Naruto trudged the path out of Konoha with haste, beside him were his companions, Uchiha Mikoto and Uzumaki Kushina.
It wasn't easy leaving the village, not when he desperately wanted to see it burn and some of its occupants flayed. Only his lack of strength and small number of allies stayed his hand. He needed more of a stepping stone in this time line, and he was going to get it.
"Naruto-Kun, where are we off to?" Said Mikoto, she was dressed in a ANBU uniform with a katana strapped to her back and a Dragon mask over her face.
"Uzushiogakure no Sato." Was his reply. `I'll need to tell them both about my travel from the future. Less secrets equivalate to more trust. And if I can't trust these two, then I won't be able to trust anyone. `
"Naruto-Kun… I sense someone up ahead of us. High amounts of chakra, Bijuu level in fact. Kurama says its Gobi." Said Kushina also dressed in ANBU attire with a katana strapped to her back only instead of a Dragon mask on her face, she had a Kitsune one.
Before Naruto could respond a flicker of movement in his peripherals brutally derailed his words, shattering his thoughts of procuring people to follow his commands. Naruto frowned, his gaze shifted from Kushina to Mikoto, before sliding across the clearing analytically.
There!
Lingering just beyond the shadows of a looming tree was a shadow. But not just any shadow. A human crouched low and towards the brush, obviously intent on remaining concealed.
Naruto gave no outward sign that anything was wrong, he merely kept his gaze firmly trained on Kushina before dancing to Mikoto discreetly, all the while he strained his chakra senses gifted to him by the juubi to the max, what he sensed made him even more aware of their soon to be attacker invisible in front of them. It was only when Naruto sent chakra to his eyes and activated his Sharingan and caught the light of the hitiate of the hidden man that he permitted a sigh from escaping his lips.
"Naruto?" Mikoto said his name as her Sharingan activated in conjunction to his, honing in on the hidden man's location.
Steam began to billow from his location as all pretence of concealment were shattered. He was an extremely tall man, his frame oozing strength and vitality as the sheer weight of his chakra saturated the clearing. He was heavily armoured, clad in red tiles that spanned his entire frame. Behind him on his back was a furnace which was emitting steam in droves. His light brown eyes assessed them before he glided down from the tree so he was in front of them a respectable distance away.
"Uchiha Naruto. By order of the Tsuchikage, I must ask you to surrender yourself to me." Said the man, his deep voice just being heard over his armour that covered his face.
Naruto's eyes widened as he caught the chakra leaking from the man. "Mikoto, Kushina! Shield yourselves, the very air is acidic!"
As soon as he finished speaking, he saw Mikoto's Sharingan twist and turn, morphing into the shape of an obsidian five-armed Fūma Shuriken set in a blood-red background. A bleached white Susano'o covered her form from head to toe, skeleton at first before she fed more chakra to it, causing it to gain a sinew of flesh and muscle. Its protective embrace shielding her from Han's boil release's corrosive properties, although her Susano'o didn't remain unharmed, it began to melt and deform.
Meanwhile Kushina was enshrouded in frothing malice. A red haze draped over Kushina's vision as her eyes became slitted. The Kyubbi's chakra protected her from the brunt of Han's jutsu as it moulded over her body like a second skin. She felt the hateful chakra roiling around her, twitching in anticipation of slaughter to be had.
Naruto merely used the Rinnegan and drained the residual boil release chakra in the air from reaching him. He then sent that chakra to his left hand, where in conjunction he formed a Rasengan. He intermixed the two together to create a new breed of Rasengan.
"Chō-Fūtton Rasenshuriken!" Naruto said darkly as the orb of destruction in his hand made a whistling noise, ready to be thrown and smite his enemies. He arched his hand back and lobbed it with all his might, his aim true as it careened through the air homing in on Han's position.
BOOM!
The resulting effect was outstanding. The force of the Rasenshuriken completely disintegrated trees and a massive depression a crater wide was formed where Han had stood across them from the clearing.
"You beat him?" Said Mikoto her Mangekyō Sharingan moved around her eyes as she attempted to figure out if they had won or not.
"He hasn't." It was Han, unruffled and unhurt as he crouched dead centre in their triangle formation. Of Naruto leading and Mikoto and Kushina making up the rear. One of his hands touched Kushina's corrosive chakra cloak whilst his foot smashed against Mikoto's weakened chakra construct.
"Funsuiken" Han increased his chakra temperature to boiling levels as he used that to seamlessly augment his punch sending Kushina flying.
"Fungōkyaku" He also increased the chakra temperature around his leg as well, rapidly increasing its ramming capabilities. As soon as his foot connected to the Susano'o it destroyed it quite thoroughly as it cracked in large margins causing Mikoto to skid away, out of sight.
Now because Naruto was in front of him and Han's back was to him, he manipulated the steam furnace behind his Jōki no Yoroi and sent a plethora of hot vapour to create a cloud of obstruction. Thereby preventing Naruto's Rinnegan to penetrate it.
"Shinra Tensei" Naruto's Rinnegan glowed a dark purple as he blew the steam away only to see that Han had disappeared as well.
His senses screamed danger and he only just had the foresight to duck a blow that if had struck him, would have taken his head off.
"Why are you doing this?" Said Naruto as he fought hand to hand with the giant man, his hands starting to blister due to the sheer heat emanating from the close proximity he shared with the man.
"Katon: Gōkakyū no Jutsu!" Mikoto came out of nowhere, as she breathed in quite deeply before launching an enormous fireball at the masked Iwa nin who Naruto held him in place there as the fireball approached before jumping away from harm. His hand burning due to the potent steam.
Han held the snake handsign which was synonymous for Doton ninjutsu and changed the composition of earth he spat from his mouth to protect him from the fire sent at him by Mikoto. He palmed the newly created earth that was as hardened as metal before sending it at them both.
Chains coalesced together to create a uniformed front as they coiled around the airborne earth wall and tightened against it, causing it to explode in a debris of earthen chunks that rained down from the heavens. Kushina landed beside Naruto and Mikoto as they stared down Han.
Kushina weaved through hand signs at a fast pace and intoned loudly "Raiton: Jibashi" she slammed her palms on the ground as an electric wave burst forth from her position. Only it wasn't the normal blue that denoted it as a lightning technique. It was crimson red. The intermixed chakra of the enhanced kyuubi technique shocked Han as his skin blistered and the smell of singed hair wafted into their noses.
Only it was a clone, droplets of mud cascaded down where Han had stood as he substituted himself.
"Meisaigakure no jutsu" Han disappeared from existence but in fact made himself invisible to the naked eye. He had practised this jutsu with Ōnoki who had learnt it from Mū an amazing sensor. This caused Han's skill with the jutsu to rival that of Mū, the second Tsuchikage. Where he was utterly invisible except for the extremely small air current distortion that would happen.
Mikoto's left mangekyō Sharingan began to spin rapidly. "I'll find him Naruto. Raijin!" From the mangekyō Sharingan which suddenly began to bleed, a large stream of golden-white lightning shot out and sped towards the invisible Han at the speed of light. Han's eyes widened considerably as he was shocked by the divine lightning, the speed at which Mikoto's technique was cast prevented any sort of substitution to occur, thus it was the real Iwa nin and not a clone.
Kushina then sprung chakra chains from the undercurrent of her feet, they snaked around Han's waist and prevented him from mounting an iota of a defence as his chakra as well as his Biju's was suppressed.
Han glared at the trio who simply smiled down at him. It was then that Han took a step back, noticing his Sharingan. (He had reverted it from his Rinnegan to his Sharingan)
"You really are an Uchiha?"
"Wrong. I'm an Uzumaki. And so much more powerful than an Uchiha." As the Iwa assassin watched, the three tomoe began rapidly spinning until his red eyes had a black spiral starting from the pupil that encompassed his entire iris. (Imagine the elder son of the Rikudō Sennin's eyes, the Uchiha ancestor)
Han struggled against the bonds that restricted him as Naruto grinned down at him, and spoke one word. "Inari." The Gobi Jinchūriki suddenly froze in place, as an ethereal fox of purple energy wrapping its tail around his frame and he could nothing. It was a powerful genjutsu of the EMS. Naruto was actually using the Final Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan presently. It was what happened when he used all five of his Mangekyō (Sasuke, Itachi, Tobi, Madara, and Izuna) at once.
Naruto calmly walked up to the immobile Gobi Jinchūriki and placed a hand on his forehead. "Ningendō." Naruto pulled out and absorbed not only Han's but also the Gobi's soul.
When he turned around after deactivating his Eternal Mangekyō Sharingan, the black-haired teen saw a grinning Kushina and a contemplating Mikoto.
"How did you do that Naruto? We've been trying to kill him for ages and you just touched him and he died!" Said Mikoto analysing him with mangekyō Sharingan.
"Mikoto-chan, I have more than a few tricks up my sleeve." He walked closer towards them both and saw the slight glare in the ravenette's eyes, and Naruto grinned. "Although… I don't mind sharing secrets with my family. Uchiha Mikoto." The black-haired teen took a step back "After all, what kind of clan head of the Uchiha would I be otherwise?
He grabbed both Kushina and Mikoto by their waists as a vortex sucked them up in a singularity.
***Break***
Mikoto and Kushina looked around to see an ostensibly endless void that spanned far into the distance, the location they had been warped to seemed to be composed from an innumerable amount of randomly arranged and differently sized rectangular prisms, which they were both standing on.
Another singularity appeared ejecting out a smirking Uzumaki turned Uchiha Naruto.
"Um… Naruto-kun… What is this place?" Said Kushina.
Naruto turned to face them and smiled warmly. "This here girls is my pocket dimension. We are all alone, away from prying eyes which is useful for what I have planned."
"And what is that?" Said Mikoto.
"I'm going to finally start my Paths." Naruto activated his Rinnegan as he spoke, his hands weaving through signs.
"Paths? What does that mean?"
"It allows me to control and use bodies in relation to how many paths my Rinnegan can access, I have complete and utter dominance over seven out of nine aspects that my eyes can afford me. They're Tendō, Shuradō, Ningendō, Chikushōdō, Gakidō, Jigokudō and Gedō. The other two paths need to be further developed. I can also bestow anyone of my paths through chakra receivers to dead shinobi."
Kushina and Mikoto stared flabbergasted at the sheer wealth of power one man possessed. That man who was more god then human finished his hand sign movement, clasping his hands together, he intoned "Onmyouton: Banbutsu Sōzō!" (Yin-Yang Release: Creation of All Things) In a flash of light, Han's body came out of nothingness on the floor and Naruto had his hand glowed white as he continued, placing it on Han's head. "Ningendō: Saisai!" (Human Path: Rebirth) Yagura's entire body radiated white light and then he moved.
Before he could do anything, Naruto signalled Kushina, who placed her palms to the ground, causing chains to wrap Han tightly to the floor. He opened his eyes finally and looked around. "Where am I?" He spotted Naruto, Kyuudou Rinnegan in his eyes, and asked "I thought I was dead?"
Naruto smiled. "You were. But I recreated your body and gave you your soul back. Without the Gobi. So now you have a choice, Han-san. I can let you go, and you become a missing-nin once someone finds out you are still alive, or you work for me as one of my Paths. I can give you one of the abilities of my Rinnegan, and all you have to do is become one of my new agents."
"I'll die if I don't accept, won't I?" Naruto shrugged.
"No idea. I can let you go free, or I can have you as my agent, and you'll be able to get revenge on Iwa for giving you a mission you had no hope of claiming victory on." At that point, Han smiled.
"I'm in." Naruto nodded and made some small chakra rods.
"I'll give you the abilities of my Perception Path, the Kandōu. It will allow you to see into the future, only briefly at first, increase your senses, plus your chakra sensory abilities, allow you a sixth sense of seeing any residual chakra or spirits and lastly… you can never be put under a genjutsu again." Han grinned at that.
Even through the pain he felt as Naruto pierced his face with chakra rods, he never lost his smile…
***Break***
Naruto, Kushina and Mikoto were on a boat to Uzushiogakure. As the boat continued to sway back and forth rocking through hazardous weather conditions, Mikoto and Kushina both snuggled into his body heat as they looked green in the face. Naruto couldn't help but chuckle at their plight as his hands trailed through Red and black hair respectively.
"I-It's no-not funny N-aruto-Kun!" Mikoto and Kushina said simultaneously scolded him.
"It actually is." Naruto told his lovers amusedly as they both tried to hold their breakfast down. Naruto then felt chakra in the nearby ocean, looking in the direction, he saw the whirlpools Uzu was famous for. He looked to his right where the captain now stood.
"I pray you are an Uzumaki, for if not… we'll never get past this point." Naruto merely grinned in response and pointed his palm at the swirling waters.
"Gakidō: Rongu-Enkin Kyuuin!" (Preta Path: Long-Distance Absorption Seal) Using his Kyuudou Rinnegan, Naruto drained all of the chakra from the whirlpools around the ship, allowing safe passage into Uzushio.
Sajin the boat captain was wide-eyed at the display. Even he knew that that was an act of immense power. Soon after, they arrived at the half-destroyed docks of Uzushiogakure no Sato, and Naruto, Mikoto and Kushina jumped from the boat to the land. "You can leave now. My Kamui will allow me to go anywhere I've been, so I can get safely back to Nami later. When I get back in two weeks, I will pay you for your services. You'd best move on though… those whirlpools will reform in three hours." The captain nodded and ordered his sailors to turn the boat around, quickly leaving the island.
The Uzumaki turned Uchiha and his two lovers made their way through the ruined village of their clan, Kushina with sadness at the fate of their prestigious family, Naruto with anger at the power of greed. And Mikoto with calculated fury. He would make those damn Nations pay. Kiri, Kumo and Iwa, and of course Konoha for not aiding their ally.
With a heavy heart, the trio made their way through the halfway-demolished buildings, skeletal remains of Uzu, Kiri, Kumo, Iwa nin, and scattered remnants of kunai, shuriken and blades.
The blonde led his lovers straight to the Uzukage Tower, which he opened for them. They made their way up the sole building that was intact out of the entire village. The three of them could sense the seals all over the building as they walked steadily through the floors to the top of the building, up to the Uzukage Office.
It looked to still be in good condition. The floor was oak, walls marble, and ceiling steel. The desk and chair both lacked any dust and the walls were covered in sealing arrays. Atop the wooden desk were what remained of the last of the paperwork the Uzukage would've had to finish.
"How is this place not rotting after all this time?" Kushina asked.
"The genius of seals in an Uzumaki's hands. We are the only clan whose blood literally is fuinjutsu. It comes to us naturally, Kushina-chan. That's why our clan was so powerful. Did you know that there were less than two hundred Uzumaki's on this island, plus a hundred shinobi of other clans and barely fifty non-clan shinobi, and yet… they took down every single Iwa, Kumo, and Kiri shinobi that came to invade. That was the work of fuinjutsu. Every single Uzu shinobi was a Level three fuinjutsu user by the time they were genin, four at chūnin, six at Jōnin, and seven at ANBU. Every Uzumaki was even better, making Level Ten Fuinjutsu Grandmaster by the time they were Jōnin. With so many masters of sealing, they became far more powerful." Mikoto was looking at her Uchiha brethren in awe.
"This village was almost the Sixth Great Village…"
"Which is why it was destroyed. Uzu and Suna were very close, you know. If Uzu became too powerful, they would help Suna, and then would probably overtake all the other villages. Our clan was very strong." Kushina nodded as Naruto went through the paperwork on the Uzukage's desk, simply to see what the last days of Uzu had held.
And there bright as day on that table was a seal that shocked Naruto…
That's a wrap!
AN:
What do you guys think?
How was the fight with Han?
Naruto has finally utilised the Path part of his Kyuudou Rinnegan. A total of eight path alongside him and Mikoto and Kushina, will anyone be safe to contest them? :v
Speaking of paths, who should the other 7 be? Any thoughts?
+ What do you think the hidden surprise was?
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