Ancient History 101

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"Talking"

"God Talking"

Demon talking

-People Chatting with Demons mentally and to Gods-

'Thoughts'

"Other Languages"

-X- Scene change and time change

YoY Different point of view

RnR Flash back

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Call of Home, part 3

Once he clothed himself once more, Hinata wakes up and stands up with some help from Lee. He studies the pair; he wants to head to the area's jutsu corner stone but he wants to go alone so that nobody other then himself knows the location of the corner stone that anchors the defences and the weather jutsu. In the end, he sighs and vows to visit it tonight at the latest as he motions for a blushing Hinata and an amused Lee to follow him. He launches himself into the air and transforms into a bird, Hinata and Lee following him through the air in their only flight beasts, snowy white owls.

It's not long for them to arrive ahead of the death march for the tundra hunters often carry the corpses, enemy or friend, back to the home caves to for honouring and burial, though the enemies are buried with slightly different things and away from the traditional burial ground of the clan. Clan mates are typically buried with statues of personal totems as well as a leather hide with the clan's primary icon on it, it's not unusual for flowers, tools, and weapons to be included by close friends and immediate family or close relatives.

For enemy burials, they are given herbs said to help spirits get 'high,' in face some enemies are literally covered in layers said herbs if they were highly aggressive in battle. To those enemies that fought honourably, they're buried with a kind of fermented juice cocktail in a bottled jar. Also it should be noted that the enemies are typically buried totally naked so that they didn't have anything to do but to 'eat' those herbs and if they're buried with that fermented juice, drink it.

He sighs; Hinata refuses to stare at him in the face, for it seems that she's clearly going to need time to recover from seeing him in his birthday suit. Lee's busy already informing those left behind about what happened in the battle. Many of the younger kids were gathered around Lee as Lee tells his tale while the adults continue to stare off in the direction the war party had marched.

About two hours after they arrived, the returning warriors finally appear with the leader of the chakra users at the lead. The co-leaders seem relieved on seeing the warriors return. The rest of the genin also arrive with the returning warriors, it seems that they're responsible for the enemies' clothing, weapons, and other knickknacks that the mercenaries had on them when they died. The dead were being carried on make shift wagons being pulled by volunteers, its not long before people are charging up the trail to greet their loved ones in a more personal manner.

Soon enough everyone's exchanging news and the genin weren't any different once Neji, Shikamaru, and Tenten put what they're carrying by the out door bonfire pit before exchanging news with Hinata and Lee. He turns away from the genin and study the bodies. The clan suffered about three dead and numerous minor injuries, most likely not healed by the healers among the war party because they were too exhausted to heal the minor injuries. He's counts about a hundred and eighteen soldiers dead, he wouldn't be surprised that the ferret brought three times that number here but between the hazards of hunting large animals, the largest killer of them was most definitely the cold weather since they couldn't be prepared for how cold the valley would be.

He has a slightly wistful smile on his face, being here and knowing that people were trying to take this from him really makes him want to say fuck Leaf and stay here, never going back to make sure Sasuke doesn't seek out Orochimaru or to be around when the organisation finds its impossible to extract the one tail, Skukaku from Gaara. Or just generally screwing with the council when they try to 'deal' with him, to try and kill him or even try and exile him. But as tempting as staying in Ice Valley was, he knows that he only has one chance to deal with those truly responsible for his isolation in Hidden Leaf and age old anger demands that they be made to suffer in a way that's not only highly amusing for him but highly humiliating to them.

Being in Hidden Leaf had opened old wounds and also age old memories of being tormented by those bold enough to do something physical to him, pretty much breaking that law out right, most likely justifying that as long as they left him alive they never broke that law. He closes his eyes and tries to fight down all of those childhood torments and the building anger and hatred. It takes a lot longer then before for him to regain control over his emotions but he does gain control over them.

He already knows that he'll be using Sasuke in his plans, he hadn't forgotten nor forgiven the village for spoiling that prick and it's likely that they're doing so right at this minute even though Sasuke doesn't have access to his bloodline limit. It'll take sometime before he'll set his plans for Sasuke in motion but he will enjoy the type of fruit those plans will bear. He glances over to the genin, he doesn't have anything against them and in time, he hopes to extent his group of, well, allies to include Shino and maybe the other team's jonin instructors so that he has other sources to help advice him in the kind of politics are going on within the council, it'll help to have the heirs to influential clans helping him delay whatever those bastards were planning, if only delaying their actions for a few days at the maximum to give him time to figure out how he'd deal with whatever it was they were planning.

He sighs as he looks away from the genin, he's calls them his friends but he's not sure if he believes that he's capable of treating them as such since he's always in some kind of social isolation when he's dealing with any kinds of humans, be they tundra hunts or the breed he's descended from. Once upon a time, he wouldn't be thinking such thoughts but then, that naïve twelve year old as grown into a highly powerful and bitter individual even if he acts other wise. 'I should have tried an acting career instead of being a ninja. I would have made huge amounts of money without having to risk my life. I've been acting since I was forced out of the orphanage, my acting was so good that I even fooled myself after a while.' He muses to himself.

'I'm going to walk through Hidden Leaf and if anyone so much as dares to call me a monster to my face…' He thinks once he considers his actions towards the villagers, he had been hiding himself away from them because …. He didn't want to get people complaining to the Third, he didn't want to make things harder for the old man but now that the old man was gone… He nods to himself at his reasons for not stirring up trouble with ninjas and villagers alike when he first arrived at Hidden Leaf to take over from himself.

He stares up into the sky before heading off to release some pent up energy. He just hopes that nobody will decide to talk with him at this moment. He really not in the mood to keep an edge out of his tone and words as he transforms into a tundra lion, stalking off to find something to track, stalk, kill, and eat in a highly bloody manner.

YoY Hinata

She had noticed the emotions that played on Naruto's face even if nobody else did. It surprised her at how much anger Naruto has buried within him and she doesn't know what to do about it. She always knew that Naruto was hurting inside and it seems that that anger had only grown over the millions of years; it most likely didn't help that her crush couldn't lash out at those that tormented him through his life in the village, let alone someone to help divert Naruto's focus of how he was treated.

"I wonder what brought that on." Neji wonders softly behind her. She jumps and turns to face her cousin. "I think he might be thinking of how he was treated in the village." She stutters out and Neji frowns at that. "I still don't see why he returned to the village, not with how he's treated in these lands." Her cousin admits after a few seconds. "I think he's only got once chance to get revenge on those that tormented him and that's what really keeps him in the village." She says softly and Neji nods thoughtfully.

"I wonder what parts we play in his schemes." Neji muses and she jerks slightly at that. Before she can reply, her cousin was already walking away. She stares off to where her cousin was going before noticing that Naruto's gone. She follows her cousin within a few seconds; her thoughts are troubled by what Neji had said.

-X-

The return to the village had been pretty eventful seeing how once they got within sight of the gate, the ANBU surrounded them and then proceeded to try and kill Naruto as well as cut them off from the blond. Naruto didn't react as kunai head towards him and when they're about two feet from Naruto, they hit some kind of shield and Naruto just walks on, as if he didn't see them. Everyone kind of stopped and then watch as an ANBU tries to use a jutsu to get at Naruto, the attack didn't even penetrate the shield at all and Naruto didn't even look strain, but then, Naruto's whole body was bathed in chakra all the time that she doubts that Naruto needs to consciously focus on keeping that shield where it was.

It also happened when the same ANBU tried to bring their sword into play. She's not sure what happened only that suddenly there was only a blood stain where the ANBU had been, the segmented body parts fall as does the sliced clothing. "I'm tired, hungry, and I want a warm bath. But I should expected this kind of a homecoming from this honourless village which houses and breeds cowardly and easily frightened scum that can't possibly respect the wishes of their late leaders. I, at least, was in the company of hearty and worthwhile ninja that seem to be unusual examples what's typically bred in such an honourless and a worthless village." Naruto says, she swells in pride at the compliment that Naruto had given them even if at the same time, he's insulting their parents and therefore, their respective clans. Akamaru barks in agreement with what Naruto said, it seems that the white pup didn't like what just happened just a few seconds ago.

The insult raises the ANBU's hackles but one look at the bloody pool and sliced and dice body clearly warns against acting against Naruto right then and there. Naruto seeing that they weren't going to react to his insults continues on his way, it's clear that Naruto's not just drained physically but also mentally from performing that teleportation jutsu and most definitely just wants to be left alone until he's taken care of his personal needs. She checks with the others and find they were also scowling at the supposed elite ninja, most likely offended on Naruto's behalf if she reads their reactions despite the face that Naruto had just killed an ANBU within a tenth of a second.

It's not long before they leave, heading off to their respective houses to get clean cloths and to bathe in warm water instead of the ice cold water they've been bathing in for the last few days. Akamaru heads off with Tenten, most likely knowing that her clan won't allow the pup to enter the compound without Kiba around to be insulted on the pup's behalf. While it's certain that her clan will want to hear everything that Neji and herself had to say about where they've been, they already promised not to and Naruto also did something to Neji's cage bird seal so that as long as the elder council are questioning Neji in activating that seal, her cousin won't be affected by the seal at all, making him immune to that side effect that the main family has been taking advantage of for generation.

While Neji still hates the main branch of their clan, in some ways, Neji and her had manage to make peace between them. It most likely help that they did fight side by side together once more in helping the Magthissu defend their hunting lands. It really drew the group together over all as it also gave them a chance to see Naruto in a different light as well. She could only wonder at what kind of changes are going to come about now that they returned from Ice Valley, from a place where Naruto could easily be proclaimed a god.

YoY Naruto

He flops onto the bed, lying on his chest and stomach with his head resting on the pillow. His mind drifts through the encounter with the ANBU and his killing of that bird masked ANBU just by using his wind manipulation since his chakra was that of the element of wind. A slightly bitter smile graces his face, he chisels himself over playing his hand like that but he was exhausted from the teleportation jutsu and the night events when he bounded what's left of the fox's chakra into the valley's defences, he also witnessed how the valley's improved defences push out the probes from Grama, Hergis, and Juviro.

He chuckles as he remembers how the Kyuubi fell right into his trap. 'As if some uppity demon could ever escape from my gasp so easily.' He tells himself.

RnR

He checked the clan cave and finds most of the residents sleeping, he nods to himself and he transforms from a lion into an extinct night bird that existed once, long ago. He runs slightly with his wings flapping, it's not long before he flaps into the air. He continues to flap his wings, not wanting to waste chakra in aiding him flying this night, not when he'll need it for what he's about to do tonight and for the teleportation jutsu tomorrow morning.

His eyes spot the floating bit of land where the corner stone for the area is located. He congratulated himself for his forethought on keeping anyone from gaining access to the chakra network of the whole valley. He hadn't known if he could cause a bit of land float in the air, it had been a challenge to what he learnt over the millions of years. The floating flat of land needed to be protected from storms and from sight. He had charged a ring of those chakra storing stones to repel the small ring of stones located on the bottom of the flat of land and vie versa, that's the secret of how he's been keeping the flat of land in the air.

He lands at the entrance of the artificial cavern. He transforms quickly back into his birth form and enters into the cavern before he feels the chilly wind blow again. He touches a small chakra stone lodged in the wall, the larger stones lodged in the ceiling brightens the cavern before him. He walks down the mini spiral to the protected part of the floating land. The room is filled with various chakra stones of different sizes with a tall tower like chakra stone standing in the center of the room with the tip touching the ceiling.

He knows that such stones would fetch him a very generous fortune if the ninja nations knew of such stones. He frowns slightly, already knowing that he'll do everything in his power to keep these stones out of their hands, knowing that they would only start series of senseless wars on that continent that would kill tons of innocent people not even connected to ninja and their dealings. While he already knows that Orochimaru wants the nations to be in a constant state of war, another reason why he'll most likely have to deal with the snake summoner with the main reason to deal with Orochimaru is because of the man's research into immorality.

'It's bad enough that there are evil and insane gods, so we don't need to add an insane immorality crazed ninja to the list.' He tells himself as he touches the center stone fondly. The chakra stored within causes the stone to hum under his hand.

He sighs and takes out a scroll containing what he needs to set up his trap. He uses black sand instead of ink to draw the lines, he made sure to seem careless when he felt the fox sends out probes to see what he's up to. He felt such probing during his fight with Askari but since he was busy dealing with Askari, he never tried to do anything to the fox since all of his energy and focus was centered around his fight with Askari and it seems that his being inattentive during that fight caused the Kyuubi to grow confident about his probing.

He made the right error by the center stone, knowing that the fox will force his way through that section of the diagram. He feels the fox feel existed on seeing that error, he keeps the knowledge of just what that stone was far from his thoughts since he didn't want the fox to think he's aware of the probes or the fox would become guarded and highly suspicious, most definitely become difficult to deal with.

It takes much of his self control to keep from grinning…

RnR

The blond's exhaustion finally hits him before he can finish the memory and he's soon in a dreamless sleep, clutching the pillow as well.