Hey, guys! I'm back! I'm sorry about the long break. I had too much shifts at my job and hadn't much time to write.
Now, the three girls shown on the previous chapter are Shion, Miroku (her mother), and Koyuki.
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or Bleach.
Chapter 11: The Past is revealed
"YOU HAVE KIDS! WITH ALL OF THESE WOMEN, NO LESS," Kushina shouted to her son, who was nervously fidgeting.
After she regained consciousness, she dragged Minato and Naruto to a room, activated the silencing seals, and began the onslaught.
Naruto finally mustered the courage and said, "Yes. I have children, Kaa-san. I know that you're worried that I had kids at my age. But these women, I love them deeply and they me. I won't give them up even if you don't approve of them."
Though they don't show it, Minato and Kushina are hurt by Naruto's declaration. He's only 16 years old and he already thinks too deep about love. He even has kids with them! True, they courted each other at his age, they didn't think of marriage or kids until their mid-30s. But who can they blame? Naruto hasn't felt any love during his stay in Konoha, save for a few from a handful. His mind has already been…'designed' to seek and keep love.
Kushina said, "Naruto…it's…just…"
Naruto stopped her. "Look, Kaa-san. We are together and it's staying that way. Can't you accept it and move on?"
Minato decided to change topics and grinned. "So, Naruto, I recognize that black-haired woman in that one picture. That's Kazehana Koyuki, Kazehana Sotetsu-san's daughter. And the other two women in that other picture are the priestesses of Oni no Kuni. That's Miroku-san and her daughter Shion. You are quite the lucky boy to gain their feelings."
Naruto and Kushina stared at him before the former grinned back. "Yeah, well, I didn't even know that they had feelings for me until they told me. I was quite naïve back then."
Minato said, "Speaking of 'back then', do you think you could tell us what happened when you were banished?"
Kushina added, "Add what happened between then and now. I want to know everything."
Naruto nodded. "Okay. I have a feeling that everyone else back there would know. So, I'll show everyone."
They nodded and walked out the room.
Obito grinned at Naruto. "So, you have kids, eh? You're quite lucky to have that many women."
Rin bashed him on the head. "That's enough, Obito. Let him talk."
Naruto said, "Alright. Since Tou-san and Kaa-san requested it, I'll be going to show you guys how I got here." He turned to the captains and lieutenants. "I'm not sure if you guys want to join but you're free to do so. That is, of course, if they don't interfere with your captain and lieutenant duties."
Minato smiled and added, "If you desire to stay, I could have a clone ready to perform your duties in your stead."
Yamamoto nodded and left the residence with his lieutenant, thanking them for the offer.
Soifon stayed but declined the clone offer, giving all duties to her fat lieutenant, despite his protests. Ha, that would be perfect punishment for not even attempting to attack the Uzumaki.
Gin stayed, as he is under the guard of Hizashi and Dan. Izuru felt that he was unworthy of such an honor of having the head of the Royal Guard summoning clones to do his work and left for his division.
Unohana smiled and accepted the offer and stayed with her lieutenant, watching a pair of Minato clones vanish to their squad barracks.
Momo was still heartbroken by her captain's betrayal and remained in her room at the barracks and let the third seat do the paperwork. Desiring to help, Minato made two clones anyway to her barracks.
Byakuya politely declined and allowed Renji to stay. He said that Renji needs the break and that the clan and squad need his attention. He also said that he would return when everything is in order.
Komamura and Tetsuzaemon graciously accepted, thanking Minato for the offer.
Kyoraku immediately accepted, much to his lieutenant's ire.
Shuhei accepted the clone offer but respectfully declined the stay. He feels that he should pull his weight alongside the Royal Guard, clone or not.
Toshiro was about to refuse but the thought of leaving his lieutenant here with Ichimaru, of all people, stopped him. He still doesn't trust him enough to be in the same room as his lieutenant, lazy as she is. He accepted the offer and watched as two Minato clones left the room, ignoring Rangiku's death hug on his back.
Kenpachi shrugged and accepted. He has nothing better to do, anyway (except for fight, but, according to house rules made by Kushina, no serious fighting, save for spars – which are held in a special training ground - within the confines of the house). His child lieutenant also stayed before she left to get the third and fourth seat, leaving the rest of the squad work to the two clones.
Mayuri gave a creepy grin as he sat down with his lieutenant beside him. That showed his decision. Without even sensing it, everyone could see that Mayuri was interested in the Elemental Countries, past or not.
Jushiro gave a small smile and was about to refuse when his two uber-eccentric third seats insisted that he stay while they did the paperwork. With a sigh, he accepted the offer.
Naruto grinned. "Alrighty then, hold on to something!" He made fast-paced handseals and slammed his hands on the ground, saying, "Kokoro Kusari (Mind Chain)." The ground where Naruto slammed suddenly had writings and dashed off to everyone present, forming circles around them. A blue glow came from Naruto's forehead and formed chains that seemed to pierce everyone else's, save for Ichigo, who merely closed his eyes.
Naruto's mindscape
Everyone opened their eyes and feasted their sights on a damp sewer. It seems that they ended up in front of a large, open gate.
Obito whistled. "Whoa, where are we? This is a dump!"
Ichigo's voice rang out, "I'd rather you not insult Naruto's subconscious, Obito-san." Obito looked sheepish at that.
Minato and Hashirama had narrowed eyes at the open gate and the former asked, "What's that gate for?"
In response, a red glow appeared within the open bars in the form of rising stairs. Suddenly, a large amount of killing intent met their path, save for Ichigo.
Everyone's eyes widened as they went to their stance.
Sarutobi managed to gasp out. "That's the seal of the Kyuubi! Why is it released?"
The KI receded and a deep voice replied, "Naruto did it, monkey. He released me of his free will."
The red glow abated and everyone gazed upon the sight of a bipedal Kyuubi sitting upon a throne on the top of the stairs. Despite Kyuubi's small size, the red fur, the red, slit eyes, the sharpened canines, and the nine flowing tails gave off an intimidating glow.
Minato frowned. "If you are released, then why are you still here? I thought that you would jump at the first chance of freedom."
Although brief, a small look of something they couldn't decipher passed through Kyuubi's eyes as they went to Minato.
Naruto suddenly appeared between Kyuubi and the group.
With narrowed eyes, Hashirama asked, "Child, what made you release the Kyuubi?"
Naruto didn't reply but instead fixed his gaze upon Kyuubi, who did the same.
Kyuubi stood from the throne, jumped high, was covered by flame in midair, and landed in front of Naruto in a new form.
Everyone, save for Ichigo, had looks of outrageous shock upon the sight of Kyuubi transforming into a very beautiful woman.
She was a few inches above Naruto, had red eyes without slit pupils, fox-like ears, three whisker marks on each cheek, and long red hair that reaches her bottom and is tied to form nine ponytails behind her head. Her outfit consisted of a dark red yukata adorned with a nine-tailed fox on the back with the tails circling to the front, going to various spots. Two embraced the torso, two on the thighs, two on the shins, one circling each breast, and the last was wrapped around the neck.
Kyuubi caressed Naruto's cheek gently and leaned forward. With a smile, she said, "Welcome back."
Naruto smiled back and kissed her passionately on the lips, again to all but Ichigo's shock.
The shock was too much and the weaker of acceptance fainted while the remaining stood silent in shock.
Ichigo gave a loud laugh. "You really got them, Naruto!"
The lovers separated lips and Naruto embraced Kyuubi and turned to Ichigo. "Ah, well, more hell will come after this."
True enough, his head rang in pain from the shouts that graced his ears.
Kyuubi had enough and released the full brunt of her power, silencing them all. "I've had enough of this nonsense. Why do you reject my presence in his life when you so easily accept his number of other lovers?"
Kushina gave a deep frown. "His other lovers didn't try to kill other people for caging them. You may have proven yourself to Naruto but that doesn't mean that we trust you."
Kyuubi scoffed. "I have no need for other's trust; only Naruto's will I respect. Even if you don't accept, none shall change my decision."
They knew that they were beat. They could sense sincerity in Kyuubi's voice. Besides, they couldn't do anything to the strongest of the Bijuu.
Kyuubi said, "Good. Now, just shut up!" They did so.
Naruto smiled at her and nuzzled her neck, much to Kushina's ire. "Thank you, koi." He turned back to his audience and said, "Well, anyway, let's start the show!"
Sarutobi suddenly requested, "Naruto-kun, could you start at the point when I died?"
Naruto nodded and the surrounding sewer was replaced by a large village with a mountain filled with four large faces.
Orihime gushed about the village. "Wow, this place is so big! I wonder how anyone could find their way out in this large place! Oh, I wonder if there's a cooking store in here…"
As she finally quieted down, everyone watched as younger Naruto walked dejectedly along a street, ignoring the glares and pitying looks. They watched as Jiraiya took Naruto on a mission to get Tsunade back to Konoha and become Hokage. They saw Jiraiya 'teach' the Rasengan to Naruto, with quotation marks. That is because he didn't even properly teach Naruto in the same manner Minato taught his students, his teacher, and his wife.
Minato gripped his fists as he watched Jiraiya up and leave Naruto just like that. He could have at least made a Kage Bunshin to help him learn! He's going senile!
Now, they got to the part where they met Itachi, where Mikoto began tearing up. Afterwards, they saw the duo meet up with Tsunade and Shizune. Then, the Kages glared at nothing in particular when Tsunade insulted the Hokage position.
It was an unwritten rule of the Kage. It's perfectly allowed to insult a particular Kage, as long as within reason and with proven evidence. However, what Tsunade did was nothing short of foolish and trash. She insulted all four Hokage, for merely fighting for their ideals. That is another unwritten rule. Whoever insults all Kage of a particular village insults the Kage system. So, by extension, the Kazekage, the Raikage, the Mizukage, and the Tsuchikage are also insulted.
They were grateful for Naruto to defend their pride and quite disgusted by how Tsunade treated him. She also insulted the potential of a powerful ninja. That adds a third count to the list of transgressions.
They watched as the three Sannin reunited and fought. Dan and Nawaki sighed sadly at Tsunade's hemophobia. Everyone was impressed by Naruto's show of guts even with his injuries just to protect someone who insulted those he cared for. Minato, Kushina, Sarutobi, Obito, and Rin are particularly surprised when Naruto summoned a Kage Bunshin to create a perfect Rasengan and slam it into Kabuto's gut.
Even without guidance, he managed to make a perfect Rasengan by creating a clone…under a week!
Then, they continued all the way after Tsunade's inauguration. Now, they find themselves in a temporary state of peace.
Naruto grumbled as he lied on the Fourth's head. "Kakashi-sensei's in bed, Ero-sennin's peeking at more girls, no one's allowed to see Sasuke-teme, and Sakura-chan is with Ino…argh, I want to do something!" Then his eyes caught a brown person higher on the mountaintop above the Hokage heads. Nothing to do, he decided to investigate.
It was a brunette girl who was painting a perfect replica of Konoha…except for the darkened skies in contrast to the clear blue skies of the real.
Naruto blinked confusingly at her before she said, "You do know that it is rude to look over another's shoulder?"
Naruto gulped and said, "Sorry about that. I just couldn't help myself. I'm Naruto, by the way."
"Yes. I know. I've heard of your exploits in this village. I'm Yakumo."
"So, what's with the black skies in your painting? It's supposed to be blue."
She suddenly stopped painting and said, "In the forest behind me, be wary of traps, search for a sole house within, and enter in a small hole in the hollow of tree trunk exactly 7 meters southwest of the house." With that, she stood up, took her stuff in her bag and went off. Naruto followed her and was shocked to see an ANBU and two doctors incapacitate her and carry her away.
Deciding to find out what's going on, he followed her instructions and be wary of the traps that lay around the perimeter, namely numerous trip wires with bells on them. Finding the house, he ventured south and counted 7 meters and found a tree with a tall bushel on one side. Pushing it away, he saw a human-sized hole within and he entered it.
He found a small tunnel and crawled through it and he ended up in the middle of a master's bedroom. Leaving it, he wandered around and entered a room where he found a sleeping Yakumo. Suddenly, her eyes snapped open and Naruto found himself in a supernatural room, paintings floating around, the surroundings shifting colors.
One particular caught his attention. It was of the Kyuubi destroying Konoha with an emotionless Yakumo gazing down at the destruction.
He heard a voice. "Finally, you arrived."
He turned around and saw a demonic Yakumo with two horns on either side of her face. "Who are you?"
"I am the emotions buried deep within. I am the urges kept chained. I am the pain piled and piled. I am Ido, the instinct within hearts. And you, Uzumaki Naruto, are going to help me with our revenge."
Naruto backed up a bit. "What revenge?"
"Oh, didn't you know? My vessel, Kurama Yakumo, is hated, like you. She is the special born of the clan, the one born with the ability to turn illusions into reality. The Sandaime Hokage and Yuuhi Kurenai deemed her a danger and sealed her powers off. But, those two fools failed to notice that, as her anger grew, I came into her soul and took control of her body. She can perceive everything I perceive, but she has no control over her body. Do you want to see where I keep her? She's over there." Ido pointed behind Naruto. He turned and saw an unconscious Yakumo with black bindings all over her body. "See? She's just staying there, like a good little girl. Now, all is left is for me to control you and Konoha will be destroyed."
Suddenly, Naruto felt control leave his body and he said, "You underestimate my power, Ido. None can control the Kyuubi. All who attempt to do so will face death, under demonic curse."
"And yet you are controlled by Uchiha Madara, Senji Hashirama, Uzumaki Mito, Namikaze Minato, and Uzumaki Kushina." The next thing Ido knew, she was on an illusionary wall, held at the throat by Kyuubi.
"Do not test my patience, child! I have more power in my pinkie that you have in your entire body, even if you multiplied a million-fold! Are you behind? All have died! Their curse has been fulfilled. If you threaten me once more, the same shall befall on you."
Ido pushed Kyuubi away and summoned an illusion of spears that rained down on the Kyuubi-controlled Naruto. In response, K-Naruto merely waved his hand and the spears were blown away. Following through, Ido summoned a dozen wolves to attack K-Naruto, who blurred left and right and defeated them all.
Ido gritted her teeth and whipped her arm in an arc, summoning a wind blade. K-Naruto grabbed the blade and threw it back at Ido. She was powerless and was pushed away. She was about to stand when K-Naruto appeared in front of her and put his foot on her chest. "I told you once, I'll tell you again. Your illusions are nothing against me."
Ido glared at K-Naruto before she asked, "What now, huh? What will you do to me?"
"Your pathetic existence sickens me too much that I desire nothing from you. However, your pathetic parasitism disgusts me more. If your vessel dies, you die with her. Have you given up on living that you allow something as meagre as sealing stop you?"
"Don't misunderstand, Kyuubi. Yakumo hasn't proven herself to me. She still needs to be worthy of training under me. I sense great fear in her, Kyuubi. She has hate. She has anger. But she doesn't use it."
"Ah, but without a catalyst, she cannot even hope to rise above the ranks of illusionists and ninjas."
"And you want me to grant her a chance? She is weak, Kyuubi. Look at her! Her bones and muscles are fragile. Her chakra coils are small."
Kyuubi raised a brow. "It can be improved. Or should you be reminded of your life before you became one of the higher demons?"
Ido stiffened and gave a sigh. "Fine, fine, I'll train the girl. But, I expect your vessel to bond with mine! I can mould her ninja capabilities but your vessel will mould her character!"
"It will be granted."
A few seconds later, Naruto slowly opened his eyes and stared into a pair of light brown eyes. The eyes widened in shock before his ears rang from a loud shout.
He began dodging various apparatus that Yakumo summoned from her sketchpad.
Once she was done, Naruto huffed. "Come on! It wasn't my fault!"
Yakumo glared at him. "I don't care! A boy shouldn't be so close to girl he just met!"
Thus, a friendship, and a possible infatuation on the part of the female, grew.
Now, the audience watched Naruto go through missions until the Sasuke retrieval mission. Mikoto bit her lip again, as she watched Naruto fight the Sound Five and finally meet with Sasuke. They were shocked at Sasuke's amber eyes surrounded by a black sclera, thinking it was a Hollow. Then, they saw the fight between the two ninjas.
Everyone actually gaped when Sasuke plunged a fist into Naruto's lung before pulling it out so heartlessly.
The Royal Guard looked shocked. Ichigo's friends looked sick that a boy 5 years their junior could do such a thing.
Uryu, in particular, looked at Sasuke, in deep thought. That could have been me! We have our loved ones taken from us and have lived a life of hatred. And yet, I grew out of it while he…he never let go of his vengeance. Could I have done the same if I was left free to do as I please?
Soifon, cold as she may be, couldn't help the flinch the graced her face. Even she wasn't forced to do something like that until she was inaugurated into the higher seats of the Second Squad, and by then, she was already considered a full adult.
Gin's grin faltered a bit. This is the worst a snake can do to someone. Poison them into insanity. I wonder why I am disturbed. Perhaps it's because I haven't done something like that to this extent?
Unohana and Isane were wide-eyed. So young and they already severely wound so easily?
Renji and Rukia were silent in shock and horror, watching Naruto's blood fall to the waters.
Komamura, Tetsuzaemon, Shunsui, and Nanao had surprised eyes, gazing as Sasuke gave a monologue about no longer being able to breathe or use a jutsu.
Toshiro glared at Sasuke. I'm the youngest captain and even I don't heartlessly stab someone in the chest and coldly speak about it. Beside him, Rangiku gave a nervous gulp.
Kenpachi recovered quickly and gave a scoff. "That's a shitload of a fight. He ended it too quickly and didn't give off too much fun." Mikoto glared at him, making him slightly cringe.
Mayuri also recovered and grinned widely. "What an interesting child, he is. He seems to show some sort of semblance of a Hollow. I would like to dissect him to see what causes that transformation." The whole room was blanketed with a heavy reiatsu, the source of which was Mikoto.
She whispered, "Speak of dissecting my son ever again and not even the sotaicho can save you, Kurotsuchi."
Aforementioned Kurotsuchi flinched. He may be insane but he is no fool. Even with Bankai, he is no match for the Uchiha woman, especially one who is angered. He nodded begrudgingly. The pressure abated and the show continued.
They watched Naruto go into a one-tailed state and dominate Sasuke until his skin darkened, his hair whitened, a white cross appeared on the bridge of his nose, his sclera blackened, and his chakra turned foul.
All save for Naruto, Ichigo, and Kyuubi went quiet in shock. It's as if he is a Hollow in human skin! This is unreal! Their reiatsu is nearing lieutenant level.
Sasuke gave a dark chuckle. "You are quite special, Naruto. But as it turns out…I'm more special than you."
Naruto glared at him with his red eyes. "Just because of this, you think you're special?" He charged at Sasuke, his clawed hand creating a fissure in the ground.
Sasuke's eyes flashed before Naruto crashed against Sasuke.
Naruto's eyes widened when he found a large hand-like object between his hand and Sasuke. The hand pushed away, sending Naruto to the feet of the statue of Hashirama.
Sasuke looked at his hand-like wing before he groaned and keeled over, summoning another wing on his other side. As he recovered, he looked up and said, "Do you know where we are, Naruto?" Said blond narrowed his eyes. "This is the Valley of the End, the place where the Shodai Hokage and his rival fought and levelled the whole landscape. It's a perfect place for our fight, don't you think?" Sasuke stared back at Naruto. "Oh, yeah, I forgot. This isn't the time for speaking. We let our fists do the talking."
Naruto was about to attack when he flinched and looked at his left hand. I can't feel my arm.
Sasuke noticed and said, "This power of yours…it seems it carries a risk." He formed handseals for Chidori and lowered his hand, where it was covered by lightning that slowly blackened, corrupted by the Cursed Seal.
Naruto growled and held out his right hand, where a purple Rasengan formed, influenced by the power of the Kyuubi. He felt something within him. It called for him to kill the child before him. And Naruto knew that it wasn't because of Sasuke. It was because of whatever Sasuke has become.
Both jumped towards each other, reaching forward with their attacks.
They connected and they shouted their respective attacks, "RASENGAN," "CHIDORI!"
The corruption of darkness and hatred refused to damage each other and a large explosion occurred. Naruto's eyes flashed stronger and he pushed forward, grabbing Sasuke's face and ignoring the sharp pain on his chest. In a great show of strength and endurance, Naruto gave a yell and pushed Sasuke back to the feet of Madara. Naruto landed in front of the rubble and slammed both hands into it, pulling Sasuke out and throwing him to the other side. Ignoring the blood that fell from his chest, he sent a chakra arm towards Sasuke's landing site, grabbed Sasuke, and dragged him around the mountain until he dropped Sasuke in front of him. Energy spent, he saw Sasuke's broken body recede its transformation and fell beside him, his chakra cloak healing the hole in his chest before it also receded.
Everyone was silent as Kakashi carried Sasuke and Naruto back to Konoha.
Unohana asked, "How deep was the wound that Uchiha-san gave you, Naruto-san?"
Naruto shrugged. "Probably pierced through the rib but not really hit the heart. I was quite lucky. Kyuubi healed the deep wound before I nearly died."
"I see."
A depressing aura covered the room as Mikoto sulked for seeing her two sons being reduced to possible murderers.
Hitomi and Kushina comforted her as Kakashi finally reached Konoha gates.
I know that the Cursed Seal is from Juugo. But I couldn't help comparing the Cursed Seal transformation with a Hollow. Both had black sclera, amber eyes, and darkened skin. The only thing that is missing is the mask, which is the sign of a full transformation into Hollow.
That's done. The Yakumo arc is still going within the timeskip but I wanted both Naruto and Yakumo to meet early.
I don't know if they are in character but I tried my best.
The next chapter would be the banishment and the travel to Uzushio.
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