'Thoughts' "Speaking" Author's Notes "Bijuu Speaking" "Telepathic Talking"
=Chapter 15: Truth and Revelation! [Part 2]=
"We are the Orange Flames of the Sun!"
Danzo was becoming more and more annoyed from Kitsune. This figure was defacing him more as this conversation went on, slowly turning the others away from his power. "You know nothing you insolent fools!"
"Nothing huh? I've been told that so many times before." The wind howled more as Kitsune spoke, flailing around the cloaks. "Well here's the truth Danzo. I know every little thing about you! Especially that bandaged eye of yours!" Danzo's face turned into a mixture of emotions, the other onlookers confused.
"The Shinobi of Darkness! You are so scared of the truth, the light, the day, the very thing that a village should be thriving in! You know nothing at all, you're stuck in the past you ol' geezer!" The surrounding crowd got more tense, this hooded figure was spitting on Danzo's image second by second. Kitsune bit his thumb and let the blood drop on the ground before holding his hands in the 'ram' seal.
The Konoha ninja that went on the mission tensed up, seeing one of the rogues before their eyes. The body of the rogue lay dead on the ground before Kitsune continued. "He..." Kitsune pointed to the body before him. "Had a lot to say about you Danzo. You really think some C to B-Ranked ninja could take us out? And you said they were A to S-Ranked, p-lease! My group were looking for a challenge as well! I seriously question your Intel gathering."
Danzo gripped his cane harder, the ground starting to crack from the intense pressure. Kitsune was revealing all of his secrets, in front of the most influential people in the Land of Fire as well! He was found out. Paying rogues, his bandaged eyes and much more! He had to find some sort of opening to turn it his way!
"You are the most pathetic excuse of a Hokage I have ever seen. You use the most evil tactics to get things your way. Fear to mention just one. You should've never been Hokage. The most suitable candidate would've been Hatake Kakashi of the Sharingan but you just had to use that eye didn't you?"
The evil sound in Kitsune's voice became clearer and clearer, the air going wilder and wilder. Timed seemed to freeze for second before the air shifted, revealing blue and red particles floating through the air.
"You don't deserve the title of Hokage."
=Mount Myoboku=
Naruto stared in shock at the lines drawn over the piece of paper before sealing it into a scroll. "It's like we're all connected altogether."
Ranmaru looked at Naruto in confusion, asking for him to elaborate.
"It matches perfectly with a place in Uzushio. Oh right, you don't what that is right?" Ranmaru nodded.
"Well, to put it simply, a place that was destroyed ages ago, home to my clan. Basically there, there's a shrine that has been locked for ages and this matches perfectly with the pattern there." Ranmaru nodded in understanding, even if it all didn't completely make sense now.
"Well, let us start with your training." The air shifted and they appeared in the middle of a training ground, tall mushrooms and trees sprouting out from the ground. "Number One: Tree-Climbing."
"What? But even I can do that!" Ranmaru complained, before his jaw dropped to the ground as Naruto calmly walked up the side of a tree, not holding on at all with his hands, just his feet. "W-what...?"
"Channel chakra to the bottom of your feet and start climbing up to the top. This will increase your chakra control and your reserves but it's a pain," Naruto said, hanging upside down from a branch.
"Damn it!" Ranmaru slipped and fell of the tree he was climbing on. "How the hell?"
"Here's something. Too little and you'll slip, too much and the bark will explode." And as if on cue, Ranmaru's tree exploded beneath his feet, sending him flying backwards.
"Hmph, this is hard." A few more explosions could be heard echoing through Mount Myoboku, followed by a 'damn it!' soon afterwards.
=Konoha Gates=
"You don't deserve the title of Hokage."
The red and blue particles in the air started swirling around a centre point in the sky above Kitsune before some of them started coalescing into a purple orb, the remaining ones still swirling around.
Danzo's final screw loosened and fell, his anger roared out of his body directed to the Orange Flames who didn't flinch at all. The air weighed down on top of the ninja, suffocating the weaker elders.
"You... you have no right to say anything you fools!" Danzo roared, vast amounts of killer intent flooding the air. "You all are pathetic and don't know anything! You're all want-to-be's, pathetic, weak and insolent beings that don't have a right to exist! You're all lying, each one of you under those weak hoods that show cowardliness!"
"Oh really? I'm weak huh? Honestly you old man I don't know how you'd forget what this is?" Kitsune pointed up into the sky, bringing attention to the ever-growing purple mass of chakra.
"Danzo-sama, it can't be!"
"No... that's real..."
"A bijuu bomb..." The purple orb grew to until it managed to create a shadow that could envelop the Flames.
"Old man, I don't know what's going on in that head of yours but you know, they're back so anything can happen," came the voice of Kitsune.
"I don't know what kind of trickery this is but you stop it right now you weakling-"
"Weakling? Weaklings? We've all been called that our entire lives and that hasn't stopped us. You're the most wrong you could ever be Danzo. Wrong at your lungs. I could release this any time I want and blow up your pathetic little village, wreck it worse than Pein." Kitsune held his hand up and twisted his palm, the bomb disappearing and reappearing over the village.
"You will take that down and surrender now!" Danzo lost all care in the world and aimed his hand at the band of rogues and clenched his fist.
Attacks leapt out of the trees, a mixture of all the elements along with kunai and shuriken being thrown at the group. The sky rumbled before lightning shot out of the clear sky and pillars of earth shot out from the ground, fire leaping from each pillar and wind enhancing the flame.
"Yang Style: Whip of Judgement," came Kitsune's clear voice as onlooking Byakugan and Sharingan activated, trying to find out what the hell was going on. The dojutsu users saw Kitsune's chakra system flash white before chakra gathered at Kitsune's hands and moved outwards, taking the form of a whip before it moved around and created a moving barrier of sorts, cutting through all of the incoming attacks. "Yang Style, the fastest of all the chakra natures. That was a nice lesson wasn't it?"
"Wind Style: Vacuum Serial Wave." Danzo inhaled and exhaled a sharp, fast-moving blade of wind, aimed at Kitsune through the smoke and debris. How he aimed, no one on his side knew, but Kitsune could see everything.
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"Well Danzo, I congratulate you." A lone clapping sound rang through the air. "You've actually done it."
"Leader-sama, are you sure about this? You still have time," came a weary voice from the Orange Flames.
"No, I will continue, Dragon."
"As you wish, just don't come crying to me later," responded the newly named Dragon.
"You wish." Doing the 'bird' hand seal behind the smoke, the wind gently blew in, clearing the area and leaving twelve hooded figures surrounding Kitsune.
Yellow hair with streaks of crimson blew in the wind, longer bangs falling down to Kitsune's neck, moving ever so slightly in the calm. Spiky hair protruded from the head, bearing resemblance to one man: Namikaze Minato.
Three broad whisker marks on each side of the cheeks appeared from the shadowed face, resembling the Kyuubi. Kitsune looked up, a sapphire blue like the ocean resting in one eye, the other coloured lilac and glowing. A Konoha headband lay tied around the forehead, the symbol with a slash mark through it.
"Since when was the last time I saw these gates and breathed this fresh air? Two odd years ago I believe. Isn't it nice to be back, Konoha?"
"N-n-naruto?"
"The demon's back!"
"Is that-"
"Demon! We should kill it now!"
"N-n-naruto-kun?"
"Troublesome... blond."
The world faded away, the lone light shining on Naruto's figure for a lot of the people around him. The number-one, hyperactive, knuckled-head ninja was back.
"It can't be..."
The Konoha 10 started to pale. It was him all along.
Working.
With.
Them.
And the leader of the most powerful organisation on the lands.
"Nameless huh Danzo? Remember me?"
Danzo's lone eye showed a mixture of emotions: confusion, shock, realisation and then back to pure evil. "You... Uzumaki Naruto."
"That's not my name. My name Uzumaki-Namikaze Naruto!"
Gasps were heard everywhere. The world paled more at this revelation. A lot of the onlookers pieced it together. The only Namikaze heard of was Yondaime. It made sense. An almost carbon copy on Minato standing there.
The elders started to pale and sweat at this. They didn't know about this! They practically abused Konoha royalty! But since when? Was he lying? These questions raced through the minds of the elders, the rest not knowing what to do.
The Konoha 10 were more confused. Why did Naruto not come back to them? Why did he fake his death? What had happened? Why did he make them suffer? Where had he been all of these years?
"The village I protected. The village I grew up in. The village I loved, betrayed me," came Naruto's voice, dark and deep.
No, this wasn't the Naruto his friends knew. It was something different. He was something different. This was not the old Naruto. The group had many questions to be answered but Danzo beat them all to the one question they were looking for.
"How are you alive?"
An playful smirk made it's way to Naruto's mouth, a grin becoming more prominent as it went on. "Oh, so you mean after you told me I had to die for the 'sake of the village' or join your little cult over there? After how you sent your goons to kill me?" was the response of Naruto, followed by an evil chuckle. "Sake of the village, pathetic. You needed to send more resources after me."
A dark energy started to emanate of Naruto, making a lot around the area uncomfortable. A few started sweating and looking for ways to run. This was not killer intent, or anything close. This was the hatred of something ancient. Something evil. Something almighty. It was nothing but pure pain. It was everything negative mixed together. It was something the old Naruto never was. It was the power of something scary. Something epic.
The old crippled Hokage was showing no emotion, somehow still calm from this power. A burst of chakra came from Danzo, the eye under the bandages glowing green. Another burst of chakra from Naruto and the right lilac eye was gone, replaced with a completely purple eye with black rings forming a ripple pattern round the eye. Six tomoes, three on the inner most ring and second inner ring were placed equal distances from each other.
"You really think that will work Danzo?" The wave of energy seemed to hit an invisible wall before disappearing, the green and purple eyes fading away.
"Why?" came the lone voice of Tsunade, breaking the silence. "Why didn't you come back for help?"
Naruto merely grinned and pointed to his forehead protector. "Oh maybe... because of this?" His 'friends' finally noticed it. The mark of a rogue. That was two of them, gone.
"This is the only path for me. I thank you for helping me discover this path Danzo, albeit consequences were had on the way. I sacrificed so much for this village, yet you all turned your backs on me. You tried to kill me." Naruto brought out a three-pronged kunai and started twirling it around his finger. "This is what you created. I now have a dream, that won't just affect this village but everywhere. I will make it a reality."
He caught the kunai spinning and put it back into his cloak. The tense feeling retreated back to wherever it came from, Naruto's voice returning to normal. "Oh you old geezer. You are too stuck in the past, too deep into the darkness to continue. You kill many innocent people for your personal gains. You will have to die."
"Whatever. Kill them, no holding back!"
The ANBU belonging to Danzo had no hesitation in attacking once more, the other ones slightly hesitating before attacking. They did have to listen to their Hokage after all. The jutsus launched once more to the Flames, Naruto smirking all of the way.
"Dance of the Volcano!" Bird shouted, doing hand seals and placing his hands on the ground before lava sprouted out of cracks, forming a barrier around the Flames. In response, a wave of sand burst slightly behind the lava, turning into glass and forming a protective dome around the cloaked rogues.
"Well, my control might not be as good as Gaara's but this will suffice. Thanks once more, Shukaku," came the voice of Naruto once more before the glass disappeared as it was engulfed by explosions coming from the jutsus, along with more kunai and paper bombs. "Oh wait, this might not be enough actually..." came the cheerful yet evil voice of Naruto.
"Whirlpool Weapons: Protection of the Seas!"
The glass shattered into a million pieces before a roaring sound of waves echoed through the air, water swirling round and round and absorbing the attacks.
"Sakura Sword!" Dog unsheathed glowing white sword, a purple pattern trailing down the blade. A black handle with intricate patterns carved into it rested at the bottom with small crystals attached to the edges. She used it to deflect all of the incoming projectiles and cutting all of the tags in half.
'Skilled in kenjutsu, interesting...'
Three of the Flames had completely stopped the onslaught of attack, with some slight help from their leader. The debris cleared, the defences died down and weapons sheathed once more. Naruto's lone voice broke everyone out of the trance that was power. "Well, I'd love to chat, maybe have a drink or two but I don't think you're that kind of person. Also, we have a world to liberate so we can't stay longer. Thanks for my family's scrolls and some of the forbidden scrolls of this village!"
The cloaked rogues all did the 'ram' hand seal before Naruto did the ones for an unknown jutsu, landing on the 'ram' seal as well. Danzo, infuriated and getting more unstable at the moment decided to try to end this. He did his own hand seals and used his bandaged arm to attack.
"Wind Waves!"
"Oh so you still want to dance?" Naruto said with his signature smile. "Well too bad I can't continue. Monkey, give them a dear gift before we go will ya~?"
"Ka-boom!" At that split-second, the Orange Flames disappeared into thin air, leaving behind a white flash with a mix of yellow and orange in it. Empty space lay where they used to be, as Danzo's attack hit nothing but air.
Followed by their disappearance, a large chakra signature was felt building up before releasing. The walls around the village started to crumble, shaking the ground and destroying trees in their wake.
"The hell?" some random Jonin called out before sirens started flashing in the village. More explosions were heard from random areas dotted through the village, tearing down buildings and blocking roads. ANBU swarmed through the village, noting down the areas that were hit and how large the damage was.
More explosions rocked the village, the ground starting to cave in and birds flying away from the village. More and more buildings started to fall all around a certain ramen store, not being hit by any debris for some reason.
"Damn it Kyuubi brat!" Danzo roared, looking over his partially-destroyed village, not noticing a little puff of smoke fade back into the wind.
"What about that?" another random Jonin asked, pointing at the purple orb still in the sky.
=Mount Myoboku=
Thirteen chakra signatures entered the detection of Mount Myoboku, although none stirred as they knew who it was.
A few more explosions could be heard throughout the village, the duty of one certain trainee. The trees in the area had scratch marks all over them and if you looked closely, one mischievous blond watching over before poofing out of existence.
"So how'd it go Naruto-chan?"
A tic marked formed on said blonds head but did nothing about it. "It all went to plan!" he responded, gaining memories of his clone from Konoha. A few short second past before he gained more memories from watching over his newest member in training. "I take it there have been a few explosions around here?"
The two old toads nodded before Naruto disappeared, leaving the rest of the group to do what they wanted.
"I wonder what they're doing right now."
=Council Chambers=
The Konoha elders, Danzo and the members of the civilian council sat around a large table deep inside the Hokage Mountain. The clan heads walked in, each being the usual head or a representative of the clan, such as Tsunade.
Danzo had called another emergency meeting, which were so common during these days that a new 'emergency emergency' meeting should be installed. The silence crowded the room for a minute before Danzo sliced through it.
"What a complete and utter disgrace."
Danzo was annoyed. He was never this irate about anything. Anything except the Orange Flames. Anything about them annoyed Danzo so much. He looked at each of the council members in the eye, daring them to speak up.
"We let our Jinchuriki escape! How did this happen? Surely we would've sensed some of the Kyuubi's chakra?" shouted Hiashi, obviously annoyed from this revelation.
"Then they must've trained somewhere where the chakra would be concealed or extremely far away!"
Something in Danzo's mind clicked at this. "Mount Myoboku. The location is so far away that we wouldn't be able to sense any amount of chakra used. This also explains the disappearances of the toads for the past years around here."
"Yes but do you know where it lies?"
Danzo grit his teeth at this. No one knows the location of Mount Myoboku, only the highest of the toad elders knew. The only clue the village was given is a month's travel away from Konoha but in which direction?
"If you'd never sentenced the boy, then this would've never happen, troublesome," said Shikaku, finally speaking up through closed eyes.
Danzo growled. No matter the situation, a Nara was still a Nara. Under pressure, a Nara could stay calm, and possibly sleep through it.
"It was a decision we made at the time to stop the boy releasing the Kyuubi. We felt enough chakra being released from it at that time, meaning he almost released the Kyuubi! It was for the safety of the village! The boy was obviously not in control of the beast. We discussed this years ago and we have to address this current situation-"
"Which?" spoke up Choza.
"Yes, there are a few that need to be addressed," spoke up the Nara head.
"A few?" asked a random civilian member.
"Let's start, ignoring the 'putting him to death' for the time being," spoke up Shikaku, finally opening his eyes. "Number One: How did they manage to get inside the village, steal most of the villages most prized scrolls from our most secure vaults without being detected at all! How did they know the location, even when nearly all of the Jonin and ANBU do not know where the scrolls are kept? Many don't even know they exist and that brings us another question: how did they get past the barrier corps? Naruto was skilled but with all the information, it is decided that he did not do the job but merely some of the other members in the group. I doubt Kakashi told Naruto the code to get past the corps so how?"
"Second, Naruto knows what of his Namikaze heritage, but when? That also means that by proxy, he knows about the truth of Uzushio." Shikaku looked at Danzo in the eye before continuing. "With this considered, only a few of us knew before about Naruto's heritage. Sandaime-sama's law says to that, however since he knows, the ban is now lifted leaving people to have to know the truth. I know most of you here have had your fair of suspicions but could not confirm it. Now this leads onto problem number three."
"Which is?" Tsunade inquired. She wanted to know more about her godson.
"The son of our beloved Yondaime is a rogue ninja. Most will be shocked enough to realise his heritage, hell some might not even believe it! A rogue prince? None will believe it, but they will eventually realise. They will fight to get the prince back, but it is clear Naruto has no ties with this village whatsoever. He made that clear when he destroyed the village."
"This now goes back to where we started of why would we send a death warrant to one of the most promising ninja ever? If we could bring him back, then he would be a powerful ally to the village! He showed promise when he was younger and now he shows more, housing the most powerful bijuu! The heir of the Uzumaki and Namikaze clans that are almost extinct. Naruto should be-"
"-eliminated," interrupted a red faced Danzo. He was getting more and more annoyed, releasing more killer intent. He planted his stick into the ground. "It is the Hokage's decree. I will dispatch teams to find Myoboku and to eliminate them-"
"-which brings me onto my fourth point. Do you really think your teams can match up against Naruto? His defence of those black orbs, along with the rest of his group is quite impenetrable. Who knows what they have in store for attacking? They were emitting intense power already so what makes you think your ANBU stand a chance? I know your ANBU are strong but face facts."
Danzo hit the ground with his cane once more. "Silence Nara or I will have you executed! We discussed this and we will eliminate them! He is to be captured and eliminated! We have to take care of him, what would happen if any of the villages managed to get to him first? They would use him against us!"
'Well Danzo, do what you want. But don't come crying to me later- oh wait, you'll be dead,' thought Shikaku as he fell back to sleep.
During the speech, Danzo eyed each of the clan heads in the eye as if daring them to speak back up. They couldn't do anything, the Hokage's word was the Hokage's word. Even if they wanted to stand up against him, he was their leader. "I will send out teams just like I said so. Meeting adjourned."
Danzo walked back out of the room seething with anger. He was finished, being reminded of his failures and weaknesses. He could almost see the previous dead Hokages laughing at him, laughing their heads off. Everything he planned for, everything he worked so hard for, destroyed by some teen.
"Damn you Uzumaki-Namikaze."
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