Chapter 13

Ken was walking home; he was half way up the main road that led to his home. He was reading a book on the advanced adaptation of herbs, colour, chakra and the use of symbols.

He was reading a chapter on the effect of different types of herbs and at what phase of the moon they should be planted for certain effects.

By the time he had got back to the house he had decided to try some new potions that he had been thinking of. Some offensive and some supplementary.

As he walked through the door he cast out his senses. As he had learnt to when he was 9.

Naruto, Hinata, Sakura and Tsunade were training in the garden training field. Shino and Sasuke were in the kitchen, Sasuke was reading a book on jutsus that came from the library that I showed to them. Shino was simply sitting there drinking tea.

Ken walked straight to the training field in the garden. Shino and Sasuke had sensed his presence and were still sat in the kitchen. When he got to the field Tsunade was teaching Sakura how to store chakra behind her forehead so that she would be able to use Souzou Saisei (Creation Rebirth) jutsu that would heal all and any injuries. She was also explaining that it should only be used as a last resort because of the side effect.

Hinata and Naruto were sparing using only taijutsu, Hinata wasn't using the gentle fist style so she just tapped him when she hit him so she wouldn't close his tenketsu. After a long exchange of blows they leapt apart and stopped.

Ken went to start his usual after college training. He walked to the centre of the field. While Hinata and Naruto talked and Sakura and Tsunade took a small brake for Sakura to have a rest.

Ken stood in the centre of the field. He got into a stance that none of the group recognised. His left hand was close to his body and horizontal, his right hand was in front of it and vertical, his right leg was bent slightly and his left was straight and pointed out to that side of his body. He moved his left hand out from his body, arm pointing to a section of the ground a few meters away, he turned his hand so the palm was facing up then raised his hand up about 7 inches. As he did this an earth pillar rose from the ground, at the end it was a 7 foot tall cylinder shape. After it was rose he shifted his weight onto his bent left leg and leapt forward, when he reached the earth post, in one bound. He attacked it repeatedly and then stopped.

The post had been completely destroyed and he hadn't even enhanced the attacks with chakra.

After this he shifted back into the stance from before. He turned in a circle quickly and put his hands out, one above the other. As he span water began to appear in his hands.

He's pulling the water out of the air without using a water gathering jutsu.Tsunade realized.

Ken stopped when he had a large sphere of water. He then moved one hand away from the water, as if he were pulling a string out of it. As he did this the water began to move as well, it moved out, following the movements that he made. A long line, like a piece of thick rope, moved from the sphere. He moved his hands in intricate patterns, flowing gracefully between each move of his hand and arms. The water flowed, obeying the movements and silent commands he made. After 10 minutes of training in this method he decided to try to perfect something he had been working on.

He settled into his stance then moved so that his back was bent to be parallel with the ground and moved his arms in a wide sweeping motion that mimicked his movements. He was building up wind chakra as he stood straight up he stamped his foot on the floor, this created a pillar of earth to rise from the floor where the other pillar had been.

As the pillar stopped he thrust his arm holding the air wall straight out. The ball flew from his hand quickly and blew up when it came into contact with the pillar. Leaving a large crater in the place were the pillar once stood, nearly 10 meters radius, from the ex-pillar to one edge.

"WOW. That was amazing." Naruto said standing up with his usual fox grin covering his face.

Everyone else were trying to pick there jaws of the floor.

"DAMN IT" Ken said annoyed. "I still can't control the amount I need to use."

"What do ya mean?" Naruto asked. "That was awesome."

"If I don't use enough them it is too weak to do any real damage but if I use too much or can't control the chakra I use then it becomes unstable and can't be controlled." Ken explained. "Although that was the closest I have got so far. I think I'll try that another time."

Over the next 3 hours the group trained and Tsunade taught them all how to store their chakra behind there foreheads to use the Souzou Saisei (Creation Rebirth) jutsu. Ken taught the group some of the basics of how to control an element without using a jutsu. They had been told that they wouldn't be able to do this as strong or efficiently as he could as it was an ability that he had. Naruto was the only one that may be able to do it like he could although Sakura and Hinata were also fairly good because of their enhanced chakra control.

The next day.

Ken got to school at 8:15. He hadn't got much sleep last night and had been ready to leave at 7:30 so he had left a note for the group to tell them that he had left early. The had used up a fairly large amount of chakra and energy when he had taught them the things he had last night, although Naruto was fine and still itching to do some more work when the others had collapsed from chakra exhaustion. He had left them all an advanced device that would allow them to contact each other if the need arose (not a mobile). It was spherical in shape and the ball would show the image of the one you wanted, if they had a device. (Similar to the devices the Go'ould use in stargate, but more powerful and more advanced.) He had taught them how to use it the day before when they had been training.

He also left a map for them that would lead them to his college incase they decided to meet him during or after he finished.

He had gone to his lab after that to start working on a device that would be able to get the group back home to were they belonged.

He had a 1 lesson today so he could leave at lunch and get home and teach them some more.

At 11:15 his lesson was finishing and break was about to start. Ken had just stood up to exit the room when he felt a sharp pain in his temples.

He recognised it almost immediately. He turned and threw a kunai at the wall underneath an open window.

"Ken what the hell are you doing?" His geography teacher asked as he stood from his desk, shocked.

There then came a deep laughing from where the kunai had been embedded in the wall.

"So you saw through the genjutsu. I'm impressed" A man said as he released the genjutsu that had hidden him.

He was 6 foot 1, had short black hair, and was dressed in loose black pants, a black muscle shirt. He also had a long black leather coat. He was broad and muscular, not someone to be taken likely.

After Ken had taken a look at the man, recognising him as an Etan. He turned and ran out of the room, he knew this was going to get complicated and there wasn't enough room in the classroom to fight. He ran down the stairs hurtling past confused students. He could sense that the man was following him, albeit slower.

As he got out into the open area of the quad, courtyard area, he shouted "Everyone get to the sides now." As he said this the man came through the door and sent a ball of crackling blueish purple energy at Ken.

He was too busy trying to get them to move to dodge the ball. It slammed into him and sent him hurtling a few yards. As the students saw this they all heeded his advice and moved to the edges. Except Jen, she ran over to him and helped him up.

"Get to the edge with everyone else." Ken told her as he steadied himself.

"There's no way I'm letting you get hurt like this by him." Jen replied giving the stranger a heavy glare.

"JUST DO IT." Ken said his voice laced with concern for her safety. Reluctantly she went to the edges with the rest of the students.

Ken turned his head to the man opposite him when he saw that she was safely out of the way.

"Well this is the mighty Ken." The man said sneering at Ken. "You don't seem that though. By the way my name is Kuro."

"Well then Kuro. WHAT THE HELL DO YOU WANT?" Ken yelled angrily at the man.

Kuro smirked. "Straight to the point I see. Ok then. I want to offer you the same thing that Shindel offered you and also we would like you to, also if you would help us with some research in replicating your kekkei gankai and we will not only bring back your true mother but we will also bring back the only 2 friends that you had that fully accepted you for what you are and what you are capable of. Do this for us and we will resurrect them all for you." Kuro said in a neutral voice.

Everyone there had heard what he had said as the place was completely silent. Ken's eyes were the size and shape of dinner plates. The crow had gasped, completely shocked at what they had heard.

"Ranpu, Guu." Ken whispered. Everyone heard what he said. Kuro smirked evilly.

Ken looked at Kuro, and then he noticed the smirk. It reminded him that the man was evil and he, Ken, was good. "I will never work with evil. You can take your offer and shuv it." Ken said glaring so fiercely that Kuro was frozen in place.

Then Kuro smirked. "Then I guess I'll have to force you to help us." Kuro said as he reached behind his back dispelling the last of the genjutsu he had up, revealing a large black sword. It was 28 inches long. The hilt was black and there was a silver spiral design wove around the hilt that ended near the start of the blade with a silver skull on each side. The blade was a dark greyish black metal.

Ken also reached back and also dropped a genjutsu that hid his own double swords. They are light so they were fast. The hilts are white with a blue and red metal spiral pattern that wove around the hilts to the base of the blades. At the base of both blades there's a blue metal flame design that extends around the base of the blades. The blades are made of a white metal, the strength of which could rival Orochimaru's legendary sword Kusanagi.

"You can try." Ken replied to Kuro's attempt at intimidation. Ken slipped into a sword stance that is legendary and ancient. It is also lost to all but him; he learnt it from a scroll that he found in a temple that had not been seen to the world in thousands and thousands of years.

Kuro noticed the stance and recognised it. His eyes widened to the size of discs. "That's impossible. That stance has been lost to the world for millennia. How do you know it? Even our sword masters don't know that stance." Kuro was furious that someone that in his opinion didn't deserve to be alive let alone have such knowledge and power.

Now it was Ken's time to smirk. "You've got no idea what you dealing with." Ken said.

"Neither do you." Kuro replied.

After he said that they both launched themselves at each other with amazing speed. The crowd watched on in awe as they watched the 2 blur then clash then blur again. The sound of swords clashing could be heard by everyone.

Just by coincidence the group of Konoha ninja came walking into the quad at that moment. They noticed that a large number of people were around the edge of a large open area, also blocking off their view of what was going on. The group began to push threw the people to find out what was going on.

As they got to the front they noticed the sound of swords clanging come to an end. They finally got to the front and noticed Ken was stood in an unfamiliar sword stance and there was a man stood opposite him that was also in a sword stance. The group noticed the swords that the pair were wielding. Naruto noticed that the sword that Ken's opponent's wielding is one that's made of a black metal that is rare and very powerful; it allows the user to channel a large amount of chakra into the sword that increases the strength, speed, power and how far the blade reaches. The ones that Ken's wielding are made of a white metal that like the black metal sword is rare but even more powerful then the others sword. It had the same abilities plus it could increase the user's powers, increase their speed and increase their resistance to attacks.

He had learnt this from the weapons training that he had received from Kyuubi, she had taught him everything about different weapons, how to use them and also about the different substances that can be used to make them and their properties.

As Naruto analysed their weapons the 2 circled each other. As he finished the 2 also finished circling each other. Ken stabbed the ground with his swords, a powerful blast of energy blasted into the ground. Ken closed his eyes and concentrated on the earth.

Kuro realised what he was doing and tried desperately to stop him, to no avail. Ken opened his eyes, smirked then sank to the floor with his legs crossed. As he sat down a shield of earth came up around him, creating a defence that would protect him till he was finished.

At this point Megami had materialized next to Naruto, scaring the hell out of a group of people around him. Mostly they were looking at her nine fox tails and fox ears.

Naruto explained to Megami what had happened.

As he finished she turned to the man that had attacked her grand son, with eyes blazing with an unearthly fire in them. Tsunade was just as angry. At the same moment both women ran at him for a surprise attack. Unfortunately for them Kuro had sensed the increase in killer intent directed at him. He span around rapidly over and over again, this pushed him away from Tsunade's fist and also away from the enrage demon lord.

The group of ninja took this as a cue to join the attack. Naruto formed a wind Rasengan, which he had perfected under Megami, and threw it at Kuro. This took him by surprise as he had never seen such a technique.

Damn these pests, I need to finish this quick so I can stop Ken before he….. Kuro's thoughts were interrupted as another chakra enhanced fist came at him. This time the source was a girl with shockingly pink hair.

Sakura never let up on her barrage of punches and kicks that were aimed at his vital points. After a while she jumped back but Kuro ran forward landing a blow that knocked her off balance enough for him to stab her through the stomach with his sword.

At least that would have happened if Sasuke hadn't got there in time, using his Chidori current he blasted Kuro with an intense blast of lightning chakra that would have severely injured Kuro if he hadn't dodged the worst of it. He back flipped out of the way from another attack before he could be hit again.

While this had been going on Ken had gone into an intense meditative state.

From what Tsunade could sense he was drawing up an immense amount of chakra and focusing it on a specific point of his body.

"Hinata. Come over here. Quickly" Tsunade shouted urgently, she had a bad feeling.

Hinata had been exchanging short barrages of gentle fist strikes with the enemy, in an attempt to slow him down. She had become very powerful and fast in the time Naruto had been away.

She leapt away from the fight, while Naruto gave her the cover she needed, and ran over to Tsunade.

"Hai Tsunade-samma." Hinata said as she reached the Tsunade.

"I need you to look at where Ken is and tell me if you see anything strange at all." Tsunade explained to the Hyuuga heiress.

"Hai Tsunade-samma." Hinata replied. She activated her Byakugan instantly without the need to say 'Byakugan' or do the hand seal to focus her chakra. She had developed with her Byakugan to an advanced level. So much so that she was at the same level as Neji.

She looked into the earth shield where she knew Ken was located. What she saw shocked and slightly scared her.

"What is it? What's wrong?" Tsunade asked worriedly as she saw Hinata's face.

"It looks like he is channelling chakra to a specific location." Hinata said.

"But that's not the worst part, is it?" Tsunade asked worriedly. She had gotten fond of Ken and she felt the same bond with him as she felt with Naruto.

"No, I recognise the way the chakra is being channelled in that area. It's the same way that Naruto focused the demonic chakra when he fought Neji in the chuunin exams three years ago, back then I didn't know about the fox being inside him so I naturally thought that he just had an inert ability and that his chakra was just naturally like that when drawing on the depths of it, but it's the same way Gaara channelled his chakra when he went berserk back then at the arena." Hinata explained.

"Are you saying that not only is he the grandson of Megami but he is also a Jinchuuriki?" Tsunade asked shocked.

"Yes." Hinata answered.

"This is bad." Tsunade took this point to look over at the group of ninja that were fighting Kuro. They were holding there ground but Sakura was tiring. Naruto still had tonnes of chakra and energy, so did Sasuke. Shino was attacking with his bugs but like Sakura he was using lots of chakra and wouldn't last much longer.

At this point a large pillar of light shot down from the sky and engulfed the shield. The shield receded and Ken floated up to about halfway and then stopped.

"SHIT." Kuro shouted very worried.

If that seal is removed then he will be able to tap into that things chakra and that I can't allow. Kuro thought. He then bypassed the group he had been fighting, as they were all shocked at what they were seeing. He ran towards the pillar of light in an attempt to kill Ken before anyone realised what was happening. Unfortunately for him Megami had noticed his movements and intercepted him halfway sending him flying into a nearby wall.

Suddenly people began to appear floating around him. Up until now Ken had had his eyes closed. He opened them like he had been asleep for hours. The people around him were transparent, revealing that they were either projections or they were spirits that weren't manifested into a physical form.

They all wore robes of varying colours and with varying designs on them. The one that stepped forward caught the attention of both Ken and Megami. She was 5 foot 10, slim, beautiful and had long wavy red hair. She wore a red robe with fire around the bottom and on the back was a fox with 9 tails. But the thing that drew most people's attention was that she had 7 flowing tails. She smiled kindly at Ken.

"Mamma?" Ken whispered softly. Tears beginning to sting his eyes.

"I am so proud of you my son. You are wise and have people that you can trust and that trust you. You have made good choices." She said in a soft caring voice. (She was referring to the choice he made to the Etans as they promised to revive her and his 2 most precious people is he helped them with there evil.) "You have suffered more then anyone should ever have to in there lifetime. I am sorry." She said sincerely. "It has been decided that the seal on you is to be removed for good. We," She gestured to the people around Ken. "The higher council of those that have past have decided that the seal was improperly placed on you by a frightened man to try to protect his power." She said the last part with distain for the man that had forced her to put a seal of binding on her only son. "The beast that is in you is one that will help you; he is kind and will protect you. When this is over you will also be bonded with the beast, this will allow you to use his power at will and with no side effects or problems. Also after this ask that my mother bond with her Jinchuuriki."She smiled fondly at her son. Then went back to her place amongst the other higher council members.

The people around him began to move clockwise around him, they also started a power raising chant, then a seal releasing chant that he had never heard before.

After 5 minutes they began to slow, and then stopped. "It is done." An elderly woman to Ken's left said softly. They group of elders smiled softly at Ken.

"Goodbye my son." Ken's mother said before she faded away with the rest of the council.

Ken began to float back to the floor as the white pillar of light began to disappear.

As he landed softly on the floor he felt a presence that he had never felt before, and along with that presence came a power that he had never felt before.

Ken looked forward and met Kuro's glare with one of his own. Ken picked up his swords and they began to glow white with the power that he was flooding them with.

"Now this will end." Ken said darkly.

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SO WATTA YA THINK. WAS THINKING OF MAKING A TENTH TAILED BEAST FOR KEN BUT DECIDED THAT MIGHT NOT WORK SO I USED ONE OF THE TAILED BEASTS THAT I DON'T THINK HAVE BEEN CAPTURED.

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