Naruto Shippudden:
Legend of the Death Goddess
By:
Skylight96
Chapter 20:
Truth reveals…
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Naruto slowly opened his eyes, looking up the raven man in front of him with a warm smile, parting his lips to say the words he longing to say to his brother but stopped when suddenly two familiar faces burst through the door, "What's the meaning of this?" asked Homura as he entered the Hokage offices with his companion Koharu by his side.
Naruto closed his mouth and stood up straight as he bowed in respect, "Greetings. Utatane-san, Mitokado-san" bowing slightly as he looked up to face the elders with seriousness in his eyes, "Is there anything I could help you?"
"Hokage-sama! Why are these S-rank missing nin doing in your office?!"
Naruto flinched slightly at the rough tone but silenced as he glanced sideway to the silvered jounin before parting his lips to answer their question, "I received a report from the ANBU that they were trespassing Konoha bonder" motioned to the four members of the Team Taka, "So I order Hatake-san and his team to capture them for trespassing"
Koharu snorted and turned her attention to the Uchiha in disgust, "Good. Then we finally being able to execute him" smirked the elder sadistically at the missing nin.
"I'm sorry, Utatane-san but I have to disagree with you"
That caught the elders attention along with the other in the room, "What?" frowned Homura as he faced the young Hokage, "What do you mean you disagree?" demanding an answer for his statement earlier.
"Like I said before, Mitokado-san. I disagree of the action take for this missing nin"
Koharu stunned and glared at the Hokage, "What?! This is missing nin we talking about. Not to mention that they-" pointing to the four missing nin beside her, "are International criminal! What would the Kages do if they know you betray them by hiding them in Konoha?!"
Naruto silenced and sighed, raising his head up as he stood his ground, "I perfectly understand the consequence but I believe everyone should give a second chance" eyes determined as he looked deeply into their eyes, "Every human makes mistake but it doesn't mean they criminal. Nobody in this world is free from making mistake, even you and me make mistake in our life but we still here, having another chance to make our life better and used the mistake we made as a reminder. A reminder to better ourselves and never makes the same mistake again in the future"
Kakashi eye softened at the words spoken by his student and smiled, glanced sideway to the silenced Uchiha who eyes streaming with tears as he hide it with his bang, covering the tears from the world for his brother words. The elders silenced and looked up to meet his eyes, eyes that fill with nothing but hope and warmth with a small smile adorned on his lips. Homura sighed in defeat and parted his mouth to said something but stopped by the sound of other loud but slowly footstep, "I know that Jinchūriki boy will be a nuisance" Danzo, one of the elders said as he entered the room with his staff supporting his injure legs years ago, "letting the curse Uchiha back to our village" glaring at the young Hokage in front of him in disgust.
Naruto silenced, eyes glaring angrily at the leader of ROOT, "Danzo…" addressing his name as cold emitted in his voice, "I didn't expect you to be here" supressed the hiss that eager to be out from his throat at the bastard, "I hope I didn't disturb you with your 'job'"
"Hn. shut it brat! I always knew you're a nuisance to the village. I wonder how you could be the Hokage! You just the same like the Sandaime-!"
"THAT'S ENOUGH!"
A voice cut in between the two and turned to see Tsunade with her assistant entering the room, "Can't you see there's a kid in this room?!" angrily for the adults actions that scared the hell out of the little boy who hugged his knees in scare as he looked up to his father with teary eyes. Naruto blinked and turned to the boy on the couch guiltily, "Oh, Ryuu-chan" said the blonde Hokage as he went in front of his son and gathered him in his arms, "I'm sorry, Ryuu-chan. There's nothing to be afraid of. We were just discussing that's all" rubbing the back of the boy soothingly as he glanced back at them, "Daddy sorry Ryuu-chan…" he murmured as he turned back to his boy, "Everything will be alright"
Koharu and Homura who saw the affection between the Uzumaki couldn't help but silenced, eyes softened in guilt as they sighed, "Hokage-sama!" called Koharu as the blonde turned his head towards her, "We agree to give the Uchiha a second chance" earning a soft smile from the Hokage, "But, he won't go unpunished"
Naruto lifted the boy in his arms and nodded in understand, "Alright. I hereby declare that two weeks from now is the trial of Uchiha Sasuke" looking around the people inside his office with seriousness in his eyes, "Until then, the Team Taka will be sent to the dungeon until further notice"
"Hai, Hokage-sama!"
"Wait a minute!" argued Danzo as he glared at the Hokage, "Is that all?! You can't be serious about give the cursed Uchiha a second chance" turned his eye to the elders beside him, "Why are you letting the Jinchūriki to change your decision to execute the Uchiha?!"
"Safe you protest to the court, Danzo-san"
"BUT-"
Homura sighed and turned away, "There's nothing to discuss here. Let the boy rest with his son and we can argued it in the trial two weeks from now" earning a nodded from Koharu as they walked away from the office tiredly. Danzo gritted his teeth in anger and turned to the Hokage with disgust, "Just you wait, Jinchūriki! I'll make you pay!" with that he walked away, leaving the Hokage alone with the others inside the less occupied office.
Naruto sighed and turned to the Head Medic nin of Konoha Hospital with a small smile, "Thanks ba-chan" thanking her for the rescue minutes ago. Tsunade snorted and crossed her arms on her busty chest, "What do mean thank you, brat?! You're the one who cause trauma to your boy!" glaring slightly at the Hokage. Naruto blinked and frowned at the words, "Hey! It's not my fault the elders trying to cut my throat with their words" pouting at the former Hokage which earning a chuckle from Shizune for his antics, "Anyway, why are you guys here? Is there something wrong with Hikari?" he couldn't help but asked, eyes flashing with concern for his love.
Seeing the love on his face, Shizune eyes softened as she gives her little brother a smile, "Don't worry, Naruto. Hikari's fine. We were just wondering why you haven't visited her yet. You usually there at the time like this" pointing to the clock on the wall that shows six in the evening.
Naruto blinked in surprised of how much time had passed for his discussion and sighed, "Yeah, well I probably won't able to visit her today" eyes saddened at the thought and hoisted the already sleepy boy in his arms, "I might as well go home now and put Ryuu in bed. It's going to a hell of a morning tomorrow" chuckling as he walked towards the hanger to take his Hokage robe, opening the door as he let those two walked out from his office and closed it as he walked down the hallways towards the exit of the Hokage tower.
Unknown to him, a grey eye silently watched the Rokudaime of Konoha walking down the hallway and disappeared around the corner as he headed towards the exit. A slightest evil smile adorned on the figure lips as it disappeared into the darkness…
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The moon shined through the small window of the white room, occupied by the beautiful maiden who slept by the curse casted upon her, leaving her lifeless in the world as her soul trapped inside her body. The door of the room opened, echoed loudly inside the empty room as the sound of soft footstep entered, closing the door softly as it walked towards the figure sleeping on the bed. The figure raised its hand which held a sharp kunai and aimed for her throat, a huge maniacally grin adorned on the figure and slammed the kunai down to her…
Clank!
The figure hissed and turned to the culprit in the shadow, eyes glaring in anger as the culprit walked out from the shadow, revealing its true face, "I should have thought it would be you… Danzo" murmured Naruto, stopping as the light revealed their faces. Danzo silenced, standing up straight as he glared at the young Hokage in disgust, "You…" he hissed, taking out another kunai from his sleeve and attacked the boy.
Clash!
Naruto gritted his teeth and pushed the elder away as he stood in front of his goddess possessively, protecting her from the evil bastard. Danzo landed several feet away from the blonde and dashed forwards, clashing their kunai together inside the empty room which causing the blonde to stumble a little to bed but stood his ground to maintain his balanced, Shit! He cursed, holding tightly to the kunai in his hand as he tried to push him away, If we kept fighting here, Hikari-
"Wind Technique: Wind of wave!"
A gust of strong wind burst through the window, knocking the elder away from the blonde Hokage as he turned around with a huge grin on his face, "About time, Boss!" he exclaimed in relief and turned back his gazed to the old geezer in front of him as the figure landed softly beside him. Another Naruto appeared beside him as he glanced back to the maiden lying on the bed, "Bunshin, go and get her out of here. It's going to be nasty"
The clone nodded and gathered the goddess in his arms as he leaped away, carrying her to the Uzumaki apartment located on top of the Hokage Mountain. The Real Naruto looked up, eyes changing into red as he dashed forwards with his katana.
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The sound of clashing weapon echoed inside the dark room, creating a spark of light in the darkness as they dashed forwards to attack. Naruto jumped backwards and landed on the wall as he placed two finger on his lips, murmuring "Wind Technique: Dragon of Wind" creating a gust of nasty wind which took shape as a dragon and attacked the elder. Danzo stabbed his Katana on the floor and quickly made several hand sign, "Earth Technique: Earth walls" as tall earth wall stood in front of him to block the wind.
A huge blast shaking the floor which cause the blonde to land on the ground and glanced around the place with a grimace on his face, Ops, I better get this fight away from the hospital or else ba chan would after my head again, face pale as he remember the nasty punch from the former Hokage and shook his head to dismiss the thought, I guess I have to use the Flying Thunder Technique and flashed us away from here, he thought, taking out the seal kunai in his hand and threw it towards the leader of the ROOT, purposely miss the aim as he flashed beside him, grabbing his shoulder as they flashed away before a group of ANBU arrived at the scene.
With that they arrived to the Northern side of Konoha and pushed elder away from his grasp to distance himself from the Sandaime old friend. Danzo gritted his teeth and lifted up his right bandage eye to reveal something underneath, a Sharingan. Naruto eyes narrowed at the curse eye as he gripped the kunai tightly in his hand, just as I thought, he's the cause of the Uchiha assassination, dashing as they exchange kicks and punches towards each other.
Landing gracefully on the ground beneath him, Naruto looked up and throw his seal kunai as he made his famous T-sign with his hand, "Kage bushin no jutsu" creating a huge wave of thousands and thousands kunai flying towards him, trying to use his Flying Thunder God technique on him. Unfortunately, Danzo swung his katana fill with wind chakra and created an enormous gust of wind, deflating the kunai approaching him. The Hokage gritted his teeth as he raised his arms to block the force and lower his body to see him, "Earth technique: Pool of sand" slamming his hand on the ground as the solid ground changes into a terrain of sand, swallowing the elder helpless in the quick sand.
Danzo gritted his teeth and looked up as he sensed a strong wind chakra, seeing a huge orb of wind swirling tremendously in the blonde as he met with a pair of gold eyes with orange rings on his eyes lid, the Sage mode, "Wind Technique: Rasenshuriken!" he shouted and threw the orb, eyes closing as the orb hit the man with a shriek sound of human screaming in pain echoed inside the forest and slowly died out, leaving nothing but crater at the bloody scene.
Naruto opened his eyes, revealing his usual deep blue eyes and looked up to the scene before him in grief and slightly guilt as he saw the body of the leader ROOT leader lying lifeless on the ground with blood pouring out from his body creating a pool of blood underneath him. He emotionlessly walked to the body and kneed down as he turned the body to see his face, his right eye bleeding which mean the Sharingan on his eye was destroy, being overused or purposely destroy to hide its true power.
He had heard the story of Uchiha Shisui, the Uchiha that was 'claimed' to be killed by Uchiha Itachi. But the truth is beyond that, it was Danzo who took his right eye, using it to achieve immortality because of its power, the Kotoamatsukami, the jutsu that control people minds and manipulate it. A forbidden jutsu that could only own by the Uchiha Shisui himself. Knowing how dangerous his eyes were, he gave his left eye to Itachi, saying that he wished Itachi to continue their fight to bring peace again to their beloved Konoha.
Naruto closed his eyes, praying to the god so that the Uchiha soul will rest in peace after defeating the killer for his eye. Opening his deep blue eyes, he looked up to the dark skies and sighed as he stretched out his hand to it, flashing a bright light to signal his ANBU team about his whereabouts. In an instant, five ANBU shunshined into the clearing, bowing slightly at their leader as the Captain of ANBU walked closer to the slightly injured Hokage, saying, "Hokage-sama. Is something wrong?"
Naruto stood up and dusted his clothes with a light grin, "Ah, Bear-kun! Nice weather we having isn't it?" grinning sheepishly at his Captain ANBU as pulled out his scroll from his pouch behind him, "Would you mind taking this scroll to Tsunade? I want full reports of this body early in the morning" the goofy grin instantly vanished as he kneed down and made several hand sign to seal the body inside the scroll, "Oh! Before I forget, please inform all the Head of the Clan and the elders that I would like to make an urgent meeting first thing in the morning. Said to them it's classified" handing the already sealing scroll to his ANBU, "I trust you to deliver it safely and informed the Head of the Clan about this meeting"
"Hai! Hokage-sama!"
"Good! Dismissed!"
With that the five ANBU vanished into the thin air, leaving the Rokudaime alone inside the destroyed clearing as he looked up towards Konoha with a pout, "Man, now I regret killing that bastard for making me to face another boring meeting in the morning" grumbling to himself as he flashed back to his apartment.
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"YOU WHAT?!"
Naruto sighed for the tenth time this morning and nodded grimly at the question, "Yes, folks! I kill Danzo. Happy now?" he asked, giving them a deadpanned face as he crossed his arms on his broad chest with a pout on his lips.
Nara Shikaku sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose tiredly, "How troublesome…" he murmured, looking up to the young with disbelieve, "May we know the reason of this incident?" he asked, linking his hands onto of the desk as he looked deeply into the blonde eyes, "Is it something to do with the village or just impulse?"
Hearing the words spoken by the Head of Nara clan, his usual deep blue eyes darken, gazing coldly into the raven eyes, "He attacked a civilian" he said, leaning forwards as he placed his hands on the desk and linked it as he placed his chin on top of it, "Beside that he also betray Konoha"
"What do you mean 'betray Konoha'?" asked Homura as he leaned forwards with interest.
Naruto closed his eyes and parted his lips, "From the search I've been conducting, it seems my estimation is correct" opening his eyes with seriousness flashed inside his eyes, "He's the master mind of the attacks in Konoha. Remember the secret organisation called ROOT? The organisation that disbanded by the Sandaime himself? It actually still exist, working inside the shadows leaded by Danzo" pushing the folder of his search towards the elders along with the copy to others Head Clan, "5 years ago, when I was in a mission with Team Kakashi. Sai, one of my comrades had been order by Danzo to give our ANBU files to Orochimaru as a… gift for his help to attack Konoha" explaining the situation as they review the folder.
"It can't be"
"That's right" cut the Godaime, leaning forwards as she glanced around the meeting room with serious face, "I was shock to see our ANBU files in the hand of the shinobi" sighing slight as she looked at the elder with serious face, "So, after that I've change all the security codes to prevent any more of our Intel fall in the hand of our enemies" supporting by a nodding Hokage who agreed with her words.
The others silenced, falling deeply into their thought as they looked at the folder, thinking about the betrayal of the elder, Danzo. Naruto looked up and glanced around to see their face, face which hold despairs and guilt as he continued his point, "Not only that, he also the real killer of our beloved shinobi, Uchiha Shisui, the Body Flicker. Based from the report, it said that Shisui was killed by none other than Uchiha Itachi, the Uchiha prodigy. But the truth was different from what they wrote, it was Danzo who kill him or rather took his right eye and transplanted into him" pushing another folder to them, the result of his autopsy, "It said here that he transplanted a Sharingan on his right eye, replacing the eye he lose during the second war of Shinobi with the right eye of Uchiha Shisui" eyeing his speechless council as they review the other folder.
Hyuuga Hiashi silenced and placed down the folder as he looked up to meet the young Hokage eyes, "I don't understand. Of all member of the Uchiha clan, why would he steal the boy eye? What so special about it? Even the Byakugan have the similarity to the Sharingan" he couldn't help but asked, curiosity circling around his mind as he waited for the boy answer.
Naruto nodded in agree for the statement as he slowly closed his azure gaze, "That's right. It's true that Byakugan from the Hyuuga clan and Sharingan from the Uchiha clan have the same similarity but… the eyes own by the Uchiha Shisui are the most dangerous eyes among the Uchiha. He's the first among the Uchiha who managed to unlock Mangekyo Sharingan at a young age. Every Uchiha have their own types of Sharingan. For Shisui, his Mangekyo Sharingan called the Kotoamatsukami. A technique that can control and manipulated people mind that fall into his crimson eyes" opening his azure eyes as he looked up to the council, narrowing his eyes as he faced them, sending shivered down to their spine at the cold azure gazed, "A forbidden technique that only Uchiha Shisui himself able to master"
"What about the Third Shinobi War? Is he also involved with it?" asked the silent Aburame Shibi at the young Hokage. Remembering the incident happened during the Third War where one of the legendary Shinobi called the Red Roses of Konoha had betrayed Konoha by delivering the Konoha defends Intel to Iwa.
Earning a nod from the Rokudaime, Aburame Shibi silenced as he let the young Hokage continued, "That's right. We finally been able to find proves or rather witness of the crime. A man who name I wouldn't be spoken his name had come to me in person to speak about the incident that cause Uchiha Hikari to be labelled as Konoha traitor for the crime her didn't commit" closing his eyes in deep thought, hiding the relief in his eyes, "Because of that, I hereby declare that Uchiha Hikari is release from the accusation and now free from the crime she never commit" slowly opened his azure gazed as he watched their reaction for his statement, "Is there any objection for the statement I've made?"
The other silenced, hanging their head to hide the guilt in their eyes as they agreed with the statement delivered by him. Uncomfortable with the heavy silenced, Naruto sighed and stood up from his chair, stretching his stiffen muscle with a huge grin, "Oh, well! Since the meeting is over and all. I guess I'll go for my morning tour around the village!" chirped the Rokudaime happily, earning a weird looks from his council for his suddenly cheerful behaviour, "Ok! I'm out! Later!" flashing away from the meeting room using his Flying Thunder God technique. Sakura blinked and instantly growled, eyes burning with anger as she shouted, "BAKA! NARUTO! DON'T WALK AWAY WITHOUT FINISH YOUR GODDAMN PAPERWORK!"
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A/N: There you have it. Chapter 20 of LDG. I don't know about you but I think I'm starting to lose myself. Just joking. So… hm… I don't know what to say about this chapter… hm… I guess I leave it to you then. Please review for further chapter of LDG. This is Skylight96 signing off.