Code: Disclaimer: Go Go Power Range... Err...
Ben: ... Is that all you have to say after all these months!?
Code: (laughs nervously) Forget that I said that. Seriously, forget it.
Ben: Anyways, welcome to the latest chapter of... BLACK LIGHTNING!
Black Lightning
Chapter 10: Bloodline
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"The only rock I know stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is family." Lee Iacocca
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Naruto left Kiri immediately, knowing full well the consequences of staying in the village. Kasumi had been furious when he'd left unexpectedly, and she'd be furious if she found him still within the country's borders. Therefore, the most logical choice of action was to flee for his life, to Konoha. With Akane and Hikaru in tow, he traveled during the day. Deidara, Gaara, and Tobi traveled with the HACS to Akatsukigakure no Sato, while Kisame left to attend to Itachi. The blond was still tired from the previous battle, and so the three had to go by foot. It wasn't bad, they quite enjoyed the scenery, but it would've been preferred to arrive earlier, because he had a deadline to keep.
It was a very important deadline, mind you. It involved himself, a pervert, and a jutsu, but that's something for a later time...
Within the end of the first day, they had entered into the boundaries of Hi no Kuni. Within the afternoon of the second day, they had reached the gates of Konoha. It wasn't hard when you had three ninja of Rank A and higher who could apply chakra to improve their travel speed. Well, it was a bit harder when one of them was suffering from minor chakra exhaustion.
The three stood in front of the massive gates, wondering why they were closed so late during the day. Normally there should have been a guard or two at the very least, but alas, there were none to be found. Unless by some miraculous chance that someone came by within the next five minutes and opened the gates, they'd have to get in the old-fashioned way... Go through the wall. So, for the next few minutes they waited in silence. By a stroke of luck, Sandaime happened to be taking a stroll on the walls, overlooking the defenses.
The Hokage looked down in surprise, recognizing Naruto's blond hair anywhere.
'Did he come unannounced? Isn't he supposed to be in Kiri to prepare for a treaty signing?' were the thoughts that traveled through the aging ninja's mind. Certainly, the appearance of several shinobi who should be in another country would be surprising.
Naruto, sensing the man's presence, looked up to meet his counterpart's gaze. Grinning, he waved with his left hand, at the same time pointing at the gate with his right. This gesture was not lost on Sandaime. He performed several hand seals, resulting in the slow opening of the gates. This was an emergency measure when one could not access the mechanism that usually opened and closed the gates, and Sandaime had to admit, sometimes it came in handy.
Soon enough, the two Kage were walking through the streets, alone. There were no civilians, no shinobi, no trace of anyone. Hikaru and Akane were not present because Naruto had fervently insisted that the two should check the apartment for hidden booby traps. A wonderful excuse to get rid of annoying bodyguards who didn't give him a moment's peace... right? Right?
"So, what brings you to Konoha?" Sandaime asked casually. "You're supposed to be in Kiri right now, Naruto."
"Well," the blond said, glancing around nervously in remembrance, "I kind of pissed off the Mizukage while I was there, so I thought I should make a break for it while things were still hectic."
"Wasn't there a nukenin uprising recently?" the Hokage replied after sifting through recent information that had found its way onto his desk. "I heard that there was a massive buildup of nukenin. Did you by any chance take part in it?"
"Sure did. Me and the HACS assisted Kiri... Oh that reminds me, I need to be there in two days to sign the finished treaty."
"The only way they would let the Hikage leave the city would be if..."
"If they never knew that I was the Hikage," Naruto finished gleefully, a grin appearing on his face. "I've always been a prankster at heart, even during my training with Akatsuki. My favorite target was Kisame, boy, those were the times." He smiled reminiscently, at the times when Sasori had chased Kisame around the hideout with the Kazekage puppet, the times where Itachi had hoarded all of the Pocky in a secret compartment. The good times when Yoshi had always played chess with him, and always won. The happy days were gone, and now it was time to get serious.
Naruto set his face into a grim expression. As soon as possible, he'd make Iwa and the Tsuchikage pay for what they did. They'd pay for killing his comrades, friends, and adopted family. With the remainder of Akatsuki and the shinobi of Akatsukigakure, he'd annihilate Iwagakure no Sato and leave not even a fistful of remains to remember it by. Pretty soon, his village would be allied with both Konohagakure and Kirigakure, two of the five main powers. Add to the fact that Konoha was now allied to Sunagakure, their four-way alliance would descend upon the rats like an avalanche upon a deer.
"I'm looking for Jiraiya," he informed Sandaime. "That's currently the only reason I'm here at the moment. I'm here to learn... a jutsu, familial jutsu to be specific."
The old Hokage snapped his fingers, an imaginary light bulb going on above his head.
"Ah yes, Jiraiya arrived just three days ago with information on the status of Iwagakure. It seems that they are elated by their so called 'victory' over Akatsuki, and are boasting of their strength to all shinobi nations. I would suspect that he's near one of the various hot springs that are dotted throughout Konoha. Find him, I'm sure he'll be more than enthusiastic to pass on your father's techniques."
With a salute, the two parted ways. One to his office to sign more paperwork, the other to the nearest possible hot spring, in pursuit of the most notorious pervert to grace the ranks of shinobi. As a ninja, he moved fluidly from one hot spring to another, wasting little to no time in checking the area over. Of course, he took special care not to look into the hot spring, otherwise he'd be just as bad as Jiraiya.
Pretty soon, he had found the perverted Sennin's telltale white hair perched on top of a tree. The tree, of course, overlooked the hot spring, the fourth that Naruto had been to. He quickly and silently created a Kage Bunshin, sending it to perform the infamous Konohagakure Hiden: Taijutsu no Ougi: Sennen Goroshi. Sadly, kunai hit the Bunshin in the back, dispelling it before it could accomplish its mission. The Jiraiya in the trees disappeared with a pop, leaving only smoke clouds behind. He was getting smarter...
"I try and learn from my mistakes, gaki," the Sennin drawled while leaning against the wooden wall of the hot spring that he had been peeking inside of earlier.
"If so, then shouldn't you stop peeping into the hot spring?" the blond countered swiftly. For someone like himself, who had been raised to never commit perverted acts, Jiraiya was the epitome of evil.
"Pft, it's a blessing, not a mistake," the white-haired man retorted in reply to the accusation, glaring at the thirteen-year-old for good measure. "The only thing I've learned from the beatings are to use Kage Bunshin to peep safely."
That was when a wash-bucket hit him on the head. The girls knew that they were there, meaning that their time was up. The two took running leaps into the tree line, moving at a brisk pace. Jiraiya wrote in his notebook, muttering to himself, while Naruto lost himself to his memories again. Memories of playing 'All or Nothing' with Kakuzu, pranking Kisame, and painting Sasori's puppets and blaming it on the previous shark-faced man. Those were times he'd miss, but that was in the past, and this was now.
"You're here to learn it," Jiraiya stated obviously, the two Kage level shinobi landing in a clearing just outside of Konoha. "If you have, you've come at the right time."
"Huh, why else would I be here?"
Half smirking, half smiling, Jiraiya whipped out a medium-sized scroll from a smaller containment scroll. He tossed it to Naruto, the two-foot-long scroll flying lazily through the air and into the blond's outstretched hand.
"Inside of that scroll... are all of the requirements that you need to fulfill in order to begin the Hiraishin training," the Sennin informed Naruto. "You must meet all of the requirements to prevent the risk of self injury or unpreparedness."
"One-hundred-fifty kilogram weights on each limb, an unusually high chakra capacity, patience, determination, and lots of paper, ink, and brushes." Naruto looked up after reading from the scroll. "What the hell? Don't tell me this mediocre-"
Jiraiya whipped out another scroll and tossed it to Naruto, who caught it just as easily as he did with the first. Opening it, the blond read through it quickly. He could see why the previous scroll had asked for what it did. Inside were detailed explanations on why the Hiraishin kunai were used, how it was more useful than conventional kunai, what action the kunai performed, and what the fuuin accomplished. At the end of the scroll, said fuuin was super-imposed in black ink, and boy was it complex.
Proficient with Fuuin Jutsu, Naruto could see that the fuuin was a Kuchiyose Fuuin. Its purpose was to 'teleport' the user to the location of the kunai at the speed of light. Essentially, the Kuchiyose Fuuin, or jutsu-shiki, would need to have been on the kunai for it to work, thus the ever hardworking Yondaime had made super-miniature fuuin to be placed around the handle. To draw such a small fuuin would require the patience, determination, and supplies that the scroll had asked for earlier. Now that he read a little further though, the jutsu-shiki could basically be placed on anything, though kunai were preferred.
"Arashi made and developed his own kunai and fuuin," Jiraiya announced. "It took him many, many years of development during his Chuunin and Jounin years to perfect it, finally putting it to use in the Iwa-Konoha War and practically winning it single handedly using that technique."
Naruto's eyes dropped down to look further at the scroll and read the reason why the specific Hiraishin kunai were used.
"Triple-tipped kunai have a greater probability of making contact with the object that it is thrown at, which is necessary in order to perform the Hiraishin no Jutsu. Any of the three ends can activate the Kuchiyose Fuuin, which will then allow the user to teleport to that location. An added effect of the multiple tips is that it becomes increasingly difficult to catch the kunai without taking some form of damage to the hand. While conventional kunai may be stopped by grabbing lightly onto the handle or edge, the Hiraishin kunai's triple-tips prevent the opponent from taking hold of the edge safely. Should he/she attempt to catch it by the handle, the fuuin on the handle will explode, a precautionary measure against those who would seek to derive the secrets of the Hiraishin no Jutsu from said fuuin."
"Pretty complicated and well thought-out, huh?" the Sennin commented, leaning against a tree and smirking smugly. "Whilst I was the Konoha no Fuuin Shishou, Arashi was the tensai, a genius. Not even I can decipher the secret to the Hiraishin's special fuuin. Adding to that, Arashi created the Shiki Fuujin, the ultimate Fuuin Jutsu that ultimately placed Kyuubi into you. Concerning that jutsu, I wouldn't be able to figure it out even if I were given a hundred years."
"That good?" Naruto asked disbelievingly. "We'll leave that for another time, now let's continue. The edges of the three tips are lined with specially designed spines that can rip into and tear flesh like a hook. Because they are so minuscule and impossible to see even at a distance of half a foot, it is the perfect surprise when using it as a weapon rather than a jutsu activator. Now, to the process. When the kunai hits a solid object, it initiates the Kuchiyose Fuuin's activity. When the user releases some of the previously stored chakra, that chakra will be used to activate the Hiraishin no Jutsu and instantly teleport the user to the point of impact. At this point, the user is moving literally at light-speed, and for the few impossibly tiny measurements of time before he/she actually appears at the final location, the user can see everything around then in stopped motion. This is due to the light-speed movement of the user, and he/she can use this brief moment of insight to immediately take action upon teleportation, killing or disabling the opponent swiftly and moving to the next kunai's position just as swiftly."
"And that's how he earned the name "Konoha no Kiroi Senkou," commented the white-haired Sennin. "Basically, everything that any of his opponents could see was a yellow flash, the flash being his teleportation and the color specifically stemming from his hair, before they were killed."
"Crazy."
"No, insane."
Naruto scowled at Jiraiya's childish correction, and scowled again when he noticed that Jiraiya had stood up to his full height, intent on looming over the thirteen-year-old. The blond was very sensitive about his height, you see. It didn't matter what his reputation was or how powerful he had become, people saw a kid when they looked at him, not a fearsome Hikage. He wanted to be feared and respected, not treated like a child.
"Oh!" the Sennin exclaimed in shock. "I forgot to tell you something. There is a second form of the Hiraishin no Jutsu. The second form doesn't require the use of the kunai, but replaces that medium of teleportation with a lot of chakra, something that you have an abundant source of."
"Really?" Naruto replied dubiously. "Is it anywhere near as fast?"
"It'll never reach the same speed as the first form, but it has the advantage of not having to rely on the contact of the kunai. You see, if you missed with the kunai, the teleportation would be useless unless they moved in front of it again," he explained, using his large frame to gesture wildly. "The second form lets you move around anywhere without the use of the kunai, so it's better in a one-on-one or against a large group of highly-skilled enemies."
"Wait... what? Wouldn't a larger group make an easier target for the Hiraishin kunai?" questioned Naruto confusedly. "Argh, this is so confusing."
"Put it this way. Skilled shinobi would know that the only way to counter the Hiraishin no Jutsu's first form is to not get near any of the kunai in the first place. That means they'd opt offense for stealthy hit-and-run tactics. Now, using the second form, you can zip up to their face and wipe the floor with them without having to throw anything."
"How fast is it?"
"Arashi was able to go fast enough to create afterimages that trailed about three to five meters behind his constantly moving location. Technically, it's very close to the speed of sound, but nowhere near the speed of light. Oh, and it's definitely faster than the demonic speed that you displayed during the Chuunin Exam preliminaries."
"I see," the blond muttered. He did see. The Hiraishin no Jutsu was unstoppable. If someone knew how to counter the first form, they wouldn't know how to counter the second form. If they knew how to counter the second, he could use the first. If they knew how to counter both, he could use a mixture of the two to keep the opponent always on the move and eventually get them against a kunai. "Yondaime really was a tensai..."
"Heh, I was trained by Sarutobi-sensei, and he was trained by me. Now you're being indirectly taught by your father and me, and add to that your current strength, you'll be unstoppable by the time I'm finished with you," Jiraiya boasted confidently.
"Maybe..."
"Hm?"
"Demons. Dad, no matter how strong he was, he was still human. He couldn't match a demon's strength. There are still other jinchuuriki in the world, and that could be problematic if they become enemies," Naruto explained. "No one is truly immortal, not even Orochimaru."
"True," admitted the Sennin, rubbing his chin. "There's also the fact that you're still associated with Akatsuki, village or not, and they might hold a grudge."
Naruto and Jiraiya stood in silence, the only noise coming from the rustling of leaves. The cry of a falcon that was circling the sky caught both of their attentions, Jiraiya specifically holding out his arm. The brown falcon dropped down speedily, slowing in its descent and landing safely on the outstretched limb. The Sennin took the tiny piece of paper that was tied around the predatory bird's leg and read it to himself.
"Well gaki, it seems my time here's been cut short. Orochimaru is on the move and Sandaime just got wind of it. He needs me to oversee the spy network again."
"Uh, what about the-"
Jiraiya popped out two more scrolls from the container scroll, handing both to Naruto.
"The first one that I'm giving you will teach you the second form of the Hiraishin no Jutsu, though I suggest working on the second scroll first, the one with the blueprints of the special kunai. So, first things are first, which is to get rid of the most troublesome work early on. Finish the kunai and the fuuin, make about a dozen or two, and then work on the jutsu."
"Uh, how does the first stage work?"
"You throw the kunai, and it hits a solid object," Jiraiya sighed in exasperation. "It doesn't immediately teleport you. You need to first release some of the chakra that you earlier put in the fuuin. It's as simple as that. Throw, release, and slice and dice your opponent."
He turned around to leave, but stopped.
"Oh, and I suggest to either learn to forge the kunai yourself or find someone very, very, very loyal to do it for you. I can't believe how many people out there are still looking for the blueprints for the kunai. Your father was never idiotic enough to lose any of his kunai – He always carried a certain amount and counted how many he had once his opponents were dead. Very thorough he was."
'Ugh, so troublesome,' the blond thought dismally, using Shikamaru's favorite catch phrase.
"Ah, a few more things. Make a Rasengan."
Naruto looked at the white-haired man strangely, but did as he was told. The swirling ball of blue chakra appeared quickly in Naruto's right hand, a testament to how much he'd been practicing.
"Good, good, you can make one in one-and-a-half seconds. Not excellent, per say, but it's better than I expected from you."
The blond scowled at the subtle insult, choosing to save revenge for another day. For now, he was occupied with treaty signing, alliance making, and jutsu learning. He had no time to make Jiraiya's life miserable, at least not now anyways.
"Oh, and take this."
The Sennin handed Naruto a box.
"Huh?" Naruto said in confusion. He opened it to find three battle-worn Hiraishin kunai.
"Final thing before I leave," the Sennin told Naruto. "I suggest that you go see Kakashi before you leave Konoha, he'll prove really useful concerning the Rasengan.
"Huh?" the blond repeated.
"Sayonara, gaki!" Jiraiya yelled, disappearing in a cloud of smoke, the aftereffects of a Shunshin no Jutsu.
The words 'Nature Manipulation' were left hanging in the air, mere whispers by the time the smoke dissipated. Manipulation, he'd heard of it before. It was what allowed ninja to turn their chakra into fire in order to perform the Katon: Goukakyuu no Jutsu. Whilst manipulation let a shinobi turn their chakra into an element of nature, an affinity was the proficiency of that element. If one had an affinity for Wind, he or she would be infinitely better when performing Fuuton jutsu than any other jutsu.
Now came the mystery.
What in the seven layers of hell did nature manipulation have to do with Rasengan and Hatake Kakashi?
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"Family is a haven in a heartless world." Christopher Lasch
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Kakashi lounged around as he always did at Training Ground Three. He read from his precious orange book, the infamously perverted book written by Jiraiya of the Sannin. How he survived as such a deprived man, nobody knew. Mitarashi Anko had once asked why he never bothered to choose a girl from his fan-girls instead of reading that godforsaken book. He hadn't answered, but merely showed her a page of his book. She passed out instantly.
Currently, his three charges were training. More specifically, Sakura was watching while Sasuke and the unnamed boy sparred. The new Genin wasn't anyone special. He was an average brunette. He would grow to be average, probably at a Chuunin or Jounin level, and then stay there and never accomplish anything truly important. Naruto didn't really like average people, they were too bland for his taste.
"Hey Kakashi!" the blond called out, landing on the center stump of three which were in the middle of the clearing. "I need to have a quick conversation with you."
"Oh?"
The nonchalant reply brought another scowl to Naruto's face. Oh, how he hated that indifference, and yet it made him so cool.
"I was told that you could be of some use to my training."
"Training?" Sakura asked. "Why do you need to train? You're the Hikage!"
"Indeed, Hikage-sama," drawled Kakashi. "What exactly do you need assistance with?"
Kakashi walked up to the blond, who leaned forward to whisper into the silver-haired Jounin's ear.
"Jiraiya told me that you could help me. Mentioned 'nature manipulation' before he left though. Oh, and just call me Naruto. The title makes me feel old, and I'm only thirteen-and-a-half."
"Heh, alright," Kakashi conceded. "I get the same thing. People think I'm old but I'm only twenty-five years old."
Naruto squinted his eyes, staring at the Jounin.
"You're kidding me. You're that young?"
Kakashi sweatdropped, at the same time scratching the back of his head with his left hand. His right hand, of course, was holding onto Icha-Icha Paradise. He couldn't possibly look that old, could he? I mean, if he flashed his face to any girl, they'd fall into a dead faint or into obsession. Old people couldn't be handsome... right? How could anyone stereotype him into being old just by the color of his hair? It just wasn't fair...
Shaking his head clear of such thoughts, he began thinking thoughtfully of what the blond had just mentioned. If he wasn't mistaken, Jiraiya had told him to teach Naruto nature manipulation. Normally, nature manipulation is already in a jutsu in the form of hand seals, thus, anyone who had the perseverance to master the jutsu could perform basic nature manipulation. But this was Jiraiya that they were talking about. One never talked about 'basics' when referring to one of the Sannin. That would mean that the Sennin wanted him to teach Naruto advanced nature manipulation, the adding of an element of nature to an element-less jutsu or one's own creation. Advanced nature manipulation was required when inventing elemental jutsu, because using nature manipulation in the form of seals was one thing, but applying that same element to a jutsu was another.
For one thing, a jutsu initially started out with no hand seals whatsoever. By adding hand seals, the creator increased the complexity of the jutsu, whether it is in shape and form or purpose and function. They have to add the nature of the jutsu as well, but that can't be done when they don't know how the element truly works, thus they have to learn the advanced mechanics of nature manipulation. Essentially, a successful shinobi didn't need to know it, but the smart shinobi would.
Kakashi closed his book abruptly, snapping it shut and placing it in his equipment pouch. His eyes were slightly narrowed, but Naruto couldn't decipher any emotions or motives behind those eyes.
'Nature manipulation?' Sasuke thought to himself. He smirked. 'It took me an entire month to get down the basics and master it, something you probably don't have.'
Indeed. In a single month, he had learned and nearly mastered Chidori, Kakashi's sole original move and one he had created during the Iwa-Konoha War. Mastery, something very few could achieve in a month. Sure, someone could master a jutsu in a week or two, but that would be just the basics of basic nature manipulation, learning to use the element. Mastering it meant that you could basically use any jutsu associated with that element, only practicing the use of certain amounts of chakra required for the jutsu. As it was, Kakashi hadn't bothered teaching Sasuke any other Raiton jutsu...
"Naruto, do you... know the Rasengan?"
The blond simply nodded an affirmative, wondering why Kakashi even bothered to ask.
"Form one. Right now."
"...Why?"
Kakashi sighed heavily, raising his left hand to run through his hair and release some annoyance. Seriously, why did this kid need to call him old, for one, and now disregard his request? Hikage or not, it was still impolite, after all, he was trying to train the blond.
"I want to be sure that you can actually make one."
Naruto sighed this time, because of the fact that Kakashi had to see it to believe it. Did the silver-haired Jounin have no faith in him? Nevertheless, Naruto held out his right hand, palm facing up, and formed the familiar swirling sphere of a Rasengan. Kakashi recognized it easily, because for one, no other jutsu looked like it, and two, because his sensei was Naruto's father after all. After having been around Arashi so long, it would've been impossible to forget how one of his sensei's best moves looked, or even sounded for that matter. Yes, Naruto truly was his sensei's son...
"I see," Kakashi murmured, his eyes narrowing further and his face becoming serious. "So, Jiraiya-sama believes that you can succeed, whereas your father failed?"
'Father?' the three Genin of Team 7 thought.
"Failed?" Naruto repeated.
Kakashi held out his own right hand, an exact replica of Naruto's jutsu forming in his open palm. The blond simply gaped at the Jounin's hand, as if it weren't real. Huh, after all, who wouldn't have their jaws slacked and in disbelief when someone just performed the same jutsu as you, the same one that supposedly only his father and Jiraiya knew.
"I see you're surprised," the one-eyed Jounin commented half-cheerily. "I'm not surprised that you're surprised, because Jiraiya-sama's memory wanes when it comes to these little irrelevant things."
"I-Irrelevant!?" the blond Hikage stuttered out. "You knowing the Rasengan surely is relevant! I'll kill that old coot when I see him again!"
"It is irrelevant. I was taught Rasengan by Jiraiya-sama to keep your father's legacy living, at least in the form of jutsu. When he found that you were still alive, he taught you the Rasengan. My knowing it doesn't matter anymore now that you're here. It will die with me and live on with you, it's as simple as that."
"Wait a minute!" Sakura interrupted. "The Rasengan was Yondaime's jutsu! That would mean..."
"Yeah, Yondaime was Naruto's father," Kakashi clarified in a bored tone. "Like father like son I guess. His father was a prodigy who became the youngest ever Hokage, just as Naruto is probably the youngest Kage, or around there."
"Actually, Kasumi of Kirigakure no Sato is youngest," corrected Naruto. "But she's more around your skill level."
"..." 'Does he enjoy contradicting me?'
"Enough chit-chat. Why did you make a Rasengan yourself?" Naruto growled. "If there's no reason for me to keep up the jutsu, I might as well cancel it."
"Ah, I made one myself because I wanted to clash our Rasengan together," Kakashi said cheerily, his eyes curving up into a 'U' shape. "Is there a problem? Or is it that you think you can't beat mine..."
Naruto stopped all his actions abruptly, his eyes widening and his head whipping around to face Kakashi. The Jounin had just mocked his skill and bravery, something very few people even dared to do. His own pride had just been attacked and injured, and he would not let this pass without consequence. Oh yes, the cyclops would pay dearly.
"I accept your challenge," the blond stated grimly, spreading his legs and bringing his right arm back. "Whenever you're ready."
"I'm ready," retorted the silver-haired Jounin, setting himself into a similar stance. "Are you? It's okay if you back out at the last minute..."
"Bring it on, you one-eyed freak!" Naruto snarled before charging forward.
"As you wish, short one," the blond's opponent growled darkly, also charging.
Within seconds, the two were within katana distance, then punching distance, then wrestling distance, before the two thrust their own respective swirling orbs of energy into their opponent's. A tiny shock wave blasted at the impact, blowing away anything within ten feet that was not anchored to the floor. The two energies fought for dominance, creating spheres of influence and power around the two. Unfortunately, unlike the Chidori or Raikiri, the Rasengan wasn't something you could just pump more chakra into, thus the two opponents' jutsu were at the same level of destruction.
BOOM
The two flew away from each other as the spheres of influence collapsed and exploded outwards. Kakashi slid along the ground while Naruto began performing back flips. In the end, neither had won and neither were injured. This only served to wound the blond's pride further, as he couldn't make Kakashi eat the words that had earlier damaged that same pride.
Kakashi sighed, bringing up his left hand to run through his hair.
"You've improved greatly since I last saw you, Naruto," he muttered loudly enough for the blond to hear. "Just like your mother."
It was then that the Jounin realized his mistake. Naruto's eyes widened visibly, his breathing quickening. Kakashi knew that he shouldn't have mentioned the blond's mother; it would lead to strife for Naruto, and strife was something the thirteen-year-old shouldn't experience at this point in time. He strove to find a way to avert the incoming crisis, to no avail.
"Did you... know my mother?" Naruto growled in a low tone.
"Ah, take a break you guys," Kakashi told the Genin. He then proceeded to take Naruto by the shoulders and lead him away from Team Seven.
At about fifty feet in distance from his students, Kakashi began pacing. How should he break it to the blond? Be truthful? Lie?
"I just want to know..."
Kakashi sighed for about the umpteenth time, before stuffing his hands in his pockets and staring into Naruto's eyes. He could find no anger, no sadness, only a want for that information, information about family that he had never had. A family that could have given him love never experienced as a young child. It made Kakashi cringe.
"Alright," he let out slowly. "Your mother, her name was Uzumaki Naomi. She was a Jounin from Kumogakure no Sato; by staging her own death during a mission, she traveled to Konoha to live out a peaceful life without battle or death. Here, she met your father while he was still a Jounin with a Genin team. By the time I'd turned Jounin myself, sensei was engaged to her. Unfortunately, she died during the Kyuubi attack, leaving the hospital immediately after your birth to assist in the slowing it down."
"I see," Naruto murmured sadly. "So she's dead, just like dad."
"Well, she..."
"What is it?"
Kakashi scratched his head sheepishly, catching Naruto's attention. What would make the normally nonchalant Jounin do such a thing, unless it was truly embarrassing, or even personal? Perhaps it was the admission that he was gay, or that he had feelings for his sensei's fiancée... Okay, check that, maybe just the admission that he was gay...
"Your mother, she still has living relatives."
The only thing that could be heart in the training ground was the noises of crows and the bickering of Team 7. Then again, they were always bickering and thus could be considered unneeded noise.
"WHAT!?"
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"When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses." Joyce Brothers
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Naruto trudged along a well-traveled dirt road, his arms itching to bring out his chakra fangs and to just slice – it didn't matter what, as long as it helped him rid himself of some frustration and annoyance. Just twenty-four hours ago, Kakashi had told him that he had living relatives, in Kumogakure of all places. A former enemy, and one that still held contempt towards Konoha, yet his only remaining family resided on the opposite side. Fate worked in strange ways.
Seeing the urgency of the matter and the shock in Naruto's eyes, the Jounin had suggested that they put off the nature manipulation training until the blond returned from visiting his family, should they be willing to meet with him or even speak with him for that matter. He was entering an alliance with Konoha after all, and who knows what could happen.
He'd left immediately towards Rai no Kuni, taking only necessary equipment with him and leaving his two bodyguards behind. They did not need to see the family reunion.
A disturbance to the left in the nearby forest set off all of the blond's internal alarms, his body stiffening and instinctively reaching for his shuriken holster. Fingering a kunai, which ironically belonged in the shuriken holster, he tensed as the trees shook and the presences of hostiles grew stronger. As a Kage, he would be hard-pressed to lose again nukenin, let alone bandits, but he wasn't going to take any chances.
A figure burst out of the tree line, a variety of cuts and gashes on her body.
Wait a second... her?
Naruto did a double-take, catching sight of her blond hair before she disappeared into the tree line on the other side of the road. How strange... judging from her injuries, she would be being pursued by enemy ninja.
Eight shinobi leaped out of the tree line and landed on the road, all of them bearing the mark of a nukenin, a slash through their Iwa hitai-ate. They looked around, obviously in search of the mysterious kunoichi who had seemed to outsmart the eight men. As luck would have it, one of them spotted him. God damned luck.
At the very limit of his senses, he felt the kunoichi stop her travel abruptly. That didn't bode well. Whether or not the enemy was following you doesn't mean that you can stop fleeing.
The nukenin spoke amongst themselves, muttering under their breaths to the tallest shinobi of the group, and the obvious leader.
"Kill him."
Naruto smirked as he spread his feet, his arms held out in front of him. Oh, this was going to be fun.
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"Family means putting your arms around each other and being there." Barbara Bush
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The blonde had begun backtracking, wondering why her pursuers had stopped. She had seen a lone child on the road, with a really fancy get up... That was it. The nukenin had stopped to mug that poor kid. The mere thought of it brought anger to her expression, which served to increase the speed in which she moved. She had initially been fleeing because of the terrible odds, having fought thirteen enemies and killing five of them with elaborately-set traps.
She stopped at the tree line and looked out. The shinobi had now surrounded the boy, who looked strangely... happy? Perhaps he was so miserable being rich that he welcomed death?
They rushed forward, and it was to her eternal surprise that two katana left the boy's sleeves.
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"In times of test, family is best." Burmese Proverb
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He ducked under a katana swing, fast reflexes coming into play.
'I'm out of practice,' Naruto noted when he felt his legs strain slightly. He'd have to actually start making use of Chisihio Bunshin that Kyuubi has mentioned to get uninterrupted workouts. It wouldn't do for the Hikage to become like Sandaime.
Naruto summoned his two chakra fangs, the katana leaving his sleeves and into his firm grip. Bringing his arms together, he slashed outwards with both weapons to slice the offending shinobi into three pieces.
Three shinobi rushed towards him from the left, right, and behind, their respective weapons drawn. As the first body continued its fall, intestines and other such vital organs falling out, Naruto spread his stance wider and brought his zanbatou to bear. Bring it swinging down in front of him, he flipped a switch and separated it into two blades of varying size. Hopping into the air, the blond parried the swings of the two shinobi coming in from the sides by twisting around and upside down, crossing the two blades protectively.
He tossed up the smaller blade, abandoning its chakra fang-like effect to flip the switch again to separate the larger sword into two smaller blades. The first, predictably, became weightless as he began running chakra through it, while the second began crackling with electricity. The small blade continued its upward spiral as Naruto blocked a second swing by bringing up the blade in his left hand and counterattacked with the blade in his right, cutting off the head of the shinobi.
As the body of the first fallen shinobi hit the floor and the head of the second began its descent, the remaining six shinobi regrouped around him, once again in a circle.
"Who... no, what are you?" the leader demanded, the sweat visible on his face.
Naruto remained silent, and instead slammed both blades into the ground, caught the first blade which was still falling, and slammed that into the ground too. He went through several hand seals, his expression serious.
'Kurodenkou no Jutsu.'
He held out his hands, two balls of black lightning forming around it and crackling fiercely. Naruto's face remained emotionless, save for the smirk that he reserved for people who were going to die within the hour.
"K-Kurodenkou no Uzumaki Naruto!" one shinobi yelled in a panic. It was the last word he'd speak.
Naruto raised his right hand, the black lightning firing off and blazing its way towards the one who'd spoken.
Said enemy tried to leap into the air, only to have the lightning redirect itself and vaporize him in midair. The remaining shinobi, shocked out of inactivity, began to move forward to assault the blond.
'Too slow.'
Shooting the remaining lightning from his hand straight into the air, Naruto then disappeared in the blink of an eye, his chakra fangs dancing gracefully. It cut through the air easily without loss of velocity, heading towards their targets with pinpoint accuracy. He wasn't named the Kurodenkou for being slow and blocky.
A scream of short-lived pain was silenced by a slice to the jugular and voice box.
Thud.
Two heads were sent flying into the trees, narrowly missing the hidden kunoichi.
Thud – Thud.
A torso became detached from the rest of its body, the expression of the shinobi wide with shock.
Thud.
Two arms suddenly fell off from the owner's shoulders, the shinobi realizing what had just happened moments afterwards.
Thud.
The leader was left remaining, the only other shinobi alive writhing on the floor in pain at the loss of both of his arms. Blood sprayed everywhere, from necks, vital organs, and flailing arteries, to bleeding stumps and headless necks. The remaining upright nukenin, began trembling slightly, but narrowed his gaze and kept his ground. How brave – Foolish, but brave.
At least, that was the thought running through his head at the time. That is, until the leader raised a hand and thirty more nukenin of various villages appeared around him.
Naruto uttered a single word, describing perfectly the situation.
"Bullshit."
They attacked, some going within melee range to perform Taijutsu and Kenjutsu, some staying back and throwing a covering fire of kunai and shuriken. Some began hand seals for Ninjutsu, whilst some just stood there looking smugly at him. Oh, he'd wipe those smug looks off their faces... permanently.
Naruto swung his body back, and using chakra to keep his feet planted to the floor, he avoided a slash aimed at the waist. His body continued down, making a right angle with his legs, avoiding a second slash by the same offender. The blond deftly swung both of his forgotten chakra fangs inwards, slicing both his opponent and his two katana. They weren't called chakra fangs because they bit down, that was for sure.
Expelling the chakra from his feet, he performed a back-flip, landing expertly on the ground and slashing the chest of yet another nukenin, the blood spurting out like a frenzied pump.
'Two down, twenty-nine more to go.'
He noted darkly that the kunoichi was watching, but making no move to assist him. He made a note to scare her after he was done, and badly. Really badly. Turning his attention back to his enemies, he spread his arms and legs and used his right leg to push off and begin spinning like a top.
'Kiroi Gufuu!'
Letting out chakra from his tenketsu (He did have as good a chakra control as a Hyuuga), the spin carried the chakra, and similar to the Hyuuga clan's Kaiten, began hitting anything within range of his chakra fang. The primary difference was that this was used to kill, while Kaiten was used to protect.
Five unfortunate nukenin that happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time fell to the ground in bloody pieces, appendages and the such separated from their bodies. Just as the spin died down, Naruto spied an incoming jutsu, specifically a Suiton: Suiryuudan no Jutsu. He cursed his bad luck – these guys were better than the ones he'd fought at the nukenin hideout. His hands blurred at the speed that his hand seals were being performed.
'Doton: Doryuuheki!'
Naruto spit out a great deal of mud, which immediately hardened, creating a stone barrier in front of him.
'Doton defeats Suiton,' he knew, and grinned smugly.
The water dragon slammed itself onto the barrier, but the blond's prediction came true as the earthen barrier withstood the beating and remained standing. It seemed as if he'd need to go all out, if this was any indication of the strength of the nukenin. Charging what chakra that he had that he hadn't used already into his hand, he grimaced.
'Can't I get a damned break? Seishin Utsu!'
His chakra-charged fist slammed it's way through two nukenin, but he wasn't done. Naruto kept going, fully intent on utilizing the jutsu to its maximum – by killing as many people with it in one go. Following this strategy, five more nukenin fell before the jutsu wore off, leaving the blond in yet another state of chakra exhaustion – minor again.
'Fourteen down, seventeen more to go,' the blond thought tiredly. 'Jeez, I'm starting to run low on chakra.'
Because of the number of nukenin he had cut down and the speed in which he had done it, the rest advanced cautiously at the slumped over Kage-level shinobi. The blond's hand twitched, then tightened itself into a fist. His head raised up and glared daggers at the nukenin.
'I have to finish this in the next move,' he decided. 'Now, what jutsu to use...'
"Kage Bunshin no Jutsu," he muttered under his breath after placing his hands in the cross seal. Three Kage Bunshin appeared next to him, each one smirking.
Each one rushed forward, whilst the real Naruto began going through yet another set of hand seals.
The timing had to be perfect.
A nukenin stabbed a Bunshin, but instead of disappearing in puff of smoke, it lived on, grinning all the while. The leader's eyes widened marginally. This was...
'Bunshin Daibakuha.'
With that thought, the three scattered Kage Bunshin exploded in a brilliant wave of orange and red, taking with them ten nukenin who had been too shocked by the outcome to move at all.
'Kurodenkou no Jutsu!'
Once again, black lightning shot from his palms, blasting through the large amount of smoke sent flying by the explosion and killing anyone within bouncing range of the jutsu. He heard several screams, but could see nothing. As the smoke cleared, he saw six dead nukenin, all having been hit by the bouncing strikes. This wasn't good, there was one more. Where was he?
Naruto's question was answered as the last remaining nukenin – the leader – fell down from the sky, his eyes gleaming with murderous intent and a katana swinging down towards the blond's head. There wasn't enough time to block, especially at his current level of exhaustion.
That was when the leader disintegrated with a bang, shocking the blond.
'What the... hell?'
'The black lightning that you shot earlier into the sky... gravity pulled it down before it exited the atmosphere' Kyuubi spoke.
'Is... that even possible? I mean, lightning goes at a high velocity, even more so when it's demonic. Also, there's the fact that it dissipates over time.'
'Don't argue with me, gaki' the kitsune growled menacingly. 'All I know is what happened. Don't bug me for the details.'
'You're useless, do you know that? USELESS!'
When Kyuubi did not respond, Naruto assumed that his argument had won, said argument being that Kyuubi was all talk and no work. It was true now, though years ago the kitsune could've contested that fact. The kitsune youkai had grown lazy as the blond's individual strength grew, preferring to watch from within the safety of the cage rather than intervene.
Lazy teme.
"You can come out now," Naruto called out to the hidden kunoichi, who happened to still be watching him.
He felt her stiffen, but made no move to reveal herself.
Troublesome woman.
He estimated that he had enough chakra to possibly go one-on-one with the already injured kunoichi should he need to. He was in better shape than his possible opponent after all.
Naruto gave her a few more minutes. If she didn't come out by then, well... god help her, he'd drag her out by force. Two minutes, then three, then five minutes passed, without any change in the situation. The kunoichi still had no intent of leaving the 'safety' of the tree, and was making no move to do anything other than observe him.
Annoying...
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"The family is one of nature's masterpieces." George Santayana
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He had called out to her, the child that had killed thirty-eight nukenin by himself. Well, he wasn't exactly a child. With a height of 5'5", he could probably be attributed to be a short adult, if not for the very young look of his face. Her own height was 5'9" at the age of nineteen, just four short inches taller than the blond – the blond that was currently looking at the tree that she was in.
She blinked, and he was gone. Her eyes widened, sensing him behind her. She attempted to slash at him with the kunai she was holding... attempted. He grabbed her wrist and held it back, his face scrunched up and looking at her in scrutiny.
"Hey," he began, "why are you so damn rude?"
"Huh?" was the only intelligible reply that left her mouth. How embarrassing.
"Let's try that again. I called nicely for you to come out of the tree. You didn't. I waited patiently for you to change your mind. You didn't. I then decided to come to you, and you greet me by trying to attack me. What kind of manners are those?"
The kunoichi's left eye twitched in annoyance.
'Who the hell is this guy that he starts lecturing me?'
"... And even more, I took out those nukenin for you, and I don't even get a simple 'thank you'!"
She bopped him on the head.
Whack.
"What the hell was that for!?" he cried out, clutching at the bump that was slowly swelling on his head. "Screw you, hoe! I, Uzumaki Naruto, will not stand for this kind of treatment!"
Her rapidly twitching eye stopped immediately as she stared at him. The emotions splayed across her face traveled quickly from surprise, to disbelief, and finally to laughter. She laughed loud and hard at Naruto, who stood there like a poor doll, unmoving and also confused.
"What's so damned funny?" he demanded, taking a step forward. "What the hell's so funny?"
The kunoichi managed to stop her laughter with quite a bit of effort, though she was left still panting from laughing so long.
"Heh, you... you said you were from the Uzumaki clan," she murmured, pointing at him.
"Uh no, I said that my name was Uzumaki Naruto," he clarified. "I never said anything about belonging to the clan."
"Three reasons why you can't be an Uzumaki," she said while holding up three fingers. "One: If you were an Uzumaki, you'd have used your kekke genkai in the fight, simply because it would've made it much easier. Two: Your fighting style doesn't reflect the Uzumaki Taijutsu. Three: There are no Uzumaki existing outside of Kumogakure."
"..."
"So, who are you really?" This was asked offhandedly, as she had regained her composure completely and was now leaning against the tree trunk.
"I already said that my name was Uzumaki Naruto," the blond shinobi grumbled under his breath, whirling away. "Damned Kakashi, sending me to Kumogakure to find lost family and all I get is some kunoichi who laughs at me."
"Wait... you know Hatake Kakashi?"
Naruto turned around, eyebrow raised.
"Of course I know the Hatake Kakashi, the Hatake Kakashi that has a Sharingan eye and is rumored to know over one-thousand jutsu," he drawled sarcastically. "You heard me the first-"
"Alright, alright!" she roared, interrupting him. "Jeez, I ask a question and you get all sarcastic on me."
"Maybe I shouldn't have helped you out," the blond mumbled under his breath, "but you don't see me complaining."
"How am I supposed to believe that you're an Uzumaki anyways?" she said, facing away from him towards the general direction of Kumogakure. "It's easy enough to fake being someone. A Henge is all it takes to get blond hair and blue eyes."
She heard Naruto cough, alongside the tinkling of metal objects.
Turning around to ask what was up, she froze at the sight of a Hiraishin kunai dangling off of the blond's index finger.
"Is this proof enough?"
"H-How did... where... who..."
"Speak in complete sentences please."
"Where the hell did you get those?" the blond kunoichi demanded. "Those are the Yondaime Hokage's special kunai!"
"Exactly."
"Huh?"
"They were the Yondaime's," Naruto pressed on. "Judging from your reaction, you seem to know Yondaime. Or rather, you know your uncle."
He shrugged in victory, smirking all the while.
"Yeah," he said in response to her shocked look, "I figured out that you're an Uzumaki. From your reaction, you knew that Yondaime was a relative of yours, and my having possession of one of your uncle's precious kunai blew your entire cover. Well, not entirely. I was already onto you when you started explaining why I couldn't be an Uzumaki."
"Then..."
"Yup. I'm Kazama Arashi's one-and-only son!" he exclaimed proudly, throwing out his chest. "Though I still have no idea who my mother was, or what she was like," he ended lamely.
"You could've stolen the kunai," the blonde muttered as she ran her hands through her hair. She was now trying to convince herself that the shinobi in front of her wasn't her long lost cousin. A long lost cousin that was six years her junior, yet was stronger than her. It... just wasn't fair! She had knowledge of the Uzumaki clan's kekke genkai that he didn't know. She had knowledge of their formidable Taijutsu style. She knew everything he didn't, and was even his senior, yet...
"Argh!" she yelled as she began pounding repeatedly on the tree trunk. A small crater began forming on the trunk, due to the force she was applying to slam the tree with her fists."
"Ah," Naruto sighed in contentment, "family, what a beautiful thing..."
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"Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family." Anthony Brandt
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I'm gonna use more and more teeny-tiny bits of Japanese vocabulary, the most basic and easily remembered ones. Oh, and if I got my facts wrong (Nature Manipulation), please tell me. It was all from memory and past research burned into my memory, so it might not be accurate. I also made Naruto more human-like by giving him a fiery temper.
I also added a Strength Level to the end. It will have in it any ninja mentioned in the chapter. Why did I place Sandaime so low? In canon, Orochimaru was only toying with Sandaime for the longest time, bathing in his victory and letting the battle drag on and on, which let Sandaime eventually perform Shiki Fuujin.
Strength Level
Kazama Arashi - 20
Uchiha Itachi, Jiraiya - 14
Hoshigaki Kisame - 13
Uzumaki Naruto - 12
Sandaime - 11
Deidara - 10
Tobi, Hatake Kakashi, Bakuhatsuteki Kasumi – 9
Sabaku no Gaara – 8.5
Hikaru, Mitarashi Anko - 8
Akane – 7.5
Uchiha Sasuke – 3.5
Haruno Sakura - 1.5
Vocabulary
Hatake Kakashi –Field Scarecrow
KazamaArashi - Storm
Mitarashi Anko - Mitarashi Red Bean Jam (Note, both Mitarashi and Anko are ingredients for dango, Anko's favorite food.)
Fuuin – Seal, the kind that are drawn onto a scroll.
Fuuin Jutsu – Sealing Techniques
Gaki – Brat
Jutsu-shiki – Technique Formula
Konoha no Fuuin Shishou – Konoha's Seal Master
Konoha no Kiroi Senkou – Konoha's Yellow Flash
Kuchiyose Fuuin – Summoning Seal
Sannin – Three Ninja
Sayonara – Goodbye
Sennin - Hermit
Tensai – Genius, prodigy
Jutsu List
Fuuin Jutsu
Kuchiyose Fuuin (Summoning Seal) – A-Rank – A seal that supposedly 'summons' the user whose chakra is infused within the seal, its actual purpose is to pull the user to it upon activation. The user is pulled to the location at nearly light speed, and is the same seal that is placed upon the handles of the Hiraishin kunai.
Ninjutsu
General
Bunshin Daibakuha (Clone Great Explosion) – A-Rank – A split-off with the original Kage Bunshin no Jutsu, the user places extra chakra into the Bunshin, chakra that they can activate and manipulate to explode at any chosen time. The more chakra placed into the Bunshin, the greater the resulting explosion is, because there is more fuel. This can be used strategically to take out many opponents during scouting, a normal Kage Bunshin method, or simply to kamikaze the enemy in mass numbers.
Hiraishin no Jutsu (Flying Thunder God Technique) – S-Rank – Yondaime's premier jutsu, it basically allows the user to 'teleport' to any given location. By placing jutsu-shiki – most commonly on the famed Hiraishin kunai – the user is sent to the location of the jutsu-shiki at nearly the speed of light. Because of the extreme speed in which the user moves, the side effect of the jutsu is the unmistakable flash of color that the enemy sees before falling prey to the user.
Kage Bunshin no Jutsu (Shadow Clone Technique) – B-Rank – Unlike the normal Bunshin no Jutsu, the Kage Bunshin no Jutsu creates real flesh-and-blood copies of the user. They can fight, experience emotions, and perform jutsu just like the user. When using jutsu though, they have to use the store of chakra that was placed in them during creation. The amount of chakra in Kage Bunshin can be altered. Any information and mental experience that the Kage Bunshin experiences is also passed on to the user when they are killed or dispelled, which makes it particularly useful for missions involving reconnaissance and stealth.
Kiroi Gufuu (Yellow Typhoon) – Unique, C-Rank – A Ninjutsu that doesn't require hand seals, which coincidentally seems to be Naruto's forte, this jutsu is basic. By expelling chakra from the tenketsu and spinning, similar to the Hyuuga clan's Kaiten, the user can deflect projectiles and certain Ninjutsu. By using one or more katana to go along with the chakra-charged spin, the spin itself becomes both offensive and defensive. The single flaw to this is that the user is vulnerable when the spin is slowing down and ending.
Shunshin no Jutsu (Body Flicker Technique) – D-Rank – This jutsu allows the user to move at high speeds, with an onlooker often mistaking it for teleportation. The user uses chakra to boost their speed and reflexes, the jutsu requiring more chakra as the distance that the user needs to travel increases. Any extra things, such as flying sand or leaves, serve as a distraction for the user's movement, and perhaps for a bit of style as well.
Rasengan (Spiraling Sphere) – A-Rank – The Rasengan is one of two widely known Ninjutsu that was created by the Yondaime Hokage himself. It requires no hand seals to perform, relying instead on the user's manipulation of released chakra, the result being that it cannot be copied by Doujutsu such as the Sharingan. Using such little chakra thanks to its compression of small amounts of chakra into a spinning orb of doom, the user can perform this infinitely more times than someone using the Chidori or Raikiri. When hit by the Rasengan, the intense spinning of the orb will oftentimes rearrange the inner organs of the target, or even blasting all the organs out of their body, resulting in death. This can be easily countered though by performing long-range combat, though said combat can be countered by using the Rasengan in conjunction with the Hiraishin no Jutsu..
Seishin Utsu (Spirit Strike) – A-Rank – A jutsu that is similar to the Rasengan in that it requires no hand seals, the user simply forces out a great amount of chakra out of their arm, from elbow to the tip of the finger. Unlike the Chidori or Raikiri, which forms a ball of lightning in the user's palm, the user manipulates the chakra outside of the body to sharpen, creating an 'aura' of destruction around the arm. Anything that comes into contact with the chakra will be cut, and being hit directly will result in death. It's flaws and counter-counters are the same as the Rasengan.
Earth
Doton: Doryuuheki (Earth Release: Earth Encampment Wall) – B-Rank – The user gathers up chakra in their gut, expelling the chakra and manipulating it into mud as soon as it enters the throat and leaves the mouth by using hand seals. Upon hitting solid floor, the mud hardens up to the point where it can easily withstand exploding tags and jutsu. The hardening of the mud is nearly instantaneous, thanks to the excess amount of chakra embedded into it. Entire walls can be created by this jutsu, to block anything from fireballs to tidal waves.
Fire
Katon: Goukakyuu no Jutsu (Fire Release: Grand Fireball Technique) – C-Rank – Similar to the Doryuuheki, the user releases pent-up chakra from their gut and manipulates the chakra into flames as the chakra enters the throat, thus breathing out fire. Depending on the force that the flames are expelled, the fireball will either stay put or begin moving on a path of destruction. The size of the fireball is relative to the amount of chakra used in the jutsu, and is one of Konohagakure's most basic Katon jutsu.
Lightning
Chidori (Thousand Birds) – A-Rank – Created by Hatake Kakashi at the age of thirteen, the Chidori is his sole original move. The user performs hand seals and channels chakra through their arm and into their hand, manipulating it into lightning. The strength of the jutsu depends on the speed of the thrust, thus it requires high speed movement. It's sole flaw is that it requires the user to run straight forward, which makes it easy for an enemy to counter it because of the reduced reaction speed caused by moving at such a high velocity. This is countered by both Kakashi and Uchiha Sasuke with the use of their Sharingan eyes.
Raiton: Kurodenkou no Jutsu (Lightning Release: Black Lightning Technique) – Unique, A-Rank – Like all of Naruto's Ninjutsu, this is yet another destructive jutsu. Splitting from his forte of non-hand-seal jutsu, this is similar in nature to the Chidori and Raikiri. By performing hand seals to channel the demon chakra through the arm and into the hand, the user has for themselves the basic jutsu. With the addition of more hand seals in the beginning, the user adds the ability to be able to shoot the lightning a certain distance. Because of the natural qualities of demonic chakra, the Kurodenkou travels farther and faster, losing less potency at farther distances. Also as a side effect of the chakra used, it homes in on its target.
Water
Suiton: Suiryuudan no Jutsu (Water Release: Water Dragon Blast) – B-Rank – Because of its extreme complexity, the user is required to perform fifty-four hand seals. Once done, a gigantic serpentine water dragon is formed from water – though some shinobi can use their own chakra to create water – to be launched at the enemy. Though slow moving and bulky, it is strong enough to wipe out most counter-jutsu and is enough to knock out an enemy with the mini tidal wave that it creates after missing. Should it not miss though, the enemy will either be incapacitated or have suffered critical internal injuries.