The promise
By: Narutofan445
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto or any of its characters sighs
Okay everyone I recently started a new story, it's called Omega.
So if you like this story then you'll like my new one. Anyways please review this chapter once you finish reading it. Thanks!
Chapter 9
The word of Naruto's and Jiraiya-sama's return spread though out Konoha faster then a wild fire. In a couple hours Naruto and Jiraiya were crammed in the Hokage office along with all the shinobi's he knew.
Everyone was so excited that both of them where finally back that questions were flying from all directions towards them.
"How've you been?"
"When did you get back?"
"How about we spar?"
"Everyone..." the Hokage yelled, "Calm down!"
Instantly everyone calmed down and said no more.
"Good" she continued, "Now I 'am sure that all of you are excited about the return of Naruto and Jiraiya-sama, but right now I need to talk to them in private, you'll be able to talk to them tomorrow.
Then after lots of complaining everyone except Naruto, Jiraiya, and Tsunade left the room.
"How was your trip?" Tsunade asked.
"Good" the frog hermit said, "at first Naruto was a real pain in the butt while I was training him but eventually he learned how to deal with it and surpassed all my training methods. I am proud to say that he could one day in the far off future beat me."
"What!" Naruto yelled, "I can already beat you!"
"Of course you can Naruto" the frog hermit said laughing.
"Okay that's great" the Hokage said, "but that's not the real reason why I needed to talk to both of you alone"
"What do you mean?" Naruto asked.
"A couple of days ago, while on a mission…." Tsunade said, "A couple of our shinobi spotted Orochimaru, Kabuto, and Saskue"
"What! Naruto roared, "Where did they see him!"
"Settle down Naruto" Jiraiya told him
Even though it was not in his nature to listen to Jiraiya, Naruto made an exception and stopped talking.
"Now like I was saying" the Hokage continued, "the shinobi said that they spotted the trio in wave country"
Tsunade-Sama paused for a couple seconds before continuing. "so far we don't know what they are up to, but I don't want to take any chances so I' am sending a group of our best shinobi's after them……."
"And you want us to be on that group" Jiraiya finished for her.
"Hai…." The Hokage said, "Both of you, along with a couple other shinobi's are going to wave country tomorrow morning at exactly 4:00a.m"
"Obba-chan…." Naruto asked, "What exactly are we to do?"
"You are to confront the trio" Tsunade said, "if possible capture them, but if anything goes wrong then you are to eliminate them"
Naruto's face turned white, if this mission for some reason went wrong then he would have to be the one to take Saskue's life!, but could he possibly be able to do such a thing? The very thought of killing his best friend and spiritual brother sent shivers down his spine.
"Who else will be leaving with us Tsunade-sama?" the frog hermit asked.
"The shinobi's who are going to accompany you two are, Maito Gai, Hyuuga Hinata and Neji, Hatake Kakashi, Haruno Sakura, Akimichi Chouji, Ten-ten, Rock Lee, Nara Shikamaru, Aburame Shino, and Inuzuka Kiba" Tsunade-sama informed then.
"Hmm…." Jiraiya said, "Only two Jounin and the rest Genin"
"Actually Jiraiya" the snail summoner corrected him, "All those people that I just named are now Jounin, the only shinobi that is still a Genin is Naruto"
"What!" Naruto yelled, "All of them?"
"Like you…"Tsunade said, "Each and every single one of them spent the last two and a half years training their butts off"
"Hmph…." Naruto said, "It doesn't matter because I know that I can easily beat any Jounin"
"That's good to know" the fifth Hokage replied, "Because once you get back from the mission you'll have three months until the chunin exam starts"
After a couple more minutes of catching up, Naruto left to get some rest in order to be ready for his mission.
Immediately after Naruto left, Jiraiya and Tsunade-sama began to talk about more serious matters.
"Reiko-kun sure has grown a lot" Jiraiya told Tsunade.
"He sure has" Tsunade replied, "And that's what worry's me"
"What do you mean?"
"Well…." The Hokage said, "Everyone already knows that Reiko is the last surviving Masaru, and the older he gets the bigger the chance that someone will tell him the truth about his clan"
"He has to know someday" Jiraiya told her, "He has a right to"
"I know" Tsunade sighed, "but I' am scared that if we tell him the truth then he'll go after the Hyuuga's (sense the Uchihas are dead), and if he attacks them then they'll have a right to attack back and possibly kill him"
There was silence between the two sannin's for a while until Jiraiya asked, "Has he at least been practicing with his Tsuyoshi?"
"Yes" the Hokage answered, "It's amazing by just using his bloodline, Reiko can without a doubt beat any Genin and maybe a couple low-level chunin"
"Amazing" the frog hermit said, "The Tsuyoshi really is a powerful bloodline….and especially something that should be respected"
"Hai"
Naruto's apartment…...
Even before Naruto reached his apartment he could already smell the delicious mouth watering scent of ramen. Immediately he rushed towards his apartment
By the time he finally reached his small apartment, droll was already falling down the side of his mouth.
Then quickly wiping his droll, he walked into his apartment to find Reiko, Ino, and Hinata inside.
Reiko was sitting down at the table surrounded by countless bowls of ramen, while Hinata taught Ino how to properly make Ramen.
"I' am back everyone!" Naruto shouted as he dropped his stuff on the floor and stretched.
"Naruto-kun!" Hinata shouted as she ran and hugged Naruto.
"I missed you so much Hinata-chan" Naruto said as he hugged her back.
Then after a long passionate kiss, Naruto sat down across from Reiko while Hinata went back to helping Ino.
"When did you get back Naruto?" Ino asked as she put another dish on the table.
'A while ago" Naruto answered, "By the way, what are you guys doing?"
Finishing his current bowl of Ramen, Reiko wiped his mouth and said, "Hinata-chan is teaching Ino-chan how to cook Ramen"
"ooooooh" Naruto said, "I guess that explains all this Ramen"
"Naruto-kun, did Tsunade-sama tell you about our mission tomorrow?" Hinata asked the man of her dreams.
"Yeah" Naruto said, "This is going to be a tough mission for everyone"
"I agree with Naruto for once" Ino said, "Forehead girl has been trying to learn all different kinds of medical Jutsu's ever since she found out we were going to retrieve Saskue"
"If you ask me…." Reiko said, "This whole mission is a waste of time. I mean, why in the world you would risk your life for someone who betrayed all of you and left in search for power".
"Because…" Naruto explained, "Even though Saskue did all those things he is still deep down my spiritual brother and best friend"
"This "Saskue" still doesn't seem worth all the effort" Reiko said.
"Trust me Reiko-kun" Ino said, "Once you meet Saskue, you'll like him"
"We'll see" Reiko replied.
The next morning…..4:00a.m…..
At exactly 4:00a.m all the shinobi's assigned to the mission, along with Tsunade-sama and Reiko, where already at Konoha's main gate.
You would've thought that since it was so early in the morning everybody would be sleepy but surprisingly everyone was filled with energy and anxious to get going.
"I want you to be careful Ino-chan" Reiko told Ino, as he put his arms around her waist and pulled her close to his body.
"I will" Ino replied, as she put her arms around him and laid her head on Reiko's shoulder.
"You'd better" Reiko told her, "Because if you come back hurt, then this'll be the last mission you go on"
Both of them stayed like that for a while, enjoying each other's presence until Sakura came.
""It's time to go Ino" she said.
"I guess I'll see you in a couple days" Ino told Reiko as she lifted he head and backed up.
"Okay" Reiko said.
Then after a long passionate kiss, Ino and Reiko hugged each other one last time.
"Everyone, it's time for us to leave!" Naruto informed everyone.
A couple minutes after the "Good byes" and the "Good lucks" all the shinobi's departed and headed out.
"What now oneechan?" Reiko asked after everyone disappeared from view.
"Go to sleep" the legendary sucker replied walking away sleepily.
Naruto's apartment……..
No sooner had Reiko's arrived at Naruto's apartment when suddenly his head burst into pain.
"Aww!" Reiko yelled in pain. This wasn't like all the other times, because this time his head felt like if it was getting ready to explode.
A couple seconds later the headache disappeared, though the relief didn't last long because soon after, his skin started to feel like if it was on fire.
"Holy shi-" Reiko said as he started to quickly take off his bandages.
When Reiko toke off his bandages he couldn't believe what he saw.
Some sort of tattoo-like thing was covering both his left and right arms.
"What the hell" Reiko said, after the pain left.
Then he walked into Naruto's bedroom and studied himself in the mirror.
Looking closer, Reiko was surprised when he realized that it was a set of directions!
"Where the hell did these come from?" Reiko asked himself.
Then quickly grabbing a blank scroll, he quickly wrote down everything and then put his bandages back on.
Naruto and friends….10:00p.m
After running all day, the shinobi's finally decided to call it a day.
"Finally!..." Chouji said as he bite into a rice ball, "…dinner"
""Yeah, I' am starving" Naruto said.
"Well, we've been running all day" Jiraiya said, "It's not a surprise that we're so tired"
"Yeah and hopefully we'll arrive in wave country tomorrow afternoon" Kiba said
"The sooner the better" Sakura said.
"Yeah, I can't wait to get back to Reiko-kun" Ino said as she toke out a wallet sized photo from her pocket.
It was a picture she and Reiko had taken a couple weeks after they had started dating.
Reiko had both of his arms around Ino's waist; along with his chin resting on Ino's left shoulder; while Ino simply smiled while she laid her hands on top of Reiko's.
Ino sighed as she looked at the picture, it had only been a couple hours since she had last seen Reiko but she already missed him.
"What's the matter Ino-pig, do you miss your Naruto replica already?" a certain pink haired shinobi asked as she sat next to Ino.
"Shut up forehead-girl!" Ino snapped, "You're just jealous that you don't have a boyfriend like my Reiko-kun!"
"You wish Ino-pig!" Sakura replied, "I don't need a boyfriend like Reiko-kun because once Saskue-kun comes back we're going to become boyfriend and girlfriend!"
With that said Sakura walked away, pleased with her comeback.
Ino however became baffled, she hadn't really thought about how things were going to change once Saskue returned.
She tried brushing the thoughts away, telling herself that even if Saskue did come back she would always remain by Reiko's side.
Though that didn't help at all because knew that deep down she still loved Saskue, possibly more then she loved Reiko.
Pushing the thoughts to the back of her mind, Ino simply went to bed. Hopefully she would forget the disturbing thoughts floating around in her head.
Konoha…..the next morning…
After a good nights sleep Reiko got up early and for some reason decided to follow the directions, though he didn't think they would actually lead him anywhere.
So far he had been following the directions all morning and they were leading him all over Konoha.
"Stupid mysterious directions" Reiko muttered to himself as he kept following the directions.
He was getting ready to give up and go back home when suddenly the directions stopped and Reiko found himself in front of an old abandoned building.
The house looked really old, it was obvious sense the house was really worn out.
"So this is it" Reiko thought as he slowly made his way into the building.
It didn't really surprise him much that the inside of the house was totally empty. Though the only thing he did that was there was dust and lots of spider webs.
"This was a complete waste of time" Reiko told himself.
Turning around he started to head towards the door but suddenly black smoke started to leak through his bandages.
Thinking he had caught on fire Reiko immediately started to quickly take off the bandages from both his arms.
A couple seconds later as he threw his bandages to the ground, Reiko was shocked to find out that the black smoke had actually been the tattoo-like markings that had been on both of his arms.
Now those same markings were floating around above his head as black smoke.
"I've got to stop eating so much ramen" Reiko thought.
Raising his hands, Reiko tried to touch the smoke but it suddenly started to cover the entire room and not long after, the entire house.
The house was pitch black for only a couple moments until the smoke finally started to disappear.
Then when it had, Reiko saw that nothing had happened exact for the fact that a floor tile was now glowing.
Not saying or thinking anything, Reiko walked over to the strange glowing tile and touched it.
Immediately Reiko started to scream in pain. He had never felt anything so painful in his life.
He removed his hand hopeing that that would end the source of the pain but it didn't, the pain only got stronger.
The pain then somehow started to spread through his body. Within seconds his whole body felt like if it was being ripped apart.
Falling to the ground Reiko burst into tears and subconsciously activated the Tsuyoshi.
The relief he felt after he did was enough to make him cry some more.
Taking deep breaths, Reiko wiped his tears and slowly rose to his feet.
He stood like that for a while until he made his way back to the tile again.
Not knowing why, Reiko touched the same tile a second time; this time however there was no pain, instead the tile, along with the four tiles surrounding it, all sinked into the ground and disappeared, revealing a secret room.
Again not thinking or saying anything Reiko jumped through the floor and into the room.
Reiko didn't know how but for some reason the room was completely lit up, though there was no source of light anywhere in sight.
The room was pretty big in Reiko's opinion.
Unlike the rest of the house, this room was clean; it looked as if someone had recently come down here and cleaned it.
Walking around the room, Reiko saw what he figured to be hundreds maybe thousands of scrolls, all of which were neatly placed in selves.
"I wonder if anybody knows this is down here" Reiko thought.
Walking past the scrolls Reiko read their labels; apparently they were all scrolls that contained different kinds of Justus's.
He continued to slowly walk past all the scrolls until he arrived at the back of the room.
There Reiko spotted a large symbol engraved on the wall. It looked like an oval with and hourglass in the middle of it.
In front of the wall was an alter. Getting closer to the alter Reiko saw something that caught his eye.
The alters top was covered by a large seal which was under a sword and a letter.
The sword looked beautiful in Reiko's opinion. The blade of the sword glowed with beauty; it seemed as if it had enough light to shame even the sun itself!
On both sides of the swords handle was the same strange seal that was on top of the alter, and on the end was the design that was engraved on the wall.
Picking the sword up, Reiko felt a warm sensation throughout his body.
Swinging the sword a couple times, Reiko noticed that the sword was incredibly light. He practiced with it for a couple minutes until he laid it back down on the alter and picked up the letter.
Reiko stared at the letter for a couple seconds, deciding whether or not to read it. That is, until curiosity got the best of him and he began to read.
What he read next changed his life forever, maybe for the worse.
Dear reader,
If you are reading this letter then that probably means that something horrible has happened to our entire clan and you are the last surviving Masaru.
At this point Reiko's mind went numb.
Did what he just read was true? Could he possibly be the last of his clan?
If this letter was telling the truth then that would explain why he had never met any of his relatives.
Though despite of what he had just found out, Reiko forced himself to read on.
I am truly sorry to say this, but it is up to you to revive our clan.
The room you are in is filled with countless amounts of scrolls that contain every jutsu known to our clan, along with a scroll filled with Kenjutsu's that were given to our clan by the Kages to protect.
One last thing, you are probably admiring the sword that is in front of you but I must warn you that no one, not even you, is allowed to use the sword. It has a special seal of the handle that allows only a Masaru to access it so only you can touch it.
The sword was created by our clan to help protect Konoha, but its powers were far too great for even us to handle so we sealed it in this room, along with these scrolls.
So under no circumstances is the sword to leave this room.
With that said I must say that when you revive our clan it is important to teach the new generation our customs and beliefs. Teach them it's better to laugh and smile rather then cry and frown, tell them that grudges are never okay to have because they only destroy the soul. But most important of all, learn to love your enemies no matter what just like we did.
Good luck and may all the gods be with you.
-The Masaru clan
As Reiko finished reading the letter he stood completely still. He didn't know what to feel, Sad? Mad?
He did know one thing though; the last part of the letter fell on deaf ears. All he could think about was revenge.
He wanted no more then to take the life of the people that toke his family away from him.
Placing the letter in his pocket, Reiko pushed his feeling to the back of his mind and climbed out of the room.
Outside he put back on his bandages and headed towards the Hokage tower for answers.
Okay every here's chapter 10! I hope you like it, and please review!
Sorry I haven't updated lately but I just finished watching the complete
D.N Angel series and I've got to say, that I loved it!
Well anyways, remember to review!
-Narutofan445