rise and rebirth of the hidden Whirlpool

by Seoras

naruto at a young age learns about his mother's clan and village before it was destroyed, he swears to his mother that the Uzumaki and hidden whirlpool will ascend to greatness on the way he will face political sabotage, civil war and love in his quest to restore his clan and village nothing will stop him rated m just in case there are original characters

10. Chapter 10

REINFORCEMENTS

The trek back to the rebel camp took longer than getting there to help for Naruto and his squad on the way two of the wounded went into a critical state which made the group of fatigued warriors hurry as much as they could getting to the entrance of the camp Naruto bellowed out in his battle field voice "GET ME SOME GOD DAM MEDICS" alerting the whole camp to their presence the clan leaders who had shinobi in that patrol came back to see Naruto and his 8 hunters looking extremely tired who wouldn't be traveling and fighting non-stop nearly for 3 days straight with little rest between they were guarding the 5 or so loyalists that survived but captured, from the original squad of 30, 10 healthy but tired shinobi carrying on makeshift stretchers 8 mildly wounded and 2 critically wounded fighters and in some sealing scrolls which Naruto provided 10 sealed bodies of bloodline fighters.

The medics having arrived relived the tired shinobi of their comrades and went about stabilizing and treating them of their injuries, looking at the Group he couldn't help but think back to the arduous trip back to camp and getting to know Mei a little better. 'Mei Uzumaki you are a very interesting woman'

Flashback begin

Walking behind the group with Mei while chojuro, phantom, ghost and banshee all spread out behind looking out for an attack, he noted that it had started to snow once again almost as if the sky was weeping for those lost in the skirmish he sighed 'what a waste of human life sacrificed in senseless bloodshed' Coming out of his musing he saw Mei was looking at him wondering why he voiced those thoughts

Mei blushing at being caught staring said "Well you sighed and looked at the sky and spaced out slightly I was wondering what you were thinking." She finished off curiously.

Smiling sadly "I was thinking of the senseless bloodshed and venting in my head" then looking away to hide his tears sniffled and wiped his face this didn't go unnoticed by Mei who saw her leader distressed walked over and engulfed him in a hug "it also makes me sad that we lost to Uzumaki in the fighting it is almost like losing my mother all over again…"choking back tears continued on "…I fear that my skills as a leader will be pushed to its limits and for every man, women and child lost I will cry for them, tell me does that make me weak that I weep for the lost"

Surprised at the question at the end pulled him further into her embrace said "of course not that just makes you a caring leader" she said tenderly

"Thank you may…Mei" he said quietly, Mei letting go of Naruto, they both lapsed into a calm quietness. Breaking the silence Naruto asked "so Mei tell me about yourself…"

Smiling and nodding "well as you know my name is Mei Uzumaki, my likes are my family, training, our lava style bloodline. My dislikes are fighting, needless bloodshed and conflict, my hobbies are learning the basics of our clan fuinjutsu, spending time with family, learning new lava jutsu… and my dreams for the future bringing world peace and having a family of my own, you know loving husband and a girl and boy." Mei said wistfully she then looked at Naruto hinting for him to go

"My name is Naruto Uzumaki to some, the village of the leaf the Jinchuuriki of the Kyuubi and to my family Tou-san/chan or Uzukage-Tou-sama, my likes my six adopted children and my Uzumaki family, Uzumaki fuinjutsu, lava style and Kenjutsu style, my dislikes are the same as yours and Rapists, kidnappers, slavers and people who judge before they know someone. My hobbies are protecting and spending time with my family, training in clan techniques and increasing my fuinjutsu knowledge and my dreams for the future is to bring peace and prosperity to the nations and find a caring, loving and strong woman to marry and have a family with her" he said. Mei looked at Naruto and thought 'maybe I could be that woman' what she didn't realise was she voiced that thought, this got a blush and flashed a smile at her and said "maybe Mei".

Hearing him say that and steering the conversation away blushed like a strawberry asked if he could tell her about his family and the rest of the clan, smiling he went and told her about them…

Flash back end

Giving his report telling the leaders everything getting a nod and a pat on the back from Harumo spouting off something about a warrior after my own heart and that's the spirit he looked at the others all nodded and Yoshihara just smirked as she caught who he looked at before his report already devising a plan

Naruto seeing the gears in the woman's head working did a perfect impression of a Nara thought 'troublesome…meddling mothers'

Speaking up said "I'll take the bodies to Uzu and have them buried… are the non-combatants loaded on the boat cause I will leave straight away as it is a two day journey their and two days back I'll be back in a week if all goes well"

Yoshihara deciding to answer "they are all loaded and ready to go we will see you in a week then", nodding Naruto turned to his hunters "stay here and help where you can but get some rest you are to follow Yoshihara and Mei's orders"

"hai Uzukage-Tou-sama" they all intoned

Boarding the lead boat they set sail for Uzu

2 days later

Coming across the large whirlpool Zeshin spoke to mimicking Zeshin, Naruto walked to the whirlpool and recited the prayer "Uzume goddess of longevity, our mother, open my eyes, help me to see! Let nothing be hidden that need to be known, where're I speak this magical poem."

Hearing the Prayer Uzume's ethereal voice boomed "MY CHILD I HAVE BEEN EXPECTING YOUR RETURN THE OTHERS SAID TO BE EXPECTING… TELL ME WHY DO YOU NOT BOW TO THE MOTHER OF YOUR PEOPLE…"

"I shall answer you Uzume-hime with another, how do you expect your children to respect and love you if you treat them like slaves would a mother ask her child to bow before her and not expect resentment" said with conviction

"I SEE YOU ARE EVERYTHING THAT ZESHIN SAID YOU TO BE YOU DO NOT HAVE TO BOW I AWCKNOWLEDGE YOU AS THE FATHER OF MY CHILDREN YOU POSESS A KIND HEART, PURE SOUL AND THE WILL OF YOUR ANCESTORS THE WILL OF THE RAGING WHIRLPOOL… YOU HAVE SAID MY PRAYER YOU MAY PASS WITH YOUR FOLLOWERS. I LEAVE YOU WITH ONE MISSION BRING UZUSHIO BACK TO PROMINACE ONCE MORE"

"I accept your mission and thank you Uzume-chan"… giggling Uzume voice boomed "OH NARUTO YOUR MAKING ME BLUSH" and with that the whirlpool disappeared and Naruto laughed at making the goddess blush

Turning around signalled for the ships forward on the shore Naruto signalled for the people to follow him to the ruins of Uzushiogakure.

At the ruins

The village of Uzushiogakure was set in a whirlpool layout the Uzukage tower in the middle with the ANBU HQ and T&I buildings connected on both sides and the council chambers nestled comfortably behind. Surrounding the complex of buildings was a ring road and in front of the Uzukage building was a large whirlpool of Uzume on the next ring was the hospital and non-clan shinobi apartments the next few rings back was the business district with the civilian housing right behind them and on the far outside ring was the clan lands and training grounds in the various parks and spaces between small rivers flowing and green spaces to relax. From the village entrance there is one straight path to the Uzukage tower most of the buildings looked like those from Kiri unfortunately it's all in ruins. Some of the buildings looked to be in the first stages of being repaired

Walking through the front gate or where it should have been, he saw a multitude of small rivulets and a few larger stream all feeding into a large whirlpool in front of what looked to be the old Uzukage tower as he looked around he saw hundreds of people walking round tending to something, he noted the women were walking round looking for food and other helpful resources and the men were starting to repair the buildings while the young shinobi were patrolling on guard

Walking towards the tower people were bowing to him when he reached the tower he found the clan heads and elders sitting round talking noticing him they stood and all bowed to him.

"Ah Naruto-kun good to see you back I see you bought the survivors… I suppose you're here for the re-enforcements" stated Shizuka

"Yes Shizuka-chan" looking at each clan head "I am going to be frank with you the situation in Kiri is worse than I first thought the bloodline faction has about 2,000 capable soldiers made up of bloodline and non-bloodline shinobi that being said the Uzumaki have at least 20 shinobi there and I plan on taking ANBU team delta and Beta along with the fathers guard which surmounts to 78 shinobi none lower than high Chunin and I making the decision to leave behind the Genin and any member who isn't part of the guard or ANBU… I would request do the same and at least commit 70 warriors from your clans, if you can field that many."

Giving the heads a second to think Naruto flared his chakra and Hidekei appeared "ANBU Commander Ryu please gather Squads Delta and Beta as well as the fathers guard, and have them gather on the coast by the ships"

"Hai Uzukage-Tou-sama" he shouted and disappeared

Looking back to the various clan heads they all nodded and one by one said

"I Rima of the Rinha volunteer 75 capable medics to assist you"

"The Amagiri will send 70 battle tested warriors to aid"

"The Ryu are small in number but fight like dragons we will aid you, I pledge 30 of my strongest shinobi"

"This is going to be wild the my hive is tingling with anticipation the Kamizuru will send 70 of our best"

"As I stated in the past the Kodon will stand by you through thick and thin 90 warriors to your banner"

"The Kohaku we will fight by your side, let the enemies blood flow the Kohaku march once more to battle… we will match your 78 shinobi"

Then they all shouted "WE THE CLANS OF UZU WILL STAND UNITED AGAINST OUR ENIMES SO WE MAY PROTECT OUR ALLIES"

Nodding in thanks and doing some mental maths figured he could put forward a force of 413 shinobi. Smiling in thanks "thank you could you please gather your forces and meet on the beach head in one hour…dismissed"

They all bowed and said "hai Yondaime Uzukage sama", that one put him through a loop then it hit him he had an army of shinobi, citizens and a village he really had become the fourth Uzukage of Uzushiogakure.

1 hour later

Standing in front of his host of warriors from all the collective clans he watched as they stood to attention in perfect uniformed lines, using his best battle field voice loud enough to be heard by all even by those in the village he began

"From the First Great Ninja War to the Last, Shinobi have WOUNDED AND COME TO HATE EACH OTHER and SPILL NEEDLESS BLOOD. For the benefit of their OWN Nation and Village. That HATRED led to A DESIRE FOR POWER, that DESIRE FOR POWER CREATED SOMEONE LIKE ME. I too, was once FULL OF HATRED AND POWER! I AM A JINCHUURIKI! I HATED MY OLD VILLAGE and ALL THE PEOPLE IN IT! I constantly thought of NOTHING BUT TAKING REVENGE ON IT. I WAS NO DIFFERENT THAN WHAT YAGURA IS NOW! However a certain DEMON from WITHIN ME STOPPED ME! SHE SHED TEARS FOR ME! HER CONTAINER!
EVEN THOUGH THE PERSON WHO IMPRISIONED HER WAS MY FATHER...
YET SHE HELPS ME! SHE SAVED ME! THE PERSON WHO SHOULD BE HER ENEMY! MY FELLOW SHINOBI! MY BOTHERS AND SISTERS, THE BLOODLINES OF KIRI are suffering the SAME PAIN as me, the moment WE GIVE INTO PAIN, MALICE WILL PREVEIL! HERE IN FRONT OF ME I SEE NO ENIMES. We are ALL ONE and it is because we have ALL BEEN AFFECTED by YAGURA AND HIS PURGES! The Kohaku village, Stone Village, Leaf Village, Mist Village, howling wolf village and the hot-springs village...THEY NO LONGER EXIST WE ARE ONE! WE ARE NOW THE UZU SHINOBI CORP! IF YOU STILL CANNOT FORGIVE PAST TRANSFRESSIONS THEN, I WILL GIVE YOU MY HEAD ONCE THIS WAR IS OVER!
OUR ENEMY IS NOW AFTER PEOPLE LIKE YOU AND ME PEOPLE WITH BLOODLINES! If we do not help, then it will not just END IN KIRI BUT WHEN YAGURA REGAINS HIS ARMY HE WILL TURN HIS SIGHTS ON US AND I WILL NOT ALLOW IT! I WANT TO PROTECT OUR NEW HOME AND PEOPLE LIKE US! I WANT TO PROTECT THIS WORLD FROM SAVEGES LIKE YAGURA! HOWEVER, I AM TOO YOUNG and NAIVE TO DO SO... THAT IS WHY… I NEED ALL OF YOU TO GIVE ME YOUR STRENGTH! To protect our friends and this world, we will fight as one…
Until our dying breaths…

With that the 413 ninja kneeled and shouted "LONG LIVE THE UZUKAGE, LONG LIVE UZUKAGE."

2 days later

In the command tent of the bloodline leaders were discussing battle strategies and a few conflicting views on what to do things were getting to the point of shouting until a Miriki shinobi ran in and kneeled "Hotorubi-sama the Uzukage returns with more ships than before"

"thank you kenji kun you can go now" turning to her fellow clan heads "shall we greet our ally now and maybe he can give us a fresh perspective"

Yoshihara nodded "I agree don't you think Miiko chan"

"Yes I do Yoshi chan" smiled Miiko

Heading out they walked through the camp who were curious at what the boats had.

On the beach, the heads stood in front as the boats nosed up on the beach seconds later 100's of shinobi started jumping off forming up in front of the rebels in perfect lines suddenly parted allowing Naruto to pass through he got to the front and shouted "bloodlines of Kiri I bring you the combined elite forces of the Uzumaki, Ryu, Rinha, Amagiri, Kohaku, Kodon and Kamizuru clans we are the new elite of the village Uzushiogakure we are your allies and we salute you" on Que the 413 U.S.C placed their right fist over their hearts and said "we salute you"

With the appearance of the new shinobi bought many of the people to tears, Naruto walked to the heads and said "I have 70 experianced medics can someone take them to the wounded"

Miiko answered "Yuu!" a Yuki clan shinobi appeared

Naruto called out "Nina! And a Rinha clan shinobi appeared

"Yuu could you take the Rinha shinobi to the wounded" said miiko

"Hai Ma'am"

"Nina could you get your clan mates and follow Yuu here" said Naruto.

"Hai Yondaime sama"

Turning back to the rebellion leaders "I'll meet you at the command tent momentarily" he said nicely, the leaders taking their leave he turned to his men and called "Commander Ryu, Izanagi, Katsu, Ryuunosuke" the four men appeared

"You called sire" stated Izanagi

"Izanagi get the Kamizuru to send out their bees and scout a hundred miles in every direction inland" ordered Naruto

"Hai it shall be done" with that he disappeared

"Katsu have the Guard battle ready at a moment's notice" ordered Naruto

"As you wish Tou-sama" and he left via lava Shun shin

"Ryuunosuke have the Amagiri, kodon and Kohaku set up a perimeter 100 metres outside the walls" he ordered again

"Hai Uzukage sama" and he followed out his orders

Looking to the boats he called out "men and women of the Ryu make camp here and stand guard"

With a cry of "Hai Lord 4th" and they got to work

Turning back to Commander Ryu "Commander bring your squads we will retrieve the hunter squads they are staying in the centre most likely guarding the command tent"

"Hai Sir ANBU on me guard the Uzukage"

At the command tent walking through the tent flap said "so what's the plan of attack".

Harumo answered in his gruff voice "I vote we take an immediate offensive and take back some of the major towns and form a perimeter on the river Tenryu"

"You know we can't do that we have no calculations on enemy numbers in the area we could be walking into a ambush Harumo" argued Miiko

"I agree but we can't not just do nothing we need to show them we are still fighting fit" stated Nanami

Mangetsu spoke up "send in some covert troops to locate the loyalist leaders in the area and assassinate them"

Before the argument could go full circle and seeing Yoshihara standing by his shake her head and whisper "it's been like this since you left"

Whispering back with a raised eye whispered back "Oh really" before speaking up said "I agree with all of you, yes we should take back the land up to the tenryu river but we don't know their numbers but I've ordered he Kamizuru to send out their bees in a 100 mile in every direction inland so in an hour or so we will find out where they are what their numbers are and where the leaders are and concerning Mangetsu's idea, we send units to take out the command post while the rest of the army sets up a line along the river trapping the enemy between the two halves of the army how does that sound as far as I know it appeases everyone here we get the number of enemies, take out their command in the area and the we show force and take the offensive"

All the clan heads were nodding in agreement at the idea as they were happy he was incorporating all their points.

Harumo deciding to voice his thoughts "lead us to victory, the Kaguya stand with you".

"Right then we will split the army in half and three days from now we'll implement the plan" said Naruto as he left the tent.

Walking out the tent Naruto dismissed his hunters and Anbu to relax in the camp by the boats. Walking through the camp he felt a presences behind him then a pair of slender arms wrap around his neck, he then felt a pair of soft mounds pressed against his back followed by a feminine whisper "you came back to me I'm flattered, so when are you…taking me on that date"

"Hello Mei-chan well you will have to forgive me but that will have to wait we are preparing to go on the offensive in 3 days, but if you want you can accompany me while I do the rounds then we can sit down with a coffee by the fire and get to know each other"

"Well that's news to me and yes I would love to accompany you and the coffee sounds great."