-Tanzaku Gai-
Sasuke was permitted to leave for the little town early, but with the restriction of Anbu guards until they arrived. 'That idiot is planning something. I just know it, but why did he not kill me when we fought at the Valley of the End? Whatever the sooner I get left at the town, the sooner I can leave for Orochimaru's shit hole.' These were most of Sasuke's thoughts on the matter at hand.
After the Anbu left, Sasuke went to leave for Orochimaru only to sense that the Anbu made a perimeter. 'Shit! I guess Tsunade is smarter then I gave her credit for. Whatever might as well find an inn to stay at.'
-Kami's Palace-
Naruto woke up from his tenth nap since his conversation with his mother. Naruto realized he was being ridiculous about it and forgave her somewhat. After that Kami pretty much confined him to a sleeping quarters. Inari fought it, but gave up on the grounds that it was his territory. Shin, the god of Death, tried to reason with him only to get rejected. So Naruto lay there on his bed doing nothing, until he noticed he had to met Sasuke.
"Hey, god of the brats! I need to talk to you!" A peal of thunder let loose before Kami walked into the room.
"Stop calling me that."
"Stop being a baby and let me go."
"No!"
"I have an engagement to attend to. In like an hour, so get off your high horse and release me and my weapons."
"Your powerless to stop me. Considering you couldn't even beat Ryuu."
"If I do will you release me?"
"Sure why not. Though if you lose you'll remain here forever."
"Deal." Naruto got up and waited at the door. Kami chuckled and undid the seals and replaced Naruto's gear.
"Follow me then. Ryuu to the Training Ground!"
"After you." Kami grumbled and led the way to the Training Ground. After what seemed like an eternity, they arrived at the Training Ground.
"This Training Ground is nigh indestructible."
"Why not completely?"
"Where's the fun in that?"
"Point taken." Naruto walked onto the Training Ground and walked to the center. After arriving he found Ryuu and Kushina waiting for him in the center. Naruto acknowledged his mother and glared at Ryuu. "So explain how this will work."
Ryuu grumbled a few curses, "Time isn't effected here. So we could fight for days and you would still make your appointment. That is if you can beat me in combat. This room is hard to destroy so any powerful techniques are welcomed. Also the winner is determined by death, knock-out, or giving up."
"Perfect and why are you here?" Naruto looked at Kushina questioningly.
"I'm the referee. If either of you are unsure if your opponent is dead or unconscious, I'll confirm it. Just shout ref and I'll appear."
"Simple enough. Let's get started then." Naruto stepped back a bit and grabbed Wolf Fang's hilt. Ryuu unsheathed his sword and stepped back as well.
Kushina looked at both and made sure both were ready, "Hajime!" Kushina disappeared and Naruto focused on Ryuu. Unfortunately Ryuu had disappeared, only to try and attack from Naruto's back. Naruto blocked with a kunai knife at the last second. Ryuu snarled and disappeared in a burst of speed and Naruto blocked every attack. This went on for awhile before Ryuu let off and disappeared into the jungle behind Naruto.
"Of course he would do a hit and run. Cowardly Dragon!" Naruto pocketed the kunai before following his scent. Good thing Naruto was forced into this form. His senses were increased fivefold then they were in his normal form, which was pretty high even as a human. After a few minutes of scent following, Naruto had to drop to the ground when a barrage of dragon scales tried to cut him into mince meat.
"Nice reflexes demon-brat! Though can you dodge it all?!" Naruto then looked around to find he was surrounded from all sides. Ryuu let loose the scale barrage in a massive pincer formation. All of the scales seemed to decimate the hanyou, until Ryuu turned around into a fist. Naruto had at the last second replace himself with one of Ryuu's clones and snuck up behind the real one.
"Nice reflexes coward. At least I know what I'm doing, you just seem to half-ass it." Ryuu stood up and then the bizarre happened. The scales encompassed him before shrinking and attaching themselves to him. Ryuu looked up after his transformation had ended and he had changed into a humanoid dragon. "Well that's new."
"All of Kami's guards earn a sword with which they can transform with. This is my transformation: Skull the Lightning Dragoon!" Naruto gulped before dashing off away from the transformed Ryuu, who merely laughed at his prey. "My senses should be on par with yours, but my power far exceeds yours!"
"Maybe I'm way in over my head. Well too late now and I'm not giving up." Naruto stopped in a clearing a mile away from Ryuu. Though the entire time it seemed as if rain clouds were forming. Then it happened lightning strikes hit the training ground. A new one seemed to be added every second, "Trying to snuff me out, eh? Undead Style: Reaper's Hand's Defense!" Skeletal hands shot up out of the ground and formed a dome over Naruto. Luckily a lightning bolt hit after it was formed.
"It's useless Demon! You're in my territory and I make the rules here! HAHAHAHA!"
'I swear I don't know who the real demon is anymore,' thought Naruto. "At least this dome will protect me for a little bit. Now time to see how strong you really are. Undead Style: Skeletal Army: x1000!" Naruto slammed his hand on the ground and activated the seal he drew. This in turn activated seal tags Naruto placed around the Training ground.
"When you don't have dead bodies, make some. Unfortunately they aren't as strong as if I did the on earth. It'll have to do for know." After the tags stopped glowing, skeletal-like structures appeared out from under the seals. The tags hanging from the foreheads of each skeleton. Though none were made of bone, they were constructed from the material the tags had been attached to.
Ryuu felt a giant surge of chakra appear throughout the training ground. "What are you up to brat?" He how ever got his answer when a wooden skeleton had attacked him out of nowhere. Ryuu dodged and destroyed the construct with his lightning strike. "So he can create skeletons, but they seem to need those seals to form. Interesting I've never heard of this before." He wasn't the only one.
-Kami's location-
"Undead Style? The hell is that? BROTHER!" A black flame appeared and out of it came the Shinigami.
"Yes Kami?"
"Have you heard of something called Undead style?"
"No, but I think his gift does more than just Kekkei Genkai. How else do you explain his transformation into a hanyou?"
"If that were so, wouldn't he have gotten something from all the gods and goddesses."
"Not necessarily. Some kekkei genkai I had programmed to be obtained through touch. I believe this unknown variable in the gift works the same way. I touched him to transfer the gift and Kyuubi touched him to return him to his teammates."
"Inari touched him to stop the fight in the throne room," pointed out Kami.
"Hm, well his hanyou transformation was instant. Maybe the more powerful the being the longer it takes to grow. Then there's the matter of discovering something you didn't know you had. Then again the whole touch condition could just be a coincidence." Kami agreed with the statement.
"What happens if he obtains immortality?"
"Then you better not piss him off. Lest he destroys us all."
-Training Ground-
Naruto was now running from Ryuu after his dome collapsed. Luckily Naruto transferred the seal to his arm, but that too faded after Ryuu destroyed his army. 'SHIT, SHIT, SHIT! Fuckin' massive area of effect attack!' Ryuu stuck his hand out and his scales went flying at Naruto, albeit faster than before due to decreased mass. 'PERFECT!'
"It's only a matter of time brat! I'll end you and present your head to my master!"
"I thought I was suppose to be the demon! Stop taking my role damnit!" Ryuu laughed maniacally before launching more lightning and sharpened scales. This went on for a few hours until Naruto slipped and was pierced by a scale. Luckily, for Naruto that is, it was a clone and the real one was miles away.
-Real Naruto's Location-
Naruto smirked at hearing Ryuu's screams of anger, "Never mess with the master of escaping. Now how am I going to pierce that armor of his?"
"I could be of service," stated Ken.
Naruto fell of the boulder he was sitting on, "Since when were you in my head!"
"After I met you, the night after you released Wolf Fang from the cliff. Kami was suppressing my presence so I couldn't speak to you." Naruto took the logic at face value. Seeing as how he couldn't disprove it anyways.
"Ok wise guy. How can you help?"
"Wolf Fang isn't at full power because of a seal. After releasing the seal, it will revert back to his 'sealed form'. Don't worry it'll be ten times strong then his repressed, semi-released form."
"Ok and how will that help?"
"After you end the seal repressing Wolf Fang, you can control the wind to an almost godly degree."
"Shouldn't I use Wolf Fang if I'm going to be releasing him?"
Ken sighed, "At your level Wolf Fang will serve as your medium. He'll control the output of power, just flow your chakra through him. Now paint the flat of the blade with your blood on both sides." Naruto shrugged and unsheathed Wolf Fang and did as he was told. "Now say: 'Awaken Wolf Fang.'"
Naruto got up from the ground and steadied himself. He then channeled his chakra through the blade, "Awaken... WOLF FANG!" Ryuu arrived just a burst of wind exploded the area around Naruto. After the dust settled, Ryuu saw Naruto standing there holding a broadsword made of complete silver, even the hilt and hand guard.
"Changing swords won't save you."
"I didn't change my sword. I gave it a much need upgrade, dragon breath." Naruto took the sword in both hands and proceeded to build up the wind chakra around the sword. "Wind Breaker!" Naruto slashed Wolf Fang up diagonally and a huge gust of wind shot forth. It hit Ryuu dead-on, fortunately for him the surrounding trees in front of him took most of the damage.
"Is that all you've got. My scales are tougher than any material on Earth!" It was then that Ryuu felt something warm trickle down his arms, head, and torso. Looking down he discovered the wind had in fact cut him.
"The wind isn't a material it's an element. Also it helps if your blade sharpens the wind into blades that cut at a molecular level." Ryuu growled and struck himself with lightning. This healed the humanoid dragon, but it only seemed to frustrate Naruto a little.
"As long as my lightning clouds stand. I'M INVINCIBLE!" Naruto amassed his chakra and slashed his sword and aimed at the clouds. This scattered them and the sun started shining again.
"Thanks for the tip, dragon breath. Wind Breaker!" Naruto dash within a foot of Ryuu before unleashing the attack. This resulted in an explosion as Ryuu received massive damage and lost his transformation. Naruto was blown back into the cave, but not hard enough to lose consciousness. 'What a lucky break.'
"Wasn't luck. I merely told you what I've been trying to tell you for days."
'Then why didn't you tell me when I was in the dome?!'
"Watching you panic after his transformation was hilarious."
'Asshole.'
"Faux fur."
'Was that an insult?'
"I'm not very good with talking to people."
'I can tell.' Naruto finally made it out of the cave to find Kushina and Kami waiting.
"I had the referee check. Ryuu is unconscious and we were just about to find you. It seems that you won." Naruto sigh in relief that he had won. Though he could tell it was just barely as his youkai was very low at the moment. "I'm a man of my word, but I'm sending your mother with you."
"I don't need a babysitter."
"Oh I know. You can say I'm firing her."
"Is it because you despise her son?"
"No, I had always planned on returning her when I believed it was time. That and I finished her training yesterday." Kushina brightened up at that and dashed off to the infirmary with Ryuu. "Also I want you to be weary of an organization called Akatsuki. They seem bent on taking over the world you inhabit."
"I know I have spies you know. I've been watching them since a few of their members confronted me. Jiraiya scared them off thinking his was saving me. Probably did as I had just left Konoha at the time." By this time Kami and Naruto had arrived at the same place Naruto had gone to, after hearing of Sasuke's final chance.
"Well you'll take this door here. After your mother arrives here of course."
"Why are you being nice to me?"
"Would you rather I killed you instead?"
"Never mind," at this moment Kushina arrived with a pack of clothes.
"Let's go!" With that Naruto opened the door and shoved his mother through, afterwards he walked through and shut the door.
-Tanzaku Gai, day of the meeting-
Kushina landed face first onto the ground in an alley, 'Ouch!' Naruto merely stepped out and pulsed his chakra. He then sensed Konoha Anbu leaving the area in a hurry.
'Probably the Teme's escort.' Naruto then looked down to see his mother on the ground. "Let's go I have someone to pick-up. I don't like being late."
Kushina stuck her tongue out at her son's back before getting up and following him. After getting through the crowd, Naruto located Sasuke at a local dango shop. "Isn't that Mikoto's son, Sasuke?"
"Mikoto?"
"Mikoto Uchiha, the wife of the Uchiha clan head Fugaku."
"Oh yes and the current clan head is technically Itachi."
"Technically?"
"The Uchiha were massacred by Itachi. Itachi was labeled a traitor and fled the village. Sasuke would be considered the clan head since Itachi is a wanted criminal of Konoha."
"Aren't you one as well?" Naruto ignored her and approached Sasuke. By approach I mean he dropped his pack under the table and sat down.
"Took you long enough. Now if you'll excuse me I have someone to meet."
"I know your trying to go to Orochimaru, Sasuke. Though you won't today or for the next month."
"What do you mean?"
"Oh I tricked Orochimaru into letting me train you for a month. Now meet my mother, she'll be doing the actual training."
"There's a catch to you letting me go isn't there?"
Naruto looked Sasuke in the eyes, "Of course. In two years, from now, you're going to kill Orochimaru. Then if I'm feeling generous I might let you go after Itachi."
Wolf: Done!
Ryuu: Ugh my head.
Wolf: Oh shut-up you baby.
Ryuu: You try fighting that maniac.
Wolf: You were doing well until the end. Close match so don't go mopping around.
Ryuu: Why did I have to lose?
Wolf: I'm the author. You're lucky I didn't kill you off.
Ryuu: Whatever.
Wolf: Anyways thanks for reading. AND PLEASE REVIEW MY STORY!
