BrainII: Thanks for the honest request, I will see that I will try to balance the story a little better.
Sage's Inheritance
Roles are Finally Set to Fulfil
Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto.
Previously on Sage's Inheritance,
Jiraiya's expression on his face was growing grim, "no regular fires caused these burns on the ground and no ordinary sword caused the trudges in the earth..." The toad sage muttered which got the girls intrigued, "You were fighting the Akatsuki."
While Tsunade and Shizune were confused, Naruto nodded also with a grim look on his face. "Since they were able to find me that easily, it means they are as dangerous as they were said to be."
"Easy there gaki," Tsunade consoled Naruto as he drank the tea that Jiraiya prepared for him on his bedside. "Now tell us what happened, nothing left out." The blond nodded and began.
Hours earlier,
"I shouldn't have slapped her like that, she is someone important to me but she doesn't know it like I never did." Naruto muttered as he sat on his bed in his hotel room to calm down his fury. "I just hope I can count on my Godfather. It will be funny that a thirteen year old Genin proved to be wiser and more mature than the Sennin of Konoha!" Naruto just thought of something that managed to make himself laugh and look forward to sharing it with his grandfather figure. He then heard a knock on his door and went to answer it when he felt something that can't be good, 'There is definitely a chakra signature matching an S-rank ninja but the second one is basically on par with the Biju! There is only one person to match this but why...? It must be them.' Naruto came down a conclusion and yet still went to answer the door to reveal two figures he didn't recognize personality but the one thing that stranded out was how one of them looked like his teammate Sasuke and the other was like a blue skinned shark that walks on two legs.
"Naruto Uzumaki, you are to come with us."
'That is definitely Itachi but why does the Akatsuki want with me...? They must be thinking I still hold Kurama!' Naruto thought and decided to play along, "Sorry, you got the wrong room. I saw a shorty in all orange go down the hall on the third door to the left. Look it up." Naruto then closed the door, created a clone and the both of them hid on both sides of the door just in time when it burst of the hinges.
"The brat got spunk Itachi; can I cut off his legs so he wouldn't escape?" The tallest one spoke in a sadistic tone; this madman must love torturing his victims before killing them.
"No Kisame, we must make sure Naruto-kun is both alive and unscratched; we can't risk the Kyubi's chakra to leak out and alert Jiraiya of the Sennin." Itachi explained stoically.
'So it is Kisame Hoshigaki Aka the Monster of the Mist or more importantly, the Tailless Tailed Beast.' The Narutos thought as they curiously drew lines that seemed to move out on their own to form a circle pattern on where everyone was standing on. Then the blond and clone made their move, 'Fuinjutsu: Rensa Akushon!'
The cloaked pair finally noticed what they were standing on but they were too slow. The four chakra signatures disappeared from the hotel. They all arrived at a clearing a good distance from the town and from any citizen in the line of fire.
"Okay Gaki! Where are you!? I know you are here!" Kisame ranted and Itachi didn't look any different but inside, he was also confused at how Naruto was able to teleport himself, Kisame and Itachi out of the hotel without them seeing it; this kid was a good jutsu inventor. Then the pair heard a sound like diving birds so they looked up to see the sky filled with raining Kunai!
"Dammit!" Kisame cursed as he didn't have the time to use a Suiton so he went to his massive sword in an attempt to block and intercept the kunai while Itachi was going to deflect some of the kunai with one of his own until they noticed that each of the kunai had explosion notes on them! "Double Dammit!" Kisame managed to say when the hail of metal and paper exploded at once!
The explosion was intense and covered a good portion of the clearing yet the townsfolk just heard a loud boom and saw no cloud of fire or smoke. Naruto stood outside the fire range waiting for the smoke to clear; when it did, Naruto something interesting. Covering Itachi and Kisame was something that looked like a human skeleton in a fire red color aura covering it and it looked like Itachi was in the ribcage and Kisame was grasped in the being's left hand.
Naruto noticed that Kisame was marveling this being; like this the first time Kisame has ever seen it in action. Luckily, Naruto sensed the remaining hand in motion with a sword made of fire towards his direction and jumped out of the way. Naruto noticed that the sword had a gourd on the end of the handle; it was like the sword can seal what it pierces and stores them in the gourd.
Naruto then moved to avoid a direct slash from Kisame's sword. The owner sure looked angry since "Dammit Brat! Are you trying to kill me!?" Kisame ranted as he tried to slash and stab Naruto who dodged repeatedly
"Kisame stay back." Itachi said that caused the shark man to grumble and do so; Naruto noticed that the skeleton was a lot more refined, Naruto couldn't even its face through the cloaking. But the real thing was that, in the left hand, was a shield of a regal design. "I know you are strong Naruto-kun, no ordinary ninja can push me to use my Susanoo at full power." Itachi said stoically. "But now you can't beat me, with my Totsuka no Tsurugi that seals anything it touches and my Yata no Kagami that can nullify any technique, I am invincible."
Naruto surprised them by chuckling then turned to laugh, "What is so funny, Gaki!" Kisame maybe a killer but even people like him has honor especially for his partners; Kisame felt that Naruto was laughing at them both.
"It's funny." Kisame was now fuming but Itachi was curious, "Back home, people thought I was invincible since I have covered my bases with various skills and have powerful techniques of my own design in my hands. But even I know that no Shinobi is invincible." Naruto explained until he did something that put uneasiness in the air.
As soon as Naruto faced his open palm towards the sky, the wind moved towards the center to form a sphere and then molded into blades on the side, making the shape of a Fuma Shuriken. "Let's put that 'invincibility' to the test!" Naruto then charged towards Itachi who tried to block the attack with his Yata Mirror and also to copy the jutsu. "Futon: Rasenshuriken!" When the giant star of wind hit the shield, the near limitless attacks Itachi saw with his Sharingan had caused the object to crack.
'Amazing, my Sharingan can't even count how many wind blades that are attacking my Yata Mirror.' Itachi thought until he saw Naruto smirking; instead of throwing the jutsu, Naruto caused both it and Itachi to fly. 'What!?' Itachi had only enough time to move when his Yata mirror shattered completely and the jutsu unleashed a cloud of wind blades; the Uchiha just had enough chakra to pull a Kawarimi with a log.
"Damm! I only heard about the Susanoo in legends but to be able to shatter its Yata Mirror!" Kisame was marveled over the sheer power of Naruto until old reflexes told him to dodge yet no in the right direction,
"Futon: Atsugi!" Naruto caused the air in front of Kisame to rupture and send him flying. "Katon: Zukokku!" Naruto shot a fire storm projectile towards Kisame, who, this time, had the time and chakra to fight back,
"Suiton: Suijinheki!" Kisame molded water into a wall that extinguished the huge fire ball and charged at Naruto. What Kisame couldn't see was the smirk on his opponents' face.
"Doton: Doryuheki!" Naruto commanded a slab of earth in front of him to rise and halted the shark-shaped bullet of water. "Raiton: Gian!" Naruto guided lightning from his mouth through the wall of earth, which was enhanced by the water on the other side, and stabbed Kisame through his shoulder.
"ARRGH! You damm brat!" Even with a wall of solid earth in front of his eyes, Naruto could see the rage in Kisame's eyes as the shark-face charged broken through the earth wall. Naruto couldn't dodge in time for Kisame's giant sword to collide with him, shredding away at his body! "My Samehada doesn't cut! It shreds!"
Despite the loud ranting of Kisame, Naruto heard a low voice that sounded like 'forgive my foolish master.'
"I am going to cut off your legs and arms!" Naruto was knocked out of his thoughts when he made the time to dodge that slice Kisame made with Samehada.
"Fine Kisame, I will play along." Naruto said in confidence and calmness that was only making Kisame even angrier as he dove in for another slice when he felt an incredible pain in his left hand; Kisame turned to see that Naruto had both disarmed him of Samehada and rendered his hand useless!
'He couldn't have been that strong! He would have to use chakra to do it and Samehada...!' Kisame was ranting in his mind until he felt his chest clawed at by a wild animal. A wild animal by the name, Naruto!
"Tora Tsume!" It was like a mad cat sharpening his claws on flesh in a dance-like motion. Kisame tried to hit Naruto but he only missed and got clawed at instead. The blood ballet ended when Naruto halted, kicked Kisame in chest while missing the wounds, and jumped into the other direction when Kisame heard a single word filled with malice,
"Amaterasu." Fires appeared as soon as word was said but as Naruto looked closer, the fires were not of a red color anywhere, just ominously black like those said to be ever burning in hell. "Kisame we are wasting time. For the last time, Naruto-kun, you are to come with us." Itachi sternly said to the blonde who just ignored him and preformed a fire seal on the flames.
Then Naruto stood up and moved a pace even Itachi could barely catch to the spot between each of the pair. Seals with the kanji for 'water' were activated and formed over Naruto to shape a replica of the blonde facing the other way. "Futon: Rasengan." The original Naruto molded wind into a sphere-shape typhoon, "Suiton: Hahonryū." While the replica gathered the left over water to form spiraling waves around the palm of its hand. "Gufū Suika no Jutsu!" The two elemental attack formed together to unleash a hurricane of sharpen wind and ravishing water that fiercely attack Itachi and Kisame.
Itachi managed to Kawarimi with a log to where Kisame halted the attack on his side with a Doryūheki in just the nick of time. Even though he was exhausted, Naruto could sense the two sages plus their companions arriving and that his two opponents were now panicking and left in a Shunshin before the reinforcements arrived.
End of Flashback.
"That was quite a story, gaki." Jiraiya commented as soon as Naruto finished, "But why didn't you call us earlier?"
"It's a gift that even I don't understand but I can listen to people's heart and thought even at a distance so I always know what is coming my way and what to do about it." Naruto explained that left his audience dumbfounded; such a talent or gift was treasured and sought out by countless ninjas in order to be 'invincible'. "You two," Naruto suddenly pointed towards the two sages in the room, "have been misreading and mistreating your own feelings for each other and finally you were able to enjoy a moment together; I am not the type to ruin that after so many years." Everyone was touched, especially the two sages for how Naruto thinks of them and their feelings. "Besides, those two taking me will be a waste of their time." Naruto muttered down his throat but whatever anyone heard it didn't matter as Tsunade and Jiraiya hugged Naruto like a long-lost grandson; it is going to be ironic about this soon.
Later,
It was the evening before the morning at which Tsunade finally agreed to return to Konoha. It took Jiraiya filling the holes in her heart and an irresistible offer to be in charge of Konoha's medical staff and to have her debts thoroughly paid in order to get her to yield. Now, she is on an evening walk she decided to do until she went to bed with Jiraiya; she couldn't help saying that her former teammate smelled rather good and his embrace was rather warm.
Then she saw Naruto walking to his room in the opposite direction, she went over to him to notice the sheets of paper in his hands. "What are those, Naruto-kun?" Naruto jumped to look at Tsunade with eyes of exhaustion and wrecked nerves; anyone would want to go to bed feeling like him.
"I was hoping to tell you tomorrow since I finally finished the last one." Naruto spoke gurglingly. Tsunade knew that she picked a wrong time to ask so she went on but not before she heard this, "Here is something to think over the night with Jiraiya." Tsunade was shocked and yet happy at the same time that Naruto finally called her former teammate by his name for once; she knew this would make Jiraiya dance hysterically and Tsunade always found it funny and heart lifting when something makes her laugh. "I have completed a forbidden technique that I am willing to use on five important people in my life once; it is not to be taken for granted."
End of Chapter 21
Author Notes:
*Phew! It is amazing how many chapters I can make by just jotting down the ideas that run through my mind. I do want to make sure the story is smooth going so I will try to find the time to read the reviews. Please no flamers!*
Translations:
Fuinjutsu: Rensa Akushon - Sealing Technique: Chain Action Seal (Personal Creation)
Susanoo - He with the ability to help by all means
Totsuka no Tsurugi - Ten Hands Long Sword
Yata no Kagami - Eight Span Mirror
Futon: Rasenshuriken - Wind Style: Spiraling Sphere Shuriken
Futon: Atsugi - Wind Style: Pressure Damage
Katon: Zukokku - Fire Style: Searing Migraine
Suiton: Suijinheki - Water Style: Water Wall
Raiton: Gian - Lightning Style: False Darkness
Samehada - Shark Skin
Tsume no Tora - Tiger's Claws (Personal Creation)
Amaterasu - Heavenly Illumination
Suiton: Hahonryū - Water Style: Ripping Torrent
Gufū Suika no Jutsu - Typhoon Water Vortex Technique