked Kakashi rhetorically, Naruto and Sasuke nodded while Sakura shook her head.
"Hmm okay, tomorrow I'm going to train sakura in tree walking and you two in whatever technique you still lack" said Kakashi
"Sensei may I train alone?" said Naruto
"okay sure but leave some clones to guard Tazuna" said Kakashi
"why are you guys still trying?" said a little kid, he was Inari, the client's grandson who just arrived. Instantly Naruto disliked this kid.
"what the fuck is wrong with this runt" thought Naruto seeing the kid's who just appeared said that to them
"Aaahh Inari where were you?" asked Tazuna as Inari run and hugged him.
"I'm home grandpa" Inari's hug thightened for a second.
"Inari, say hello to them, these are ninjas that escorted your grandpa" Tsunami scolded at her son's lack of manner.
"It's okay. right, Inari?" said Tazuna rubbing Inari's hat covered head.
Inari's eyes bored into each of team 7's eyes. When Inari focused them to Naruto, Naruto finally realized that this kid must have lost someone. That kind of eyes were very common to him when He was chased by mobs, the eyes of people who already scarred for the rest of their life.
"Mom they're going to die. There's no way they can win against Gato" said Inari.
"Woah waoh, I don't know who the hell this Gato is but if your grandpa was sober he said this Gato is just a jerk with money, no match for Hero of Sharingan" Said Naruto while teasing Kakashi, who kept his cool. Inari quickly exclaimed angrily"There's no hero in this world!."
This time Naruto shut himself up, there's no use debating the kid. Inari angrily turned his back and going to his room but not without giving Naruto his warning "If you don't want to die you should go home." This time Naruto's blood boiled, he had just risking his life saving the runt's grandfather and he would not have the boy discredit his work.
"where're you going Inari?" asked Tazuna
"I'll go watch the ocean" said the boy, he already opened the door but he heard Naruto talked to him again, this time his voice a bit louder.
"Kid if we had gone home your grandpa would be dead and all you can do is crying over his picture. Learn to shut up and let the professional do the work" said Naruto coldly.
Inari didn't say more and ran to his room, tears flowing from his eyes.
"Naruto you're too harsh!" said Sakura.
"What? I'm just giving him a piece of my mind, it's not like he's polite either" said Naruto.
"I'm sorry for my son's rudeness" said Tsunami bowing to them, but she kept glaring at Naruto for making her son crying.
"Sorry Tsunami-san, Tazuna-san but he need to think twice before talking, despite being paid for this we're putting our life on the line you know" Naruto apologized. He was still tired because he's using chakra to use summoning technique while asleep and the kid was not helping.
Naruto excused himself and went back to sleep since he planned to search for his grandmother's grave tomorrow.
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- Next Day-
Team 7 and Tazuna leave the house early in the morning, they split up on the way, Kakashi and Sakura went training, Naruto trained alone, and Tazuna with several clones went to the bridge.
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-with Sasuke-
Sasuke couldn't get his mind of Naruto's technique. it was a very destructive and he really want to have such technique, but Naruto refuse to teach him because it was his family's. Then Naruto told him about a technique that made Kakashi's name famous, 'Chidori'. And so he ready himself to ask Kakashi to teach him that technique.
"Kakashi-sensei please teach me Chidori!" said Sasuke, unknown to him he did it in total Rock Lee style.
Kakashi was so surprised that he almost dropped the book he just read, but he regained his calm demenour and observing Sasuke, weighing his worth. Finally after a long minute Kakashi opened his mouth.
"Why should I?" Kakashi asked.
"In order to protect those who's precious to me" Said Sasuke, it was a half truth, in reality he wanted to kill Itachi, but for now he had a team to protect.
Kakashi studied him a little. He knew why the boy asked him, he was envious of Naruto's rasengan. It was risky, the boy was an Uchiha, famous for their thirst of power. Much of the clan history recorded friends and brothers killing each other for next stage of sharingan. In other hands not giving the technique open a rift between Naruto and Sasuke because of Sasuke's Superiority-Inferiority complex. Kakashi weighed the pro and cons and decided to believe in his genin.
"Okay, but promise me you wouldn't use this technique against comrades" said Kakashi
"I Promise" said Sasuke, he was so determined that Kakashi was convinced that his choice wasn't wrong.
"Good...Now tell me how far your Raiton training going?" asked Kakashi.
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-Meanwhile-
Sakura already mastered Tree climbing after her first try but her chakra level still too low to actually use this in real battle, heck even her enhanced strength is not exactly usable if she's fighting one on one; she was simply lucky before, Zabuza had thought she was weak, it wouldn't happen again. She fell several times after reaching the top,losing her concentration, only to be saved by Kakashi's clone. Without command Sakura stand up again and walked the tree, this time determined to stay as long as she could.
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-in the wood-
Naruto was training his fuinjutsu so he'll be able to use it in battle. He ran around fighting his clones trying to hit them with paralysis seal. This Naruto however is just another clone, the real one went to find his grandmother's grave to pay his respect. His father wrote in his journal that after the iwa shinobi attacked they came back to bury his mother in a place not far from their former home. Finally after looking around everywhere Naruto found it. He wasn't really happy with the current state of the grave though as it was in a very poor state. He cleaned it up a little bit before praying for her grandmother's better afterlife.
After looking for his grandma's grave he went to the town and his mood went down even further seeing the sorry state the town was in. The street was full of people asking for jobs and homeless kids. The situation got worse as he entered the market, pickpocket and thugs were everywhere and the shops practically sell nothing. That Gato guy sure crippled the country to the lowest level that building the bridge wouldn't help much, at least in Naruto's opinion.
"They need Gato and his company to disappear from this country to recover from this" thought Naruto shaking his head at what he'd saw. walking around Naruto saw two of Gato's goon collecting payment to a shop owner.
"Quick old man, pay up the tax" said one of the thug grinning.
"B-b-but I haven't sell anything this month" said the old man afraid
"Don't lie you old fart, gato know you were shipping merchandise last week and your profit this month is more than last month" said the other thug.
"If you won't pay I guess your daughter is a good substitute" said the first thug grinning maliciously.
Naruto want to rush and help him but he rationally thought that this is a good chance to spy on Gato and maybe Zabuza, so he stay there, hands trembling. After beating the old man the thugs threatened him to pay or they will take her daughter, taking a few merchandise, and went to another shop to give them same treatment. Naruto, tired of following them after an hour, decided that his new technique could help.
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-flashback-
Naruto's eyes open, he already so familiar with this world before him, it became a home for his friend, Kurama. He managed to restructure the place, no longer it was a sewer, now it is a forest with animals for Kurama to hunt and a fox den which act as the centre.
"Naruto, I see you have trouble in controlling my chakra" said Kurama, in his mouth there's a giant rabbit.
"Yeah it's so hard to filter the hatred" said Naruto as he remembered the feeling of Kurama's accumulation of humanity's hatred.
"There's a technique that should be able to lessen the damage to your body but first you have to sign this" said Kurama producing a rather big scroll out of nowhere on his palm..
"what's that? A deal with the devil?" said Naruto half-joking
"Haha very funny, no this is summoning contract for the fox clan" said Kurama
"Well its nice and all but how is this supposed to help me control your chakra Kurama?" asked Naruto a little puzzled.
"The fox clan is a family of foxes whose ancestor had been exposed to my chakra and growing extra tails, none of them reach nine like me though. they had sage mode that combine my residual chakra and natural energy,a feat no other being tried before apart from Rikudo-jiji. He used to calm us bijuu with his senjutsu chakra. I thought if you learn this you will be able to control my chakra, if not then the sage mode will still give you a big boost of power, a win-win situation " explained Kurama
"I see...Okay I sign this" said Naruto biting his thumb and write his name in blood.
"Now here's the handseals for the summoning technique, remember you had to use your blood to summon them, Boar-dog-bird-monkey-ram"
"Ok, I'll try it now Kurama...Kuchiyose no Jutsu!" said Naruto, huge smoke enveloped the area. Kurama with his tail dispersed the smoke revealing a huge dark red fox rivalling the size of Kurama with eight tails, it had a yellow slitted eyes and black marks surrounding them, mark of a sage. He was wearing a white robe with golden trim with kanji on its back reading "true fox sage"
"WHO DARE SUMMON ME!?" roared the fox.
"Yo little Shippo, I see you've grown up since the last time I saw you eh?" said Kurama grinning.
"You're... Kurama-sama? Where have you been?" asked the fox now identified as Shippo
"Yes I've been sealed inside human after Madara used me to fight Hashirama"said Kurama with hardened face, obviously he had hard time swallowing his pride.
"So where are we now Kurama-sama, why you summoned me now after such a long time?" asked shippo.
"We're inside my host body, specifically the cage part and for your information I didn't summon you, he did" said Kurama pointing towards Naruto
"Human..." Shippo spoke like Naruto was disease.
"Shippo! Show respect! He's not the same as the others" said Kurama
"I'm sorry Naruto-san, we the fox clan used to be hunted by human. It was Kurama-sama that decide to protect us from your savage and destructive race" said Shippo bowing his head towards Naruto.
Naruto bowed back " I'm sorry for what humanity had done to your family, this is not what Rikudo Sennin had pictured in his mind when he split his chakra to the people" said Naruto. He was no stranger for such dark side of humans, they always hate and fear things they couldn't comprehend.
The giant fox lower his head so his and Naruto's eyes on the same level, his yellow eyes pierce through Naruto's soul. It went for several second before he blinked his eyes and his expression softened.
"Naruto-san, I deem you worthy of being our summoner. I suggest when you have time you go to our den to get to know our clan" said Shippo
"Will do Shippo-san but not today since I'm actually unconscious at the moment" said Naruto
"Why?" asked Shippo curiously, it's uncommon for someone or something with bijuu chakra to get sick.
"I couldn't control Kurama's chakra because his chakra contained malicious hatred" said Naruto
"Hatred? Hmm...perhaps our sage mode could be the answer. Most of our clan is a sage because a fox who haven't learned sage mode usually get overwhelmed by the chakra Kurama-sama bestowed upon us" said Shippo thoughtfully.
"That's why I want you to teach him fox sage mode" said Kurama
"Fine. but be warned Naruto-san, Sage mode is a very dangerous art. You must be patient" said Shippo
"Okay" said Naruto using his nice guy pose, making Kurama facepalmed himself while Shippo only looking curiously at Kurama's reaction.
"Naruto you got to stop imitating that hideous beast" thought Kurama thinking about a certain jonin who love to wear a green spandex.
"Well I think your chakra is not big enough to sustain the summoning technique, bye Naruto-san" said Shippo,going back to his realm.
"Now what?" asked Naruto.
"try summon other fox, get to know them and their speciality" said Kurama before going to sleep
"sounds good enough, Kuchiyose no Jutsu" said Naruto, summoning another fox.
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-Flashback ends-
Performing the correct handeals he put his hand on the ground and instantly a black fox appeared in front of him, his name is Kuro.
"Yo naruto nii-san anything you need?" said Kuro cheerfully, he always pestered the elder to let someone become their summoner and now they got one he couldn't hide his excitement.
"Yeah Kuro I need you to tail those two, find their base and gather intel as much as you can" said Naruto
"Yeah I take it as long as I get some meat" said Kuro as his tail and feet laced in chakra, prepared to use the foxes superior shunshin.
"yeah I'll give you the best meat in konoha" said Naruto ruffling his head.
Hearing this the fox's ear went up and quickly He dashed away. Naruto smiled and shook his head. Kuro and Shiro was the smallest foxes in the realm, not counting foxes who couldn't control their power yet, and they consider Naruto their older brother.
Naruto wandered around the market some more, seeing more and more of things that one only saw in Konoha's poorest district. A man almost pickpocket him but he back off after Naruto gave him a glare, a shop owner pestering him to buy some of his good, which Naruto couldn't really refused because the way he begged was really sad. The saddest moment however is the part when a little girl asked him sweets so innocently, which made him go back to the shop and buy her every single sweet available there. He stopped walking around when He noticed that his clones already dispelled themselves after exhausting their chakra. Seeing it's getting late went back to Tazuna's home for a dinner.
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-Tazuna's house-
Sakura and Sasuke comeback with bruises all over their body, plus burn marks for Sasuke all over his left palm, courtesy of a certain lazy jonin's teaching. Inari seeing team 7 eat happily and even laughing only stared at his food. Sakura noticed Inari silently watching a torn picture asked about this, earning herself a gloomy atmosphere.
"He was my husband" Said Tsunami.
"He was known as The hero of the wave" said Tazuna.
Inari stopped eating and went away saying that he wasn't hungry. A worried Tsunami went after him but not before glaring at Tazuna, angry at her father's carelessness.
"Father I told you to don't talk about him in front of Inari!" Tsunami scold Tazuna, leaving the dining room.
"Man that is one hell of family drama" thought Naruto. Truth to be told, he tried sympathizing with Inari but the kid made it hard, his mindset itself spit at Naruto's pride, his hardwork.
The rest of the night was filled by Tazuna telling them the tales of the hero, how he gave courage to the poor boy, how he motivated the rest of the villagers with his own bravery, and how he fell by the hands of Gato's thugs. Tazuna's tale made Naruto restless at night thinking how to change Inari's mindset.
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-The next day-
After Sakura mastered the tree walking exercise Naruto, Sasuke and Sakura trained together in using the surrounding area to their advantage. Naruto noticed that somebody was following them, his chakra was too small to be a ninja and even if it was a killer he didn't sense any metal object nearby. Apparently Inari tailed them here and witnessing their training.
Naruto ,thinking that he could motivate Inari by showing him his team's techniques, motioned to Sasuke and Sakura to double their pace. the ninjas now seen as a blur in front of Inari. It was true that Inari was awed at the very sight before him but the jackass part said that it was all for naught. Sadly Inari, too afraid to hope, agreed to this and leaving himself even more demotivated than before.
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-Tazuna's house-
Team 7 came back at night bruised all over their body. Mostly the boys since Sakura had shown herself to be a very adept taijutsu fighter and the boys decided that their ninjutsu would be too much for the sorry state they were in was not appealing to Inari who begin yapping about their training being useless.
"You can't beat gato's man even if you're trying! No matter how hard you try and say those nice words weak people will always lose against strong people!" yelled Inari.
Now Naruto was insulted , this boy in front of him said that after what they showed him. Again the boy insulted his pride, his hardwork.
"I agree with you kid. Weak people always lose against strong people. That's why Gato will always lose against us. It would be different story though if you're the one fighting him, crybaby" Naruto mocked Inari who cried river.
"Naruto you went too far" hissed Sakura.
"Shut up! It pisses me off when I watch you who don't know anything about this country said things like that! What would you know about pain anyway! I bet you live sheltered life in that ninja village of yours! You don't know any real pain!" Inari just said the wrongest thing to Naruto who already blitz himself to Inari and choking him.
"NARUTO!" yelled Sakura and Kakashi while Tazuna and Tsunami rushed to help Inari but they were petrified by Naruto's Killing intent. Sakura who didn't know anything about his past life thought he was going overboard.
"I don't know any real pain kid? Really? At least you have a mother and a grandfather who love you and have time for every little whiny shit you said, a house that keep your body from harm, and warm food every day! At the age of four I have none of that! I have no parent and I have no relative. What I have is an absent godfather who always away from the village, a grandfather figure struggling between his place as a leader and as my parents' substitution, and living on the street eating rotten food until The Hokage come and pick me up. Don't you dare say I don't know true pain kid because I know more than you!" said Naruto who let go of Inari's neck and stormed out of the front door.
Inari only cry more and ran out, leaving the room silent except for Tsunami's occasional sob.
"Sensei, was all of that true?" asked Sakura, she never thought Naruto's past could be that dark.
"Yes Sakura that was all true, he was kicked out of orphanage because of something out of his control. He have to live in the street for a month and beaten at least one time a year by mobs" said Kakashi, earning himself everyone's horrified expression. He left to go outside, he need to talk to Inari or else he might have to bury a body tomorrow.
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-In the wood-
Naruto was furious beyond anything. "That boy dare saying I don't know pain!" Naruto growled as he vent his anger by 'training.' The training really was just him destroying his surroundings in any way possible such as Cutting trees with wind release, burning them with fire release, and other things like beating shadow clones. He keep doing these until his body gave out and he passed out from exhaustion.
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-In the morning-
(Haku POV)
A basket, clear. Civilian clothes, clear. Check the door trap, clear.
Zabuza-sama is seriously injured after the attacking the bridge builder's protectors, the ninjas from Konoha. I need more herbs. He might not admit it but I know he is in serious pain. It's not that hard to see and feel the slight trembling of his hands. The boys from before were very dangerous, one could put you in genjutsu the moment you see him, the other have that strange technique capable of putting Zabuza-sama in this state. A one hit kill technique.
My jaw hit the floor when the spot that yesterday I use to find the herb looked like it suffer from a hurricane. Trees toppled everywhere and sometime there's chunk of burnt tree. I'm not sure which one is more surprising, the destruction or the yellow-haired boy in middle of it, the same boy who gave Zabuza-sama so much pain.
"Kill him" a rational part of me said, and I'm obeying. I walked towards him quietly, quiet enough that even a seasoned ANBU won't sensed me, guaranteed by my experience in hunting my hunters
I checked the surrounding, looks like he's really is alone. It will be troublesome if I have to fight this boy and his friend. As I crouched near him I ready my only weapon, my hand, to choke him.
"I'm sorry, Haku"Instantly I'm frozed by that memory and let out a small gasp, a big mistake. The boy already opened his blue eyes and gripped my hand tightly.
And I ready myself for a fight
ToBeContinue...
Author's note
And my beta's gone like a wind... maybe he's busy...
No new, made-up technique.
Kuchiyose, yes Naruto is a fox summoner, not that I mind if he have toad though. But I'd rather he have foxes than toads, I don't like the toad's eyes or that + when it was combined with the kyuubi mode. I already have something in mind about his sage mode and no, no tails.
