Naruto: The puppet King.
Chapter 14.
Kitsune's den, Naruto's private apartment.
Naruto sat in his study, books and scrolls surrounding him, on each of the scrolls were different designs of seals, but different, they were known as runes. Naruto has been pouring over them for over 3 years, doing his absolute best to study them and memorize them, the kyuubi being of great help.
So far, Naruto has exceeded the demons expectations, taking the rune study beyond anything he would have imagined, of course, seeing as what Naruto planned on using them for, it was understandable.
3 days ago the kyuubi had agreed to take Naruto to the first body of one of the legendary ninja who created the modern world, this one was known as the Rikudo Senning, or Sage of the Six Paths, the founder of Ninjutsu. He also possessed a bloodline known as the Rin'nigan, which had the ability to control up to several bodies at once. To Naruto, this was considered to be the ultimate form of puppetry, controlling them with his mind, not just chakra.
So Naruto was going over everything he knew, and with Kyuubi's help, trying to find a way to allow Naruto to have the actual bloodline and all its benefits. After all, it's one thing to transfer eyes to yourself, but to implant an entire bloodline was completely different.
Things were going very slowly.
But, other than Naruto going over runes and seals, he has had quite the adventure these past 3 years, especially when he killed the Mizu kage and added him to his collection.
Flashback.
In Mizu no Kuni, Naruto was disguised as a peasant, wearing a ratty cloak and straw hat.
Naruto had come to this miserable ninja village for a twofold purpose. His first piece of business was to head to the cemetery and morgue to see if there were anyone with bloodline limits that could be of use to him as puppets, and the other was to kill the MizuKage for crimes against humanity and genocide.
So far, Naruto has met with little success; most bodies with bloodlines were burned to ashes after death, and sometimes before the person died.
Naruto looked around and took in the poor state of the village. it was run down and ratty, with people looking every which way then running for the nearest alley, afraid of meeting the Mizu Kage or his personal guard. Naruto was disgusted, but things would be better soon enough.
Now came the part that was tricky, the Kage was a nervous paranoid man, he often had his own food tested before eating it, and he always set the bath himself and never slept in the same place twice. But Naruto would get him, he always did.
Naruto had rented a rundown hotel room for a few days, while he waited and planned. After several days, a thought came to him as how to achieve his goal. He thought about a time-delay poison, that way after the food was tested and it came up clean, the MizuKage would ingest it and still die. Sadly, the person that tasted the food would die as well, but one more life could be considered causality.
Later that evening, Naruto snuck into the tower by climbing through the air vent and into the basement. Using a henge, he took the appearance of a mouse and made his way up the stairs and into a hallway.
As he made his way down, he saw a lone Jounin walk into a room on his right, deciding to follow, Naruto found the lone Jounin in the restroom washing his face with what looked to be tired eyes. Naruto quickly canceled the illusion and hit the man on the back of his head, knocking him out. He then took the mans appearance in another henge and hid the body in a bathroom stall.
In his new disguise, Naruto made his way throughout the tower, eventually finding the kitchens. As he made his way through, pretending to look for a snack, he found a slip of paper for the Mizukage's meal, using it; he found the actual meal being prepared.
Using a quick genjutsu, he distracted the chef and quickly poured the time delayed poison inside before making his way out.
1 hour later
The MizuKage sat back in his chair having finished his meal. He licked his lips to savor the flavor of his orange chicken.
Suddenly he felt his body stiffen and his jaw muscles seize up. He tried to flare his chakra to alert his guards, but he soon felt he lacked any form of control over his chakra as well.
He started to panic, then before long he felt a hot, searing pain in his veins as his blood felt like it was n fire, and the fire was on its way to his heart.
Before long, the muscle relaxants faded, and his body fell forward onto the deck, dead.
Naruto walked into the room, sill in disguise as the random Jounin. Making sure the office was clear, he checked the body before sealing it into a scroll, and then he simply walked out. Anybody that looked at him would assume he was carrying a mission scroll, and not the Kage.
Several hours later, outside of Wave country.
Naruto stood in the small forest on the island, going through a series of hand seals to perform the required jutsu, soon, a purple portal opened onto the ground and a wooden coffin slowly rose from it, the portal closing once the coffin was safely on the ground.
The lid fell forward to reveal the body of the MizuKage, who opened his eyes to see Naruto.
"Who the hell are you and how I am alive?" he demanded.
"You are here, because I brought you here. I killed you and brought you back to life for a single purpose, and that is to spend eternity in a place far worse than hell." Replied Naruto, who had started on another set of seals.
As he finished the sky began to darken, and the local animals fled the scene as if death itself was upon them, a shimmering of the air cause Naruto and the MizuKage to look up, one in anticipation, the other fear.
As the form of Death appeared Naruto smiled and spoke, "I bring you one last sacrifice for the release of the last soul; I pray he is worthy enough for you."
Death's face looked over the Kage before him before he spoke, "hmmm, his soul is dark, very dark, and so evil. Committed a lot of murders haven't you young Kage? Hmm, you shall be a tasty treat."
Death reached out its hand and grasps the soul of the screaming kage, pulling it forward and swallowing it, while at the same time another soul came forth.
"Our deal is now complete mortal, 4 foul souls for 4 good souls. Do not call me again unless you plan to offer me another soul." Said death as he slowly disappeared.
Once death disappeared the sky returned to normal, Naruto turned his head to look at the last soul, the infamous Yondaime Hokage, Namikaze Minato, and his father.
Minato took a moment to study his son, even in a spiritual form he could feel the power radiating from him, and at the same a form of darkness lurked about him.
"So, you're my father. The one who sealed the fox in me for the sake of an ungrateful village." stated Naruto
Minato lowered his head, "so, they didn't see you as the hero like I thought they would then. I should have known, but I had faith they would. But, please tell me, your life hasn't been all bad has it?"
Naruto looked at as he spoke, "my life was not the most pleasant, but I will admit to finding some form of happiness and satisfaction with it."
Minato nodded before looking to the sky, "my time here is short, and I must ascend now. But I want you to know, that even though I may have sacrificed you for the village, that I and your mother will always love you."
For the first time in a long time, Naruto smiled, "i will. Tell Jiji when you see him that if he peeps on my women I will summon him just to kick his ass."
Minato smiled, before his body dissipated and blew into the sky.
Naruto looked to the sky, and smiled, knowing his promise to release them now complete, he can focus on Madara.
End flashback.
Naruto looked over at the runes covering the table, checking with the Kyuubi to make sure they were correct; he took them and headed off to his sealing chamber.
Inside, he found the naked body of the Sage, making sure to draw the runes carefully; he drew them on the body of the sage, before stripping down himself and drawing the same set of runes.
He lay down next to the sage and channeled chakra and pushed into his runes and the runes on the sage to trigger the reaction.
The room lit as it was flooded with a large, bright light as the runes began their work. Naruto began to scream in pain as he felt part of the sage's DNA being added to his own.
Naruto screamed as his flesh felt like it was burning under a thousand white hot knives, as his eyes changed from their sapphire blue to cold grey ripples.
As quickly as it began, it was over. Naruto laid there, passed out from the pain.
The door opened and Jiraiya walked in with Yugito. He picked up Naruto and carried him out of the room to the infirmary, while Yugito checked the Sage's body before sealing it in a scroll and walking out as well.
Naruto's mindscape.
Naruto sat in front of the Kyuubi's cage, listening intently about the powers and abilities of the Rin'nigan, the demon went on to explain the numerous abilities and how to control them. The one that Naruto was mainly interested in however, was the ability to control multiple bodies at once.
"How is it you know so much about this man's bloodline?" Naruto asked, curious. The demon responded simply with, "we met long ago, rest is not your business."
The kyuubi began talking again, this time about how to control the bodies.
"The thing is because you are splitting your chakra up between 6 bodies, you will not be able to use multiple techniques per body, one body per technique. However, you can use different variations of the techniques. For example, one body could have the ability to control fire, and because it can control fire it can only use fire attacks, that include every fire jutsu just as long as you have the chakra.
Now you're no doubt wondering how to control the bodies, well allow myself to explain. First your body produces natural chakra receivers. Because they are made from your body and your chakra, they can only be used by you. I'm not quite sure how to produce them, but I'm told you just will it and it shall happen.
Back to bodies, in order to get your eyes into the bodies of the bodies, they must have a chakra system, whether it's real or artificial. Once you do so you must actually mold your chakra into the eye sockets of the bodies, the chakra will form on its own and create the eyes, from there you use the chakra receptors and there you go. It takes time to get use to, I could tell stories of Rikudo that would make you laugh, but I won't. "
Naruto took all the information, being careful to make sure he had it memorized correctly before he left.
End mindscape.
Naruto awoke in his bed, his now grey eyes looking at the ceiling hearing a rustling, he turned his head to se Jiraiya sitting there staring at him.
"So, I'm assuming it went well?" asked the toad sage.
"It went as well as can be expected, I now have the bloodline and the knowledge to create the techniques, all which is required is that I practice and master them." Responded the blond.
Jiraiya simply grunted, "well don't you go and try anything now. Your chakra is still recovering from the procedure and anything now would be tantamount to suicide."
Naruto sighed, "I can tell, I can feel my chakra still recovering. Other than that, is there anything else I should be aware of?"
"The last of the refugees are coming in, they are all being screened and so far no one has turned up suspicious, Kimimaru is handling security at the moment. The rest of your defensive systems have come online so we are very well protected now." Stated jiraiya.
Naruto nodded, "very well. I'll leave you in charge of things until I have recovered."
Jiraiya nodded, and then he got up and left to go run the base while Naruto went back to sleep, wishing his chakra would hurry up and reach full capacity.
Wave country.
A young red haired man walked away from the local bar and headed towards the forest. It was not to long before he came across a hidden alcove in a hollowed out tree. Dispelling the genjutsu revealed a hunched back shell with a long metal tailed.
'So, his tail has spread to here as well, his skills with puppets. I eagerly look forward to meeting you Uzumaki Naruto.' Thought Sasori as he lumbered into the night.
A/N: Well that's it, the first official chapter in Part 2 of my saga. Sasori is on the hunt for Naruto, is it for Akatsuki or himself, only time will tell. Also next chapter will deal with Kimimaru; it will deal with his experiences with Naruto in the last saga, as well as during the three year time skip. I will also delve into his mind a bit and his interactions with various characters in this story.
I would also like to say I'm sorry for taking so long to update, but life has been, and will continue to be, a very busy one for me. If its school, family or otherwise, there's something to keep me busy. I will try to update when can. I would also like to thank all the devoted fans to this story, your ideas and kind words and eternal patience with me has kept me going these long months, thank you.