Daylight Ch. 14: Legacy of the Hikari Clan

(Italics: Thoughts / Flashbacks / Dream sequence / Inner World. Bold: Title and Kyubi's / Demon's / Inner Character's Speech. Underline: Time Skips.

The Next Morning...

Naruto's eyes snapped open after passing out hard, the fatigue of his travels and the company of this woman draining a vast quantity of his once-abundant supply of energy. Naruto found himself in a large, rectangular bedroom, his clothes and ninja tools in a messy pile on the floor. Naruto quickly got dressed and gazed at this strange silver-haired woman he had slept with the night before, flashbacks of all the crazy shit he and this woman did distracting him from the present moment. After Naruto got a hold of his self and set priorities he nudged the wind seer awake.

"Hey you promised you'd take me to see Itachi..."

Naruto said in a serious tone. After a few moments the wind seer began to stir, stretching out as her eyes opened and her consciousness slowly yet fully awakened.

"After that wonderful night together that's all you have to say to a woman?"

The wind seer said with a playful smile on her face, her long silver hair a mess from the position she was sleeping on the bed, sitting up on the side of the bed. In response to this Naruto's face went a little red, his professional shinobi act not doing the job in this situation.

"That was a wonderful night, one of the best in my life but my mission is very important, it would mean a lot to me if you could take me to him as soon as you possibly can."

Naruto said, revising his previous statement. The wind seer merely smiled sweetly and ran the tips of her fingers along Naruto's whiskered cheek delicately.

"That's better..."

The silver hair beauty said in a soothing and playful tone.

Three hours later...

Hinata awoke in a small, box-shaped wooden room attached to the back of a local inn, a female agent of Number Eight runs the inn so he set it up to allow me refuge in this temporary sanctuary. Hinata knew deep in herself she loved Naruto and would risk everything and anything she could to secure his safety, his attention, and hopefully his love...

"Hinata gather your things, I've been ordered to take you to Head Quarters..."

The familiar voice of Number Eight said in a gentle yet almost demanding tone.

"Alright I'll be ready in no less than ten minutes."

Hinata replied, immediately packing up her belongings to move on to the next place. Good luck Naruto... The Hyuuga Heiress thought to herself as she and number eight left the inn and moved onto the next town, her only wish was she would see Naruto again soon...

Ino sat in her bedroom, gazing out her window into the distance. No matter how hard Ino tried she couldn't get her mind off of Naruto... A part of Ino wish she had never gotten close to Naruto... Another part of Ino was grateful for all the love she and Naruto shared and would patiently await his return... Or in the worst-case scenario she would leave to join Naruto on his journey.

"Ino lunch is ready!"

Ino's mother called from downstairs, Ino immediately coming back to reality and heading downstairs for her mother's delicious meal.

A shadowed figure sat atop a throne-like seat in the middle of a large, rectangular, torch-lit chamber.

"Has the order been carried out Number One?"

The shadowed figure said into the silence and darkness filled atmosphere.

"Yes my Lord, the girl has been intercepted and being brought here as we speak."

Number one replied in an obedient and soothing tone, seeming to manifest out of nothingness, her feminine form exposed from her black robes.

"Good work Number One... Inform me when our guests from the Hyuuga and Hikari Clan arrive."

The dark cloaked figure referred to as Lord said in a deep voice, a hint of satisfaction in his tone of voice.

"How much further is it?"

Naruto asked the wind seer as he followed her through what appeared to be wilderness, everything around him looking exactly the same as it was an hour ago, at least from his impatient perspective.

"Not far just be patient."

The wind seer replied as she and Naruto ventured through the thick, overgrown wilderness. After about an hour of traveling the wind seer led Naruto to an enormous, ancient-looking temple, the aging structure shaped in the form of a pyramid.

"We've arrived, now follow me inside and mind your manners before Lord Itachi."

The wind seer said, her hips moving from side to side as Naruto followed her into the depths of the labyrinth.

"Keep up with me Hinata, my lord eagerly awaits your presence."

Number Eight said, his back turned to the Hyuuga Heiress as they walked down a long, dark and narrow corridor leading through the ancient labyrinth.

"And I'll be reunited with Naruto-kun as promised?"

Hinata asked Number Eight as they walked, a hint of hope in her tone of voice.

"Of course Hinata, now hurry now we're almost there..."

Number Eight said as the narrow corridor he and Hinata had been walking through widened a little, a golden light illuminating from a tiny sliver directly in front of them. With one final venture Hinata and Number Eight emerged from the darkness and were both bathed in a powerfully bright and golden light. Before Hinata could even see properly a shadowed figure appearing to be that of a woman appeared before her.

"You're the girl from the Hyuuga Clan correct?"

The shadowed figure asked intuitively with a sly smile on her face. Hinata hesitantly nodded her head.

"Come with me if you will, my master has been expecting you."

The woman said, turning around and walking into the golden light, Hinata following right behind her, getting the strangest sensation within this temple that she had been reborn and was trying to open her eyes in the light for the very first time in her life.

Twenty Minutes Later...

Great we finally arrive and now I'm walking through these creepy passages inside of a pyramid, Itachi-sensei sure did choose a well-hidden yet strange location to set up his base of operations...

Naruto thought to himself as the wind seer guided him through the complex passages within the labyrinth. After a few more minutes Naruto and the Wind Seer found themselves in a single, long and dark corridor, a tiny sliver of light at the end, the intensity of the light growing as their destination steadily grew closer, with one final push Naruto found himself in a large rectangular room, everything in the color of gold. If Naruto hadn't already been used to the intensity of pure Hikari with his training with Itachi he would had been blinded upon entering. Hikari as the name suggests is light, in essence pure life force. In other words Hikari is chakra in its purest form before it's defined as an element. The clan Naruto descended from, the Hikari Clan had mastered this lost art and because of this they were feared just as greatly as the Uchiha during the first Two Great Ninja Wars.

"This is where we part ways, I'm glad we met Naruto of the Hidden Leaf..."

The wind seer said, turning her back to Naruto and walking back out the door, the pearl white gateway sealing shut behind her. Naruto gazing into space as he watched her leave.

"Welcome to the sacred ground of the Hikari Clan Naruto."

A familiar voice said in a deep and intrigued tone of voice. Naruto immediately turning around and sure enough Itachi Uchiha stood there, his grim and emotionless aura of hopelessness and despair easier to read than the powerful chakra he emitted. Without anything said Naruto immediately fell down to one knee in a respective bow.

"Itachi-sensei I was foolish to think I could be strong enough to protect my loved ones without finishing the training, please complete my training sensei!"

Naruto said, almost out of desperation. It was obvious to Itachi that Naruto had struggling emotions regarding how he handled defending the leaf against Akatsuki.

"If you truly wish to complete your training, show me your resolve!"

Itachi said in an intense tone, using his Mangekyou Sharingan's Amaterasu to form a sword of black flames, wielding it offensively and charging at Naruto head-on. Before Itachi could even blink a long sword composed of solid Hikari manifested in Naruto's hand instantly, successfully defending against his enemy's fierce attack. With a few swift, precise movements Naruto used every piece of his Kenjutsu training, embodying the teaching within his action as he attacked his master, his resolve to end Itachi's life quite visible. Itachi in one swift, precise movement deflected Naruto's attack and jumped upward in the air, performing a short series of hand signs as he gathered chakra in his lungs.

"Uchiha Clan Lost Art! Amaterasu Fire Ball Jutsu!"

Itachi roared, a fire ball forming in the empty space in front of his lips, connected invisibly to the point by his breath and chakra flow, launching the fire-ball downward at Naruto. Before the ball of flame was even a foot away from Itachi he activated his Mangekyou Sharingan's Amaterasu and lit the fire-ball aflame by this powerful, consuming black flame of hell, the black and red orb of unstable energy looking like the end of his lift from Naruto's perspective, gazing upward almost hopelessly as he closed his eyes and began forming hand signs. After a few moments Naruto's movements with the hand signs doubled, then tripled his eyes opening with his Kamigan active. Where the pupil of Naruto's eyes should be were a single ice-blue dot, same-colored triangles decorating the whites of his eyes from all three hundred and sixty degrees around. A blinding light filled the entire temple for a moment as a chakra-based explosion occured, the tremors that could be felt from outside the temple walls proof of the intensity within the vibration. As the air littered with debree thinned out and the dust settled Naruto stood there, sitting on the ground in a meditative stance, his kamigan pulsating as a barrier or golden light surrounded Naruto's body, a protection jutsu that from Itachi's perspective placed Naruto in a completely different reality, his attack passing through as if Naruto vanished to another dimension entirely. Itachi smiled to himself and closed his eyes, putting his hands down.

"Naruto you are truly worthy of the Hikari Clan's Legacy. Only I, your father, one of the Five Kages, or Madara himself could have defended against one of my ultimate techniques without a scratch on them... Very well come with me Naruto, but before we begin your training there's a special guest I'd like you to meet..."

Itachi finished with a sly grin on his face as he walked toward the back of the temple, Naruto followed behind his master wondering what on earth or in hell Itachi had in mind when he said he had a surprise for Naruto... Naruto could only hope it wasn't something that would be painful... After a moment a dark cloaked woman appeared before Itachi.

"You brought the girl Number One?"

Itachi asked the woman with a strange calmness and seemingly emotionless tone of voice. Itachi's agent referred to as Number One nodded and moved aside, Hinata standing there with a smile on her face, one of confusion on Naruto's face.

"It's good to see you again Naruto-kun..."

Hinata said in a struggling tone between being casual yet extremely shy both at once.

I worked REALLY hard on this chapter and wrote it from scratch within a few days and I'm very proud of myself so I hope you enjoyed the result of my hard work, I'll write the next chapter as soon as what happens next in the story comes to me. Anyway Review If you care! Peace! - DL555