I'm so happy I graduated high school this Friday! But I'm still not legally an adult :[
So I decided to update because I'm so happy! So please enjoy!
DISCLAIMER: Naruto doesn't belong to me.
Kyuubi and Takashi were sitting at the table eating breakfast. They would wince from time to time from their bruised bodies courtesy of Naruto. They all talked amongst themselves about the exciting day they will have on chakra training. Naruto got up from the table putting his dishes in the sink and leaving the kitchen. Takashi did the same and followed him out of the house. Kyuubi glared at Takashi as he watched him follow his brother.
"You're a very over protective brother," said Ino.
Kyuubi spared her a look before proceeding to stab his eggs in irritation.
"How did he convince you to let him travel?" asked Kakashi.
"He used the damned puppy eyes trick and a lot of begging. I didn't want to let him, but I don't want to force him to stay here either." Kyuubi sighed as he leaned back in his chair and looked up to the ceiling with a scowl. "I just wish he picked a better person to go with him and not that Takashi."
Naruto and Takashi walked into the dragon stables. They made sure to close the stable door so that no one could ease drop. The dragons greeted them with a little nudge from their head. They stood there waiting for the dragons to establish the connection.
They felt the connection being made and looked to Chikyu.
"Old dragon is it true what Naruto has told me?" asked Takashi.
"Yes it is if what you ask me about is what we have told him," Chikyu answered back.
"These dark ones you spoke of, is there any way for them to find Naruto?"
"That is something we do not know. For we do not know who the new dark master is."
"Nor do we know if he has the Akuma stone," said Kaji already knowing his next question.
Takashi nodded his head at the information. "What about this thing that is supposedly going to help Naruto with tracking the stone?"
"Ah! You speak of the seeing water!" Said Mizu.
Both Takashi and Naruto looked at her confused.
"What is the seeing water?" asked Naruto.
"The seeing water is an enchanted type of water that has the power to show you what you want the most. The bad thing about the water is that it was made from a special well up in the mountains and that well has been destroyed and dried since the day of the great battle. There has been no more."
"Is there anything else that could help us find the stone?" Takashi asked.
"Were afraid not, for the water is the only thing that can help. That water was created by Kami-sama himself and only an object made with his or an angel's power is able to find that stone," said Inazuma.
Takashi sighed as he looked at Naruto who seemed close to stress.
"Naruto don't worry we'll find out a way to find the stone. Even if we have to turn over every rock."
Naruto smiled at Takashi thankful for his support in all of this.
"You shouldn't let that get you down hatchling. I'm sure someone out there has some of that water. So don't give up hope because the second you do that they win." Mizu pulled Naruto close giving him a makeshift hug.
"For now all we can do is tell you to be careful when around others for you never know who is an enemy and whenever you need help or some information you know where to find us," said Kaze.
They both bowed and left the stable. The dragons watched them go with concern for their safety in this journey.
Naruto and Takashi were outside helping the teens learn how to draw out their chakra. Naruto had one half which were the girls, Gaara, and Sasuke. Takashi had the rest on the other side of the backyard.
"Ok let's try this again. Clear your mind, just concentrate on the chakra inside you. Once you feel it draw it out on the palm of your hand. Don't let anything distract you just concentrate." Naruto was growing impatient since they have been out here for three hours and they have yet to get it. There have been times they were close, but lose it as soon as they break that concentration.
Naruto watched as they all had their eyes closed in deep concentration, except for Gaara he had his eyes open staring intently at the palm of his hand.
Naruto bit his bottom lip in anticipation. 'Come on you guys can do it! Yes! Now slowly draw it out!' Naruto watched in excitement as he felt them drawing out their chakra. He watched as the familiar blue chakra color started to appear on their palms.
Naruto was excited as the chakra was in their hands now. 'just a little bit longer!'
"HOLY SHIT!"
They lost concentration making them lose control of their chakra. They were sent to the ground as their chakra recoiled.
Naruto turned to glare at the one who ruined his students' progress. He watched a happy Kiba hold his chakra out saying how good he is.
Naruto walked up to him and punched him in the arm making him lose his chakra.
"OW! What the fuck man?" shouted Kiba
"Because of you they lost their concentration! Do you know how fucking long it took for them to get there? DO YOU!"
Kiba was cowering and whimpering before the angry Naruto as he glared death at him.
"Now Naru-chan clam down," Takashi said, trying to get the blond to relax.
"DON'T GET INTO THIS UNLESS YOU WANT TO BE THE ONE TURNED INTO DOG FOOD!"
Takashi backed away immediately not wanting to get him angry at him.
"Naruto look!"
Naruto turned around to see who dared to interrupt his evil plan when he saw Gaara holding chakra in his palm.
Naruto jumped in glee and hopped on Gaara's back startling him a little.
"Oh thank Kami you got it!" Naruto had a huge grin on his face as he hugged Gaara.
Temari and Kankuro watched nervously hoping Gaara wouldn't hurt the blond for touching him. Gaara's face remained impassive as the blond expressed his happiness for him.
"Yes! Now you should all follow Panda-chan's example and get to work!"
Temari's and Kankuro's eyes widened at Gaara being called Panda-chan. The blond was going to die now.
"Did you just call me Panda-chan," Gaara asked with a stoic voice.
"Um, yea sorry about that. If you don't want me to call you that just tell me and I'll try not to." Naruto had an apologetic smile on his face.
Gaara stared at him long and hard before answer him.
"I don't mind."
Temari and Kankuro looked at their brother in disbelief. They couldn't believe that Gaara is actually letting the blond call him that. Kankuro ran up to him and placed both hands on his brother's shoulders and shook him a little.
"Who are you? And what have you done to Gaara?"
Gaara narrowed his eyes at him before smacking his hands off him.
"Kankuro if you keep asking stupid questions I will have to kill you." Gaara said with all seriousness.
Kankuro gulped and backed away not wanting to anger him further. Naruto looked at the both of them in confusion. He wondered why Gaara practically told his brother he would kill him. 'Why does it look like he hates them?' Naruto decided that he will need to talk to Gaara later and find out why. Naruto isn't stupid he noticed Gaara's distance to the others, he would always put space between himself and the rest. It's as if he doesn't want contact with the others. He has also had a feeling that Gaara knows how he feels and what he is going through.
"Naruto how about we call it a break and have some lunch," said Takashi.
Naruto looked around him to see that everyone was exhausted from the chakra training. Naruto nodded in ok. He didn't want any of them to pass out on them. He went to the house with the others moving towards the shade. It was an unusually hot day today for this season. They were in the last month of fall which surprised the others since in their home they were in the beginning of it. This helped them to figure out that they are ahead of them.
They had all taken off their sweaters and were sitting under a tree relaxing.
"Fuck man! I thought he was about to really kill me! Now I know how Kyuubi feels," said Kiba as he shivered remembering Naruto's angry glare.
"Well you shouldn't have been a noisy mutt and ruined our training!" shouted Ino, irritated by this heat and their unsuccessful training.
Sasuke also threw a glare of his own. He was so close he could feel it, but that stupid mutt had to ruin it!
Kiba cowered under the glare he got from Naruto's group. Akamaru whimpered next to his master not liking those looks at all.
"You shouldn't be scared of Naru-chan he wouldn't really hurt anyone, unless you get on his last nerve like Kyuubi and I do, but I do it because it's fun seeing his angry face. It's a real turn on you know except when he's hurting ya," said Takashi. He was sitting under a tree a few feet away from them with a mischievous smile on his face.
"If Kyuubi was here he would be kicking your ass for saying that," said a blushing Ino.
Takashi shrugged uncaringly. "I can take on Kyuubi whenever so I'm not that concerned, besides I'm just playing around. I would never think that way about Naru-chan."
The girls all gave him disbelieving looks.
"Well most of the time," admitted Takashi, "Its not like any of you couldn't think that way anyway. I'm sure some of you have wondered how it feels like to hold him and kiss him."
They blushed as Takashi gave them that thought.
"Where's the red head?"
They all looked around to see that Gaara wasn't there.
Naruto was in the kitchen preparing some sandwiches for all of them to eat with some fruit slices and freshly made lemonade. He was about almost finished making them. He turned around to take some slices of ham out of the ice box for the sandwiches. He gave a startled yell when he saw Gaara standing there.
"AAAAAAAAAAAH!" Naruto put a hand on his chest to calm down his racing heart.
"Oh, Gaara you scared me! What are you doing here?" he questioned.
Gaara looked at him then looked at the ground. "How?"
Naruto was confused at his question not knowing what he wanted to know. "How what?"
"How do you do it? How do you not let what they say affect you?" he said much louder.
"What do you mean they?"
"THOSE PEOPLE! HOW CAN YOU JUST IGNORE IT WITHOUT LETTING IT AFFECT YOU OR HURT YOU! HOW CAN YOU IGNORE THE PAIN?"
Naruto stood there surprised at his outburst before looking at Gaara with sad eyes. he looked at his eyes to see the same pain and hurt inside himself. He walked up to Gaara and pulled him into a hug. Gaara flinched and stood still.
"I don't. Whenever I walk around and hear them say whatever they say, it really hurts. I feel so much pain and anger whenever I'm out there. I remember when I was like you. I would use to glare right back at them with as much hatred as them; I used to fight back whenever they tried to hurt me. I remember wanting to hurt them as much as they wanted to hurt me, but that didn't work. They would just be encouraged by my reaction to their attacks to up theirs. When I saw this I grew angrier and more hateful, but Kyuubi he changed that. He made me realize that if I let them see how much I was affected by them then they would just feed on that. So I stopped letting them get to me and saw how they got angry because they failed to get a reaction out of the monster." Naruto pulled away from Gaara to look into his eyes. "I don't know what type of problem you are facing, but you must remember this no matter what they do you mustn't let them know that they affect you. In time they will move on and leave you alone."
Naruto gave him one of his bright smiles. Gaara looked at him in amazement. He had never seen someone like him. Someone who wouldn't let what others do get to him. Gaara gave him a little smile of his own.
'I want to be just like you Naruto.'
"Now how about you help me carry these things out!" he said cheerfully.
Gaara nodded as he picked up the pitcher of lemonade and Naruto got the plate of sandwiches and the bowl of fruit. As they walked out of the house Naruto turned around to smile at him again.
"And Gaara the loneliness in you will disappear as soon as you let people in, which I will help you with by becoming the bestest friend you've ever had!"
Gaara looked at Naruto's back in surprise. His eyes softened a little as he looked at him.
'You've already made it disappear a little.'
When Naruto and Gaara joined the group they received cheers for the food. They all sat down to eat and drink. Naruto sat by Gaara and talked to him the whole time. Gaara surprised his siblings by his involvement in their conversation. He would put in his own words and nod. Others would come in join their two person group talking and conversing with Gaara as well. Kankuro and Temari also joined in to be able to watch as their little brother started to come out of his protective shell little by little. Takashi watched them from his tree with a smile on his face watching as another person changed thanks to the help of the little blond.
They have been working on the chakra training for a while now getting almost everyone to form chakra. The few that had trouble were Neji, Hinata, Sasuke, and Lee. While the other three managed to at least draw it out Lee was unable to do so. Lee still tried with determination in his eyes not letting this get to him.
Naruto watched Lee with concern seeing as he has yet to draw out his chakra. Naruto decided to perform a small check on him.
"Lee if you don't mind could I check your chakra system?"
"of course you can my youthful friend!"
Naruto placed his green glowing hand an inch away from Lee's body as he scanned him. The others watched questioningly wondering what was going on.
Naruto got a troubled look on his face as he scanned him. 'No this can't be right! Maybe I should scan again.' Naruto scanned him again as Lee now watched with apprehension.
Naruto stood up straight as he looked at Lee in confusion.
"W-whats wrong?" He asked with a small quiver in his voice.
"Lee your chakra system isn't well developed which means you can't use chakra at all."
Lee looked into Naruto's eyes to see if he was joking, but all he saw was seriousness. Lee bowed his head in sadness.
"So I can't use spell like everyone else?"
"I'm afraid not Lee." Naruto looked at him in sadness seeing that he was upset from the news. Naruto placed a comforting hand on Lee's shoulder. "Don't worry Lee. We will go to Grandma Chiyo's tomorrow and see what we could do."
Lee nodded his head. He walked away heading to the inside of the house. The others watched feeling sad that he isn't able to use chakra.
Tenten walked up to Naruto and looked him in the eyes.
"Isn't there anything you can do?"
"No I'm sorry."
"Has this even been heard of before?" Questioned Neji with concern shining in his eys.
"Yes it has, but usually the people that had this problem died. Thankfully Lee's isn't that damaged so he is fine for the time being. He is able to produce some amount of chakra which is keeping him alive, but unable to use it."
"What is this chakra system you're talking about?" asked Shino.
"It's the system that you have inside you which is producing the chakra. When we all go to grandma Chiyo's she will better explain it for now the lessons over." Naruto walked away from them going to the forest.
They all walked to the house with questions still swimming in their head. Takashi was about to go follow Naruto when he was stopped by Sasuke and Neji.
"We want to continue our training," said Neji.
Takashi arched and eyebrow, "In case you didn't hear Naruto said that lessons over."
"We heard what the Dobe said and we want to continue," said Sasuke with determination in his eyes.
Takashi sighed, "why do you want to continue?"
"b-because we want t-to be able to help Naruto-kun when he needs it."
Takashi looked at Hinata then to the other two seeing how determined they were. Takashi narrowed his eyes at them before smirking.
"All right we will continue."
They all nodded in appreciation as they went back to their spots to continue to draw out there chakra. Takashi threw a concerned glance at the forest.
'I hope you are fine Naruto.'
Takashi went back to helping them reassuring himself that Yuki was out there if Naruto ever needed help.
Naruto walked quickly through the forest trying to find Yuki. Yuki was good at giving advice and was smarter than him so he thought she might know what's going on with Lee and about this seeing water. Naruto wasn't paying attention to the path ahead of him so he didn't see the uprooted tree and tripped face planting on the ground.
"OWW!"
Naruto got up rubbing his face. He turned to glare a the tree. He heard lauching and turned to glare at whoever was laughing at him.
"Hahaha! Damn Naruto you sure are getting dumber everyday!" said the white fox as her tail swished behind her. "You were so close to face planting in some shit to!"
Naruto looked to the ground to see that there was some animal crap on the ground. He quickly got up throwing a look of disgust at the shit lying there.
"Sooo, what brings you to the forest?" she asked.
Naruto stopped glaring at the poop and looked up at Yuki.
"I came to ask you about a damaged chakra path ways and something else."
Yuki grew curious at what this something else was.
"I'm guessing you want to go somewhere a bit more private."
Naruto nodded his head. Yuki indicated for him to follow her. As they left they didn't notice the snake hiding in the bushes.
Naruto and Yuki were near a waterfall. They were climbing up the rocks behind it to get into the cave. Yuki waited for Naruto to catch up as he had difficulty grabbing onto the slippery rocks.
"Come on! I don't have all day you know! I have to be back home by night fall with some food!" shouted Yuki, loud enough for Naruto to hear over the roar of the water.
"I'm trying you damn fox! Can't you see that the rocks are, WHOA, slippery?" Naruto almost slipped when he shouted back.
Yuki rolled her eyes as she sat at the mouth of the cave watching him struggle.
'I wonder if I should help him? Nah! It'll be much more fun to watch him fall!'
Naruto finally made it to the cave seeing a disappointed Yuki. Yuki walked further into the cave with Naruto right behind her. They finally stopped in a room that was filled with blue glowing stones embedded into the walls. The stones had the symbol for water on them. Naruto and Yuki sat in the middle of the room.
Yuki and Naruto had discovered this cave when Naruto was 10. They were out exploring the forest when they decided to climb on the rocks behind the waterfall. When they got half way up there they found the cave. They thought it would be great to explore it and went inside. That's when they found this room full of precious water stones. They decided to keep this room a secret so that no one would come and ruin the beauty of the cave.
"So why do you want to know about damaged chakra systems?" said Yuki wanting to break the silence.
"One of the people staying with us has a damaged chakra system, but it doesn't seem like it would kill him. What I want to know is if it's possible to fix it?"
"Hmm, from what I know it depends on the amount of damage done to the system and even so it could still be problematic. I wouldn't recommend trying to fix it either unless you're a master at healing."
Naruto looked disappointed for a second before asking his next question.
"Have you ever heard of enchanted water called seeing water?"
Yuki looked surprised at his question.
"Yea I have, but only from stories that my mom told me. She said that the water could show you how to get whatever you wanted, but that the water is long gone now. Why? Do you want some of that water?"
"Yes I do I'm gonna use it to find the Tenshi stone."
"well sorry to disappoint you, but its gone and how did you find out about it anyway?" she looked at him questioningly.
"Mizu told me."
Yuki sneered at her name. Yuki has a hate for dragons.
"Why did that flying lizard tell you?"
Yuki waited for Naruto to answer her. Naruto fidgeted nervously thinking of whether or not he should tell her.
Yuki sighed as she looked at him. "Naruto you know you can tell me anything, I won't tell! I mean I was the first one you told about your orientation!"
"Yea and then you went to go blather about it to granny after wards and now look at her! She's a complete perv trying to marry me off to any good looking guy!"
Yuki looked sheepish at the scowl threw at her.
"Ok, ok I'm sorry for telling her, but! I promise that I won't tell a soul!"
Naruto looked at her with uncertainty until she gave him her puppy dog eyes. Naruto sighed and told her everything.
"Wow! How do you get yourself in this type of shit!"
"I don't know Yuki! All I did was go to sleep and the next thing I know is that I'm going to save the world!" Naruto waved his hands around.
Yuki rubbed her paw on her face before looking at Naruto. "I'll talk to Ka-san about the water to try and find out more about it and I'll ask elder fox about your story and the water to."
"Thanks Yuki." Naruto smiled.
"You haven't told Kyuubi have you?"
"No."
"Why not?" she yelled.
"Because if I do Kyuu won't let me go find it! You know how he is Yu-chan!"
"I do, but I believe that you shouldn't hide this from him! Your life could be in danger! Fuck! Everyone's lives could be in danger and you are just keeping this to yourself! What if you fail Naruto? Wouldn't it be better if everyone knew so that we could all be prepared for the worst!" shouted Yuki.
"I haven't kept is to myself! Takashi knows! And don't you think I've thought about that millions of times! I have thought about that I worry about what's going to happen! I worry about what could happen! Fuck Yuki! I would at least like to know that there are people that have confidence in me! I have thought about telling others, but do you think those fucking villagers would believe me the demon!" Naruto was huffing by the end of his rant.
Yuki sat there stunned before looking into Naruto's eyes.
"Naruto I'm sorry I forgot for a second and your right. All I'm trying to do is look out for you. All I ask for you is to train for now, build your strength before you go. I also ask that you tell Aoi about this, she could help you on your journey."
Naruto had calmed down and listened to her. He pulled her into a hug.
"Thanks Yuki and I'll do as you ask. I have to go now see you later."
"See ya."
Yuki watched as Naruto left the cave. She looked to the left to see a snake slither silently after him. She pounced on it pinning it down and making sure it cannot move its head to strike. The snake hissed at her angrily.
"Do you think I'm too stupid to notice you following us?" she said with a smirk.
The snake glared at her and thrashed around trying to escape. Yuki grew tired of watching it. She bit its head off spitting out into some part of the cave.
"If these vile things are following him then this is not good. I must go tell the elders of the forest." Yuki ran out of the cave and down the fall seeing that Naruto was already gone. She ran towards the west of the forest.
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