Woo! Better reception than I thought, which is nice! Keep em coming if you all don't mind.
To 'Guest': nah, it's cool. I don't mind dark and maybe those kind of seals would be for terminally ill people. Maybe that's what Naruto needs to make his leg work for longer. Maybe. We'll see. Hope your still reading.
Pretty much all I had to do was read over this story again and check for grammatical and logical mistakes. Tell me if I missed any.
A little warning, I changed up history a bit concerning Itachi. Read to see what. It's nothing bad, it's great actually.
Enjoy!
CHAPTER 11
Konoha
The Namikaze-Uzumaki estate was a very large but at the same time humble place.
The house consisted of a parlour, a living room, a kitchen, a humble library, a storage room, four bedrooms and an attic. The front yard was filled with multi coloured flowers Naruto only assumed his mother had planted in her leisure. The backyard was humble but not large enough for an all-out spar, so he chose to keep using his special place, plus there were also sweet smelling flowers at the back yard that were miraculously still in good condition thanks to some seals he found inside the walls that froze motion in the house and his god mother keeping the flowers intact when she was alive. Mikoto Uchiha wasn't too good as a god mother as his mother thought; the only thing he remembered about her was when he kept finding groceries and new clothes in his apartments with the initials 'MU' on the bag. He thought that it was his ANBU that helped him. So, in a way she was looking after him, a lot more than Jiraiya ever did that's for sure.
Tsunade had already gone and left him to look around by himself. He was now in his parent's room, running his fingers slowly through his father's white with red flames haori. The seals inside the walls kept everything within in suspended animation until the blood seal was deactivated at the gate, probably a combination of his parent's talents in fuinjutsu. The haori still lightly smelt of freshly cut grass and a light rain shower, and his mother's kimono smelt of…ramen. This made him chuckle lightly; he liked ramen as well, probably not as much as she did though. His parent's room looked a bit scattered, making him think that he came out a bit earlier than normal, if the fist sized hole in the wall and a male imprint (probably Minato) in the wall.
After exiting his parent's room we find him kneeling inside the baby room. His blue eyes looked around at all his parents had gotten him from teddy bears, to rubber shuriken, to cute little soccer balls. There was a wooden crib with neat blue blanket inside. The wall paper was, predictably, bowls of ramen and blue whirlpools. He grasped a small teddy bear in his hands and looked around calmly before he sealed it into a storage seal near his heart that had his mother's comb and his father's hitaite. He walked around the whole house like a phantom, touching and reading the little letters and instructions his parents left for him like he should snap the gas stove's knob to the right exactly three times before it would turn on, telling him that it always stuck. He found a note on the fridge telling him the exact places he should place his groceries. His mother was both methodical and playful, he was sure he inherited the former. Maybe the gut feeling his parents had for impending doom was thrumming too harshly for his parents.
He looked through the wedding photos the two had, though there weren't many present because it was a more private wedding it was still something.
After the emotional trip, or as emotional as Naruto could get, the boy couldn't resist checking out the joint clan library. The place was about the same size as his baby room but it was absolutely stocked with books, scrolls and tomes. Most of which were from the Uzumaki clan, probably sent to the last princess before the village was destroyed. The rest were Minato's unfinished breakthrough in all aspects of the ninja life, like his studies on how to perfectly combine fuinjutsu and genjutsu. Naruto had done that with Yakumo's demon, but he wasn't sure if it would work on a person or how fast he'll be able to prepare the seal in the heat of battle. So, in a way, he could half mark off what his father had started. This put some warmth in his chest.
The studies the man did finish was his studies on how to combine taijutsu and fuinjutsu; his fighting style was one of legends and was said to only be able to master by his own blood, or someone with high regeneration. Sadly still Naruto couldn't use the 'Humming bird' taijutsu style because it made use of flexibility, light stances and raw speed. The strikes came fast and unseen, breaking the opponent down with blows to vital organs so fast he won't know how to dodge. The Yondaime was truly a shinobi of power only seen once in a generation or two. Maybe that was where Naruto inherited his prowess for seals and study or research from.
That was not to say Kushina wasn't a genius with seals; the red haired woman was said to have the strongest barrier seals and the most durable restraint seals, something that weakened when he was being given birth to. The woman, with all the Uzumaki scrolls, had in the library jutsu scrolls, a few summoning scrolls and fighting styles she had found during her missions as an active shinobi. Looking through the fighting styles he found two that could serve him well if he mastered them.
The first was called the 'Armadillo fist' fighting style. This style was discovered in a giant ant hill outside Earth country. Kushina's team had been scouting out the border for any holes until she had almost literally tripped over it. The woman, after reading it, had put it into storage since she was in not remote way a defensive fighter. The style greatly emphasized strong feet, forearms and back (spine) with limited flexibility (Note: limited, not zero). The scroll said that durable forearm and shin protectors were an important requirement. If a person was to attack, the user of the style was to block, after studying all the ways to effectively block an attack, and counter with bone shattering strength. Naruto could handle all that.
The second was called the 'Sloth Vine fist' fighting style. The scroll wrote that it was the Sandaime Uzukage's personal fighting style since the man was born with a slight limp in his right leg. The style made use of deceptively slow but precise strikes to major organs, either with weapons or with seals. The 'Vine' aspect of the taijutsu style was an addition the man put in to incorporate his chakra chains. It greatly depended on the user's ability to think on his feet since the blocks were terrible to say the least, but the counters and strikes were mouth-watering. The man used his chakra chains to grab hold of his opponent when he was near and rained down blows on him, or if he was fighting in a forest he used them to climb trees or throw away weapons.
The blonde boy pursed his lips in thought and weighed the scrolls in his hands, trying to decide which one to learn. Then he made his decision, 'who says I can't learn both? I'll start with the armadillo fist since that one is closer to what I can do with my body. What do you think Kyu?'
"I agree. With enough practice you can improve on it and incorporate you chakra beam," the great beast was sitting on his haunches, looking out of Naruto's eyes as well as reading through the boys memories, "what summons are you going to pick?"
'Who says I need summons?'
Kurama rolled his eyes and snorted, "With how you're going you won't need them, but since I've known you, you've never not had a back-up plan for your back-up plan."
'I'll think about it,'
"Suit yourself, I'm going to have a nap," and he was out like a light. Naruto looked down at the two scrolls in his hands and nodded resolutely,
"There's work to be done,"
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"Hinata-chan! Hey, Hinata-chan!" the Hyuuga heiress turned to the person calling her name and smiled lightly at the Yamanaka heiress,
"Ohayo Ino-chan," the blonde girl was lugging two pots of Juniper saplings in her thin arms, the purple haired girl politely took a pot out of Ino's hands and walked along-side her to her family flower shop, choosing to post pone her trip back to her clan compound, "how have you been doing?"
"I've been well," the girl flipped her hair and eyed the Hyuuga with her teal green eyes, "you look good, Hinata-chan," true to what Ino had said, Hinata did look good. She wore her purple coat fully unzipped, exposing her mid riff black shirt and the bandages wrapped around her torso and her arms, she also had on a thigh high black skirt and dark purple ninja grade leggings, with a pair of light blue sandals. Hinata smiled widely at the girl,
"Thank you, I thought no one would notice," contrary to what she said, she knew Naruto first noticed; he had sent her a smile and a thumb up.
"Are you kidding me?! Look around, all the guys are basically ogling you," Hinata raised an eyebrow and looked around, true to Ino's words she was being ogled. Most of the younger boys and some men stopped and were blatantly staring at her; a guy she passed by even licked his lips. She blushed deeply and lowered her head,
"Oh…"
"'Oh' is right. Hinata-chan you're HOT," Ino nudged her playfully, "what's your secret?"
"Secret?"
"Yeah, I mean, just before the chunin exams you were so bland, no offense, now you're desirable," Hinata blushed deeper and Ino giggled, "hold your horses, I'm not crushing on you. I'm as straight as Kiba!" she paused and leaned in to whisper conspiratorially, "or am I…?" steam was basically blowing out of Hinata's ears, "oh calm down, I was just messing with you. Now spill, what's your secret? Is it some sort of complicated diet? Do you detoxify yourself? I hear if you swallow tape worm eggs-"
"No! Don't do that or any of that," the Hyuuga heiress' eyes were wide in horror, "I exercise and I train, there's nothing to it,"
"I've been exercising and I've been training. There has to be more to it,"
Hinata eyed the girl beside her, "you don't eat much,"
"I have to keep my figure. This," she used her free hand to motion to her body, "doesn't happen overnight, y'know,"
"Yes but your too thin, no offense,"
Ino sighed and blew her fringe out of her eye, "none taken, but what do you want me to do? Sasuke doesn't like fat girls,"
"Sasuke owns your body?" Hinata was genuinely confused,
The other girl blushed lightly, "well…no…he doesn't,"
"Why are you starving yourself for him? Your weight is an important factor in being a ninja; you don't have to be fat,"
"I heard someone say Sasuke likes thinner girls," Ino stubbornly said with her nose raised,
"Unless you want him to use you and leave you; Sasuke isn't exactly who you'd consider loyal," she whispered the last part to the girl beside her,
"If we start dating I'll change him," they both waved to the bun haired weapons mistress and the girl jogged up to them,
"Ohayo Hinata-chan, Ino-chan," both girls smiled at her as she joined their group, or Ino tried to smile, "what're you girls talking about?"
"Ino being delusional,"
"Hey!"
Tenten laughed and quirked an eyebrow at the purple haired girl, "how so?"
"She thinks Sasuke would notice her,"
"HEY!"
"The duck butt haired boy? I know a lost cause love-wise when I see one and he is a lost cause,"
Ino ducked her head, "I-I can help him…"
"You can do that but you need to eat!" Hinata exclaimed, she followed the blonde heiress into her family's flower shop and gently placed the flower pot in her arms onto the counter, she put her hands on her hips and pointedly looked at the blonde girl, who couldn't meet her eyes,
Tenten furrowed her eyebrows and frowned, "if Sasuke can't see you for you then he's not worth it," before Ino could raise a complaint the brown haired girl spoke up, "I saw how you stared at those dumplings next door," Ino's argument died in her throat,
"And those chocolate bars down the street," Hinata said with a small smile,
"And those frosted tarts next to the chocolate store," Tenten said with a big smile,
"And those roasted turkeys next to that store," Hinata said with a full blown grin,
"And the soda that kid was drinking," Tenten said with a little giggle in her hands,
"You saw that?" Hinata 'whispered' to the weapons mistress,
"Yeah, I even saw her lick her lips," both laughed loudly,
"I get it ok!" the blonde girl exclaimed over their cackling, her face was beet red. She punched Tenten's shoulder and crossed her arms with a small pout, "I'll eat more, are you happy?"
"Very happy," Hinata pulled her into a side hug and pulled Tenten, who was hesitant to join in too as well, "now we have to convince Sakura to eat more as well,"
"I have an idea; let's set up a team picnic," the weapons mistress said as she and the other two gently pulled away from each other,
"that's a great idea, I know the perfect spot," Ino chirped as she swivelled around and began setting the juniper sapling in their right places, "I found this really cool river near training ground 14 near these nice flowers," she sighed wistfully,
"I'll even ask Naruto-kun and Yakumo-nee-chan to come," Hinata said,
"Who's Naruto? Was he in the chunin exams?"
"Yeah, he was in the Kage's ward booth, Sandaime-sama put him there for his safety,"
"The boy on the wheelchair? The guy that held Neji back with that freaky rope, right?" Tenten supplied with a confused look,
"Yes, he won't admit it but he's really shy but when you get to know him you'll see he's a real gentleman," she sighed wistfully,
"Sounds like a cool guy. My teams off training and missions this weekend," Ino said as she watered some tulips,
"Mine too," Tenten added,
"Same," was Hinata's addition, "I think team seven would be free this weekend too. We'll go round and invite them,"
"We can even hold a small spar a while after we eat," the weapons mistress bubbled out,
"I'll handle the food-"
"Me too," Ino cut into whatever Hinata was about to say, "Do we cook here or at your place? I'm fine with either,"
"Let's do the cooking here, but I'm bringing my special cinnamon buns with me, that's for sure," the Hyuuga heiress licked her lips,
"I can't wait. I have to go and open the store now, see you guys later. Say…this evening?"
"Yeah, I'll bring forehead girl with me," Tenten waved and left the flower store. The girl had slowly made friends with the other girls when she had visited Hinata in the hospital and apologized for her Hyuuga team mate's harsh words. Hinata couldn't keep a grudge even if it would kill her so she insisted that it was fine. Hinata had been coming over to her father's weapons store to talk and restock her kunai and shuriken. From there a sort of friendship formed.
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Quiet metal clad feet trudged slowly through knee high snow. The person, a female with long white frizzy hair, looked up the mountain with mild excitement dancing in her eyes before she blew out some air and continued her slow progress upwards. It was moments like these that Rai truly appreciated; to be able to walk at the speed she wants to and to really take in the scenery. The view that she beheld was of the golden sun slowly rising up from the horizon and the light green trees in the forests close to the mountain she was climbing glistening softly as the sun's rays beamed down on them. She stopped and furrowed her eyebrows in thought, trying to remember how many times she had looked for this sort of peace but coming up with blanks; maybe her thirst for a good fight kept her in the light.
She riffled through her red cloud speckled Akatsuki uniform and brought out a map, 'this should be the place,' she looked up but only saw thick snow falling from the sky and the top of the mountain much farther than what she had expected, 'maybe I've got the wrong mountain?' then she shook her head negatively, 'the guide said the highest mountain…but he also said the monster was mythical…I should have thought this through,' she pushed the map back into her robe and ran a finger over the large scroll on her back, unsealing a pair of binoculars smoothly. She squinted her eyes through them and looked upwards, the snow clouding her view slightly but she did make out a faint outline of a cave, 'I've never slept in an ice cave before,' to warm herself up she sent a short burst of lightning outwards, melting the snow and making steam come off her body, 'much better,' she sealed the binoculars back into the scroll and pushed her left foot back a bit, clenching her fists as she did so. It started with a small spark from her knees, then the spark turn into dangerous electrical crackling before her whole body was covered in harsh lightning surges and she leaped forward and appeared at the mouth of the cave,
The electricity coursing around her flickered to a stop and she scratched her cheek lightly with her gauntlet covered hand,
'Point seven seconds, not bad,' she wrapped a Kumo seal reinforced scarf around her neck and rubbed her hands together, generating a small spark and expelling it out of her body again, the radius was a bit smaller than last time since the snow was much thicker up there. She used her pointer finger to point ahead at the massive cave opening and a small but sharp beam of white light shot out; it was initially a chakra control exercise she went through but now that she had full control over her lightning she could throw numerous jutsu and still not burst the light on her finger. This brought back the memory of her all out spar with the Uchiha and the swordsman.
Rai had not anticipated Itachi and Kisame ganging up on her but she took it all in stride. Itachi's Mangekyo could perfectly track her speed but it was one thing to track her and it was another to be able to keep up with her. Though his Susanno armour did become very pesky as well as his amaterasu, he used them frugally but effectively. She had to take off a few weight seals to be able to just barely slip into the armour as he activated it and electrocute him. Kisame was what most would consider having being matched up against a person that would perfectly match him; seeing as Rai was literally electricity incarnate and the shark was literally 92% water. The last mistake the man had made was shooting out a constant stream of water from his mouth and all she had to do was travel through as live electricity and punch him through a wall, using the small puddles around to hop around and penetrate Itachi's Susanno just barely. Lucky for her she didn't look into his eyes, she would have been a goner.
Make no mistake, it was a long way into the fight before she even saw the slightest of openings in Kisame's shark form to be able to think of using the water from his mouth to knock him out, or even think of using the puddles around to dodge 'Fire release: Mystic phoenix fire,' or the 'Wind release: Shuriken storm,' or even the hardest one to counter, Itachi's personal, but secret, favourite jutsu 'Fire and Earth release: Combination jutsu: Rage of the fallen god'. All these jutsu were used BEFORE Kisame was put out of the equation. The bloody Uchiha fought like a cornered lion that was for sure. Just thinking of the last jutsu, 'Fire and Earth release: Combination jutsu: Rage of the fallen god' sent ripples of goose bumps go up her arm.
Itachi expended more than half of his remaining chakra to create water clones out of the water around, while Kisame fully merged with Samehada and showed all present that he didn't need water to be able to swim; he could swim in the air. After making the clones and ordering them to attack her, Kisame included, the Uchiha hid in the waves of clones to go through a fifty hand seal long chain just before he cancelled his clones, to give him some room. Molten chains latched onto his arms from the ground, searing his sleeves off, and with a mighty heave he pulled out a demonic looking creature from the ground, controlling it with the chains in his grasps. The creature was made completely out of molten rock. It looked like a sort of half man, half bull, with long protruding horns from its head and a massive axe in its hands. The creature moved as fast as Itachi, which was considerably fast.
The cool Uchiha sent the creature after her not counting on the fact that it perfectly negated her lightning attacks by transferring the electricity into the ground and punching his ripped arms at her, sending blood out of her nose in her shock. Kisame zipped after her air borne body and head butted her into the ground, creating a massive gash on her forehead. Her daze didn't last long; she noticed the shark man had the intention of sucking her chakra out so she spun to her feet and threw arcs of lightning at the man, forcing him to dodge and not having any other option than to spray her with the jet of sharp water from his mouth, this was what ended his participation in the fight. The woman didn't know any effective water jutsu to douse the molten creation so she managed to kick it into the air and pump so much electricity into its body it exploded. From there all she had to do was push her way into the Susanno shield and electrocute Itachi into unconsciousness.
Rai didn't expect this much of a challenge for both S rank shinobi but she was grateful for the challenge. The brown skinned Kumo nuke-nin shook her head to bring her back to the present and she slowly walked into the pitch black cave, her small light beam cutting through it like butter. Her silver boots crunched under her as she cautiously looked around. Just then she heard a sharp whooshing sound and she jumped a little in the air to dodge a tail trying to clear her feet from under her, her danger senses, the one all experienced shinobi had, blared and she lay on the ground quickly to duck a paw strike, rolling away from another paw strike. Her eyes crackled with live power and two arcs of electricity escaped her fingers, bouncing around the cave walls and meeting at the other side, allowing her to briefly as well as get a small mental map of how wide the cave was and see who had attacked her.
Or what had attacked her.
What she saw was a spiny, mutated variation of a mountain lion, with an abnormally long prehensile tail and thick spines shooting out of its back two feet into the air. The teeth, from what she saw, consisted mostly of canine that descended past its sharp lower lip. It was a lumbering behemoth that pawed the ground like a bull, leaving a deep claw track in the ground.
Oh and it was made out of ice; eyes, body, tail and everything.
The ice creation opened its mouth wide and roared, making the lightning release user laugh, "your so cute," she stood up and dusted down her robe calmly, "now do me a favour and die, will ya," she took a basic kick boxers stance, which wasn't her usual stance, and motioned with both her hands for the ice monster to come at her. The monster, showing surprising intelligence, leaped at her. Her silver gauntlet fist swung and smashed against its head, creating a deep crack in its forehead and pushing it back a few feet. The crack smoothed over but the monster warily stalked around her, the woman laughed, "now your careful huh, I'm pretty sure it's too late," electricity danced in her eyes again and she grabbed the ground, making white lightning crack through the ice and circle around the monster. She creature warily looked around but didn't step out of the crackling circle, "smart kitty," live power sparked sharply and covered the ice monster in a dome of electricity, "Lightning release: Half moon,"
The monsters blood curdling screams could be heard from miles around.
The white haired Kumo nuke-nin walked into the smoke and waved it away; she bent down and grabbed the ice creature's massive head. She silently sealed it into her scroll and began setting up camp.
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Yumi, leader of Hidden Chill, raised her head sharply when she heard the unfamiliar roar of the mythical ice mountain lion. She idly rubbed her hands through a husky's head to calm him down as she stared in the general direction of where the lion was believed to reside. This was the first time since the second shinobi war that it had been heard and from its volume it sounded final. She smoothly stood up from her knees and dusted them down before she handed the husky to a masked male ninja standing behind her,
"Take him back to the kennels, Jyu-kun," the ninja bowed sharply and gently began leading the scared dog back to kennels. The woman pushed open her homes small fence and began her short trek to the leader's tower. Hidden Chill wasn't a shinobi village popularly known for its ninken but when there wasn't much of an option, dog partners were called in to help. The woman placed her hands behind her back and walked out of Chill's equivalent of a park. The ground was always snowy and the air was frigid, almost unbearably so, but there was never a lack in children playing around.
The blonde woman smiled lightly at some parents trying to get their four children to take it easy with the running, the couple were in their mid-twenties and they were red faced from exhaustion; children were really a bundle of energy, "by any chance would you need some assistance?" she called out to the couple,
The flustered parents bowed politely, the male partner, "no Yumi-sama, it's fine," they looked behind them to find their kids but didn't see anyone, they panicked and whirled around to the leader, but they paused when they saw they children lined up in front of the blonde woman, staring up at her with wide eyes. All four wore thick black parka, starkly contrasting the snow falling on their shoulders, with equally thick white snow boots,
Yumi smiled with her eyes closed at them and gave them a finger wiggling wave, "hello,"
"Is it true you can fly?!" a female child, probably the youngest blurted out and began flapping her arms,
"Don't answer her…Is it true you can see in the dark? How many carrots did you eat?!" another girl said, maybe the oldest,
"Now, now kids we don't want to tire out Yumi-sama, right?" the couple pulled their children back gently,
"they're little sweet hearts, don't worry about it," Yumi tittered a small laugh as she whirled around, her long blonde hair flying in the little breeze and waved over her shoulder to them.
Hidden Chill was situated in the colder region of the elemental nations, farther up north than even Snow country, this made it a partially hostile environment for some civilians but generations of living in Chill had taught all the little tricks on could do to stay as warm as you wanted, even for civilians. The present generation didn't find the cold in any way bothersome unless there was the occasional blizzard. Chill was abundant in land because most other Hidden villages were too scared of the sort of cold Chill go through on a daily basis. Despite these minor set backs' Chill had adapted and advanced more than most expected, having a minor trading agreement with Snow country to purchase some technology like gas cookers, water heaters, steam powered trucks to clear away the snow near houses in the morning and in the evening, among other things. From there Chills engineers started inventing.
Chill was ostracized by the other nations, once upon a time, when an epidemic befell them, starting from a child that managed to say he took some dumplings from a masked stranger before he died. From that child more became infected with what was referred to as 'Cold disease' because the body would freeze up and intense shivering would befall, like epilepsy, but the person would gradually lose his colour and die. It mostly struck the younger kids and their animals. This was a time when healers were not too common in Chill, only engineers. It was almost too late for Chill until a junior nurse began an unsanctioned experiment on the first victim, extracting the soggy almost digested dumpling from the dead child and finding a small black ball bearing inside. She took her findings to the doctor and a cure was scraped out from the ball bearing. The nurse died from initial contact but a memorial was placed in her honour, as well as the other casualties, in front of the leader's tower.
Yumi had lost her mother, the leader then, and her three sisters to the epidemic, leaving only her to try and scurry for control when only chaos and confusion rose after the epidemic had been ended. She was fourteen when she became leader. She had gained her peoples trust and had so far lead them well enough. Those were among her proudest moments; the major other one being that she had agreed to ally herself with the other five minor villages. Naruto had given her seals that would be able to keep a whole building warm, and the Hidden smoke leader, Kitsuen, had some of his best builders build a massive building for livestock and a farm. The seals were put into the building as well the houses of willing civilians and shinobi who wanted to keep warm the easy way.
Currently there were numerous Marsh and Waterfall medics in her hospital teaching the medics there more efficient ways of treating patients, most opted to stay permanently.
The woman pushed open her office doors and sat down on her desk, preparing for another whole day of reading mission reports and writing correspondence letters to the other five leaders.
Authors note
Jutsu list
Wind release: Shuriken storm: this is a B rank jutsu that converts barely harmful wisps of air around the target to the user's shuriken. This is through having a cyclone spin around the opponent harmlessly and throwing numerous shuriken into the storm for a more harmful effect. If used properly mastered one would be able to expand the cyclone into a tornado or even a hurricane. Other variations of this jutsu are available with the other affinities except Earth.
Fire and Earth release: Combination jutsu: Rage of the fallen god: this is the third of the four 'Fallen god' jutsu personally created by Itachi, Shisui and Bibi Uchiha. The three Uchiha prodigies of their time, who only one survived, created this particular jutsu in the genin days but perfected it in the jounin days, where a year later the latter two prodigies died from mysterious circumstances. The jutsu combines fire and earth affinities to create something close to molten lava and moulds the figure of a half man, half bull (a minotaur) who is said to embody the 'Rage' of the 'fallen god'. The beast, according to the three prodigies' individual notes, is said to boost their energy from its palpable anger and lust for the users opponents defeat, possibly death. From the notes, it was written that the jutsu was inspired by Suna puppet masters ability to control puppets. They went further to write that the molten chains, despite being painful, made it very easy to control the 'Rage of the fallen god'. The other 'fallen god' jutsu are… (You have to read to find out :D) this is a clear S rank ninjutsu and so far it is only known by the three prodigies and those that have died fighting against it (oh, and now Rai and Kisame).
Lightning release: Half-moon: is supposed to be a C rank jutsu, but in Rai's hands it turns into an A rank jutsu. The jutsu is a capture only technique, meant to maybe knock out the victim inside the dome. Rai can utilize this as a capture technique but she would honestly prefer using it as an execution technique, sparing her from the spray of blood and guts. It can be negated by any B ran Wind jutsu.
Light hearted chapter, somewhat, but trust me it's going somewhere. Everything here is relevant and/or significant.
How'd you all like Rai now? Badass chick in my opinion.
Next chapter should show Naruto training OR him associating with the others, either one. Who knows?
Please review, it would be greatly appreciated. :D
See you all on the flip side,
Foy.