Chapter 29
Summary: "What would you name him Hokage-Sama?" Sarutobi looked at the baby that was looking right back at him with his small green eyes, what was unusual though was that the eyes of the child held some knowledge hidden in them. Sarutobi smiled at him, and the baby let out a giggle and pulled his beard, a name appeared in his mind, "I think I'll call him Tetsuo, yes that's perfect…Sarutobi Tetsuo."
Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter, Naruto, Ao no exorcist
Tetsuo stood at his father's grave site, today was Asuma's funeral and Tetsuo didn't think he had the heart to bury another one of his family. "I think I get what you were saying now about the importance of protecting your loved ones." He said to the grave, "I never thought I'd see the day I'd have to bury Asuma-nii-san so soon, I still didn't think I'd ever have to bury you even though I called you old on a number of occasions."
There was a steady breeze in the area,
"I have to say that I enjoy being a part of the Sarutobi clan, you sure lived up to your role of village elder. And you were one hell of an awesome father." The breeze grew gentle as it blew against his face, "I just can't believe you guys left me alone to take care of Konohamaru." It was more of 'I can't believe you guys left me alone,' but he added something about Konohamaru so he wouldn't have to accept that his father and now his brother were gone
He had his hand in his black pants pockets as he walked to the funeral site, "I really can't believe you left my nephew without a father, Asuma-nii-san."
As he was walking he remembered something from his childhood that had him smiling.
'A young Tetsuo was about to put on of his older brother's cigarettes in his mouth but was stopped when Asuma snatched it from his hand. "You know you're not supposed to play with my cigarettes." Asuma chastised his little brother as the child's eyes grew watery and a few whimpers came out
Asuma grew panicked as the kid started to cry, he got an idea and pulled a small box out of his pocket. He stuck the small white stick candy in the boy's mouth stopping the sobs. "Try this, it's much better than what I use." He made it seem like a cigarette since Tetsuo was so adamant on imitating him
"Yeah, now I'm just like Asuma-nii-san!" Small Tetsuo cheered, and after that day Tetsuo would always have a candy white stick in his mouth up until the time he met his friends'
And Asuma really was one hell of a brother
-Next day I guess-
Tetsuo was watching Naruto in his training but this time he only had Yamato as an overseer since Kakashi had gone with Asuma's old team to stop the two Akatsuki members, Tetsuo had made Shikamaru promise to get revenge on the one who did Asuma in and the Nara had readily agreed. Tetsuo had to commend Naruto on his training. The boy had successfully added his own chakra nature to rasengan making it more powerful than a regular one.
Tetsuo had thought that learning how to do that as well would be amazing so he sent a couple of his own kage bunshin to go practice and as soon as some made progress, he would know about it. Tsunade stopped Naruto's training with a mission, "I need you to go assist team ten with their pursuit of Akatsuki."
Tetsuo was the first to answer, "Just tell us when and where,"
"The forest of dead trees and immeadiatly, Sai and Sakura will be on your team as well."
"You got it Tsunade baa-chan, we'll get those bastards for what they did to Asuma-sensei." Naruto proclaimed heatedly fisting his hands together
"Go and meet Sai and Sakura at the gate!"
"Right!" All three disappeared from the training grounds at her order and reappeared directly at the gate, "I don't think we'll be able to make it in time to save Kakashi-sensei." Naruto pointed out
"No worries, I gave Kakashi one of my transportation kunai, if he still has it we'll be able to transport to them instantaneously. Everyone grab on," He ordered as his teammates grabbed hands as he grabbed Naruto's. He felt the transport take effect as they were once in the leaf village now they were right in the middle of the battle between Kakashi and the Akatsuki.
The guy that Kakashi was facing had tentacles extending from his body and two masks on either side of his head. "Die…" One mask ignited and the other shot wind as the fire untied with the wind sending a flame burst at them.
"Fuuton: Rasengan!"
"Suiton: Hahonryu!" Yamato combined his water sphere with Naruto's new rasengan creating a collaboration jutsu .
"Gufuu suika no jutsu!" It dispersed the fire blast
"Sorry we're late you guys," Tetsuo greeted the team that looked worse for the wear. He looked at Kakashi and could tell that his teacher had already used too much chakra, Kakashi was always a great ninja the only flaw he had was that his chakra stores were unnaturally low.
"Phew, good timing," Kakashi thanked
"Sakura, Sai0san, Tetsuo, and Naruto too." Ino was immensely grateful they had shown up when they did
"Reinforcements, we're saved." Choji knew better to think that they were out of the woods yet
"This is the first time I've seen you look so uncool, Kakashi." Yamato taunted
"This opponent must be really strong." Tetsuo observed the man's tentacle movement as his mind devised a plan of action
"Another weird one's here, and already beaten up too." It was correct; Naruto's new jutsu training had left him with a few injuries but nothing so major that would keep him from fighting.
"Where's Shikamaru?" Tetsuo asked not seeing the genius anywhere in the formation, he knew that whoever Shikamaru was fighting was the one that killed Asuma
"Fighting with the other enemy at a different location." Choji answered
"Would two of you go to Shikamaru's side. A long distance type and a medical type is best." Kakashi suggested, He summoned Pakkun to help them on their trail
"Sai, Sakura, follow Pakkun's lead and go to backup Shikamaru." Yamato ordered
"Understood!" Both answered before following a retreating Pakkun to Shikamaru's location
As much as Tetsuo wanted to go after the bastard who had killed his brother, he knew that his power was more needed here than there. 'I put the charge of revenge on you Shikamaru, make sure you don't fail.'
"All that happened is the variation I have fore hearts I can take increased." Whatever the enemy was talking about sounded sinister
Naruto stepped forward, "I'll take it from here,"
"Did he complete is?" Kakashi asked referring to Naruto's training
"No, it's about fifty percent." Yamato answered
"I see,"
"However just watch, he's a completely different person than before." Tetsuo commended as Naruto's pupils grew red slits. The Uzumaki started by creating two kage bunshin on either side of him
"Taijuu Kage bunshin, I see, so you're the Kyuubi Jinchuriki." The stitched man observed
"What is the situation and who are we dealing with?" Yamato asked Kakashi
"Two Akatsuki, Shikamaru is dealing with one of them and that's the other one right there. He has the ability to separate himself but each mask has their own heart and can work individually. Those two masks on his shoulders can detach and separate from his body. He had five hearts now he has three left."
"What does that mean?"
"It means we've killed him twice, to defeat him we need to kill him three more times." Kakashi explained, "Also he's a mid0range type that can use all types of nature manipulation."
"Naruto!" Tetsuo called out as Naruto took his start
"Yeah, I heard it all!"
"You can't just go in by yourself!" Ino shouted as the Kage bunshin were caught and destroyed
The real Naruto was actually still in his spot thinking about what his kage bunshin had learned. 'Given his attack speed and fighting style, I'll need at least three kage bunshins as distractions.' Naruto thought
'He started by taking the experience from his kage bunshins and used it as a stimulation…he's really gotten the hang of using them.' Tetsuo could actually see the progress by which Naruto was growing
"He's not just some dumb kid anymore from when you guys first joined the team. He's actually a really strong ninja." A compliment such as that from Yin was something to cherish indeed
Naruto created three more clones and had to help him create he his wind rasengan but it went beyond just the small sphere, it grew into a giant shuriken. "Fūton: Rasenshuriken!" The three Naruto's charged while the one with the rasengan held back, "We're going to decide it with this!"
"I'll help too!" Choji was stopped by Tetsuo
"No, don't get close to Naruto, you'll get hit by it too."
"So this is the Kyuubi Jinchuriki's power, it sure is a monstrous jutsu." The Naruto clones went after the man but were destroyed. Fortunately that left Naruto an opening, but when the rasenshuriken was about to make contact with the Akatsuki's body, it grew smaller and smaller before fizzling out of existence
"It missed," Yamato sweat dropped
"Just like the unpredictable ninja to do something like this!" The two captains and Tetsuo ran to free Naruto from the Akatsuki's tentacles.
"Now I'll take your heart." He was cut off by Kakashi's Chidori cutting the tentacles that were attached to Naruto and Yamato using wood style to bind him. Tetsuo tried to smash one of the masks with his own rasengan but was knocked away when it shot high pressured air at him.
"Go Naruto!"
"Yes sir!" Not a second after Naruto said that the Akatsuki transformed completely, his whole body was now just a mass of tentacles.
"Not only did his form change, he's building up chakra too,"
"He's preparing himself for Naruto's jutsu."
Three new Naruto's were created, making it four Naruto's total on the field. They helped form the rasenshuriken before charging at the Akatsuki member but surprised them by jumping in the air. He used his wire tentacles at Naruto, effectively crushing the ground and Naruto. They had thought that Naruto was down but it turned out to just be a clone
The real Naruto appeared behind him with a newly formed rasenshuriken in hand. "He mixed the original one in with the diversion!" He knew that he was as good as gone since he wasn't fast enough to dodge that.
The rasenshuriken made impact as the Akatsuki's body was slowly being destroyed by the wind made from the explosion of the jutsu. Everyone had their eyes covered as wind energy was sent in all directions. A gaping crater was formed with spiral directions showing the origin of its creation. 'The number of hits that Jutsu had, I can't even follow it with my sharingan.' He then got a smirk on his face as he looked at a worn out Naruto, 'I can't believe he's close to my level, well not for long.'
Tetsuo now had a new goal to achieve
He was going to make sure Naruto never caught up with him
-Hokage's office-
"Excellent work everyone, don't get complacent though, there are still Akatsuki to deal with." Tsunade commended as they finished their report on the mission, "For now though you can all take a break, you've earned it."
Everyone had left the office either to go rest and recover or to have a celebratory dinner in the success of their mission. Tetsuo walked next to Shikamaru who was heading in the direction of Asuma's grave.
"Did you do it?"
"Yeah, I did." They walked in silence thinking over the memories they had over their teacher/brother, "You know, I'm supposed to be the child's godfather."
"Yeah, I'm not surprised, you were his best friend, all of you were."
"You're not mad?" He was just curious as all
"Of course not, besides I'm never here most of the year, you're a better godfather than me anyways." He joked but both could tell that he was serious; he took out one of his special kunai's and handed it over to Shikamaru, "But if there's ever any trouble, don't hesitate to give me a call." Was all he said before heading back to his apartment.
But not before going to the store and buying those candy white sticks
-Next mission-
The rain was beating down on every member of team Kakashi as they traversed the harsh rocky terrain. Sai was having more trouble since he was flying on one of his drawings and he was constantly using up his chakra to make sure it didn't get washed away by the rain. His team was sent on a mission to locate kekkei genkai ninja who had suddenly disappeared from the village.
The tracks ended at the current mountain they were on, Mount Shumisen. 'This is it, the trail of the missing kekkei genkai ninja ends here.' He heard a high pitched noise and looked around as feathers were falling from above him. He saw what was written on each feather and was barely able to maneuver before the feathers exploded.
Something dropped from the clouds, it was a bird the likes he had never witnessed before, and it was heading for him at top speed. It sliced his art bird, turning it back to ink, as he fell he got a good glimpse of the creature and was able to make out the eye like patterns on the bottom of its wings.
The rest of team Kakashi traveled on the ground as the jumped on top of and past the rock pillars that were in their way. Naruto saw Sai fall and sped his pace to go rescue his injured friend, "Sai!"
"Oi Naruto, slow down." Tetsuo called out as they tried to keep up with the blond
"We have to go save Sai," Naruto was the first one to reach a point to where they would able to see the far distance. He could easily recognize the castle in the far region, but what he was more concerned about was the giant door that had a fallen Sai at its stoop. He jumped over to find the boy unconscious, "Sai," He shook the boy once but he would not awaken, "Wake up,"
A growl was heard and from the top of the door two more strange looking creatures, this time resembling lions, jumped down from the door. Both were large in size and the added destruction of having twin gun barrels on their backs.
"Kage bunshin no jutsu," Naruto summoned clones to destruct the creatures in an attempt to flee but the clones were stabbed by giant tethers. Naruto startled when he was cut by one of them.
"Rasengan!"
"Raikiri!"
The lions took both high level attack from Tetsuo and Kakashi with ease.
"Hell yeah!" Sakura crushed the ground with her amazing strength and with the upheaval of earth they were able to get away safely. Sakura placed Sai on thr ground as her hands turned green with healing chakra.
"Is he going to be okay?" Naruto asked
"Tetsuo," Sakura started
"Right," Tetsuo punched Naruto, really hard mind you, right in the face, making a dent in the wall behind him.
"What's the pro-," His sentence was cut off when Tetsuo pulled down his collar to show him the blood that the wound had accumulated.
"You see that, that's a horrible injury. If you're gonna make a rescue at least come up with a good strategy first. I'm so sick of always bailing your ass out." Tetsuo held his hand over the wound and with his good demon chakra was able to close up the wound and stop the bleeding.
Kakashi got a contemplative look on his face as he stared at the scene in front of him, 'They just like we were, don't you think Obito?'
-Back in Konoha *Spooky voice*-
"We followed the trail of the four missing kekkei genkai shinobi that went missing from their respective villages. They all ended up here." Kakashi pointed to a spot on the map that indicated somewhere in the land of rock, "They vanished in between Iwa and Kusa, right at Mount Shumisen in the Konrin mountain range." Kakashi explained giving the details of their latest mission
"You did well," Tsunade commended
"What's the next move?"
"I'll figure something out, don't worry about it." Tsunade abated
'If they target another kekkei genkai shinobi, it'll probably be…'
"What's wrong?" Tsunade asked seeing the troubled look on Kakashi's face
"It's nothing,"
"Are they holding up alright?" The hokage asked in reference to Kakashi's team
"They are, I forced them to check into the hospital."
"He's not the type to follow orders and stay in bed," She warned
"Don't worry, I have a guard that will make sure of it." Kakashi smiled from behind his mask
-BBQ-
Naruto walked in the BBQ restaurant in only hospital clothes dragging behind him a nauseated Sai who was wearing the same clothes but also had an IV wired into him. "Wow, everyone's already chowing down!" He greeted everybody
"This isn't right Naruto, we weren't given permission to leave-,"
"It's all good."
"Oi, you can't add a million people to the guest list." Shikamaru admonished
"The more the merrier, right, Sai?" He slapped the boy on the back almost making him spill his IV
"This party is to celebrate our recovery, so eat as much as you want, Shikamaru's gonna treat everyone!"
"I never said-!"
"Arigato, Shikamaru!" Everyone thanked cutting the boy off from his refusal
Naruto didn't feel the presence behind him as Tetsuo appeared and put his arm around Naruto's neck, he shook his head as the boy grew rigid, "Naruto, Naruto, Naruto," He said slowly, "Do you think that I was born yesterday, do you think that I'm stupid, do you think that I won't tag you just so I can follow you." He took the boy's arm and showed him his transportation seal
"Oh come on, it's a party, besides I have leverage over you." Naruto said smugly, with his evil grin in place
"Yeah, like what," Tetsuo called the boy on his bluff, but as Naruto leaned close in his ear to whisper something that even Kiba couldn't hear, Tetsuo realized it wasn't a bluff. "How did you-, fine you can stay, but YOU are paying for my food."
"Oh really,"
Tetsuo grabbed the boy by his collar, "Yes really," He wasn't about to take this bribe lying down
Naruto held his hands up in defeat as he gave the boy a nervous smile, "Right, right, I'll pay." The threating mode was dissipated as the party was about to start, "Alright, let's dig-"
"You two!" Naruto and Sai didn't expect the slaps that was so hard it almost twisted their spines how many times they twisted.
Tetsuo leaned down to a probably comatose Naruto and placed his hands on his knees, "Your still paying for my food."
-Few minute time skip-
Tetsuo had opted out of the celebration that was still taking effect even though the guest of honor was back in the hospital thanks to Naruto. He had found Konohamaru and decided to have a friendly spar with the boy. He saw that his nephew was weak in places like chakra control. He would tire out from Jutsu like the rasengan if he held it for too long.
This would be an excellent time to train his nephew in something, so he thought that training Konohamaru would make his mark on the boy since he had a jutsu from his grandfather and uncle. "No, Konohamaru, condense your chakra, don't just thin it."
"But Nii-chan, this is so hard." The smaller boy whined
"It's only as hard as you make it, you're a Sarutobi, we're known for learning skills easily." He kneeled next to the boy and placed a hand at his shoulder, "I promise that if you learn this technique, you'll be stronger than Naruto." It was an obvious lie but that gave Konohamaru the pick me up he needed
"Right, let's try again," But they weren't able to as the sky darkened and a giant figure appeared in the sky. Everyone in the village looked towards the projection as it towered over their village
"I am the shinobi Hiruko from Konohagakure, I have used my chimera technique to take the kekkei genkai Ninjutsu from the four great nations and made them mine, I will be invincible once I obtain the fifth kekkei genkai, I will become the ultimate immortal ninja. I shall use these powers to start the fourth great shinobi world war. I shall rule over all," The projection faded as the sky brightened once more
"I'm sorry Konohamaru-chan, training will have to be cut short for today."
"Go kick his-,"
"Konohamaru!"
"I was gonna say butt," He smiled before he disappeared to Hokage tower where Tsunade was issuing the orders
"Effective immeadiatly, the village will be placed under martial law. As you know, the shinobi Hiruko has declared war. This has put our village in the most dangerous situation it's ever faced. Another village could attack us at any time, be vigilant." They were dismissed heeding Tsunade's warning and wondering what plan of action the Hokage would take
-That night -
Kakashi's brow furrowed as the events of his dream changed from a battle to a walk in a bamboo forest. He was running from something and when he turned around, there stood the man that was projected across the sky yesterday. "It's been awhile, Hatake Kakashi," The person who could have been mistaken as a child shifted form to an older smiling man
"You're Hiruko," Kakashi said nervously
The man placed a palm on his forehead protector and Kakashi felt his sharingan being activated and his mind clouded over. When Kakashi awoke his mind was still clouded over and he could tell that a seal was on his head. He immeadiatly headed towards the Hokage's office who was doing paperwork at this time.
"What's the matter?" She asked wondering what he was doing at her office so late
"The sign appeared."
"What?"
"Hiruko decided that my sharingan would be his fifth kekkei genkai over ten years ago. He must have placed a puppet jutsu on me at some point." He guessed
Tsunade slammed her hand on her desk, "Why, is he trying to get his revenge on the leaf?" She guessed, "I he is, then I am at fault as well. I won't let Hiruko get you."
"No, please let me go." He insisted
"It wouldn't do any good, if my ANBU reports are correct he has a technique that allows him to turn Jutsu back into pure chakra and devour them. In other words, even the best shinobi can't get near him. He's basically an invincible ninja!" She concluded
"Then why does he have to summon shinobi with kekkei genkai. I imagine certain conditions must be met for him to be able to absorb a kekkei genkai, why did he summon me now?" He asked rhetorically
"I've heard that there's a special condition dealing with a special type of light." She went to her calendar and flipped forward the next two days, "There's an annular eclipse in two days."
"That's probably it, we're out of time. Tsunade-sama, there's a technique I would like you to use on me. This is the only way to defeat Hiruko,"
"Kakashi, I'd be sacrificing a subordinate to protect the village, do you want history to look back on me as a cold hearted Hokage?" It was an actual serious question from her
"Yes, that is what I want. Tsunade-sama, that is your will of fire*."
-Tetsuo and Naruto's apartment-
Tetsuo opened to front door so the incessant pounding would stop and he could get back to sleep. When he opened the door he wasn't surprised to see Sakura since the pounding was so loud and he was sure that his door had a few cracks in it. He looked at the girl expectantly since she knew the only reason to wake him up was if something had happened
If nothing had happened then there would be hell to pay
"What is it, Sakura?" He leaned on the door as the kunoichi caught her breath
"Kakashi-sensei's left the village, Tsunade-sama's declared him a missing nin, and Naruto's in jail!" She said with a huff
Tetsuo nodded his head as he went back inside the apartment, "Let me get dressed,"
This is the Naruto shippuden movie 3, if you've never seen it i suggest you do only thing bad i got to say about it was that they said "Will of fire" Way to much
*This is what gives Konohagakure shinobi the strength to continue fighting against all odds, building willpower and strength of character. It is also symbolic of the hopes and dreams of the previous generation being passed to the next; for example when Asuma Sarutobi was killed, his hopes and dreams were passed to Shikamaru Nara, who asked that his will would in turn be passed on to his and Kurenai's child.
