Summary: Just after Kyuubi no Yoko was sealed inside newborn Naruto, Gamabunta found that he had company when he returned to the Mebokuzan. So Naruto was raised by the toads, but time to return to his real home came.
Title: Konoha's young sage
Author: NHunter aka N.H. aka 夜狩猟家 aka 灰色天使
Genre: General, Adventure, some Romance later
Rating: M = NC-17
Characters: almost everyone from manga, may have some OCs and/or filler characters
Warnings: AU, OOC
Disclaimer: I DO NOT own Naruto or its characters
"speaking"
'thinking'
"speaking of higher beings / jutsus"
'thinking of higher beings'
AN: this will be my second story written in non-native language, so if there will be mistakes, don't be too rough. And I hope, that this story has at least something original. but who knows... anyway, let's start ^_^
* Jutsu list:
Suiton: teppoudama - (C-rank) Water style: bullet - user (Gamabunta) spits a large amount of water in a form of bullet/cannonball.
Shiki fuuin - (S-rank) Corpse spirit sealing method - summoning Shinigami, user can rip target's soul from the body and seal it away, either in himself, or any other object. If the soul is sealed within jutsu user, both user's and target's souls are eaten by Shinigami, while if the target's soul is sealed in other object, only user's soul is eaten.
Hakke no fuuin shiki - (unknown rank) Eight divination signs seal - one of the seals used by Minato to imprison the Kyuubi in Naruto.
Shishou fuuin - (unknown rank) Four images seal - another seal used by Minato to imprison the Kyuubi in Naruto.
Konoha's young sage
Prologue.
"Suiton: teppoudama!" Gamabunta, great leader of the mighty toad clan, shoot three more water cannonballs at the nine-tailed fox demon, Kyuubi no Yoko, who was on rampage, attacking ninja village. But water attack could do nothing to the currently greatest demon on the Earth... And his time on the battlefield was coming to an end too. "How much more time do you need, Minato? I'm almost out of chakra!" Gamabunta said, looking at the approaching nine-tailed fox.
"Ten seconds." Man, who standing on the top of Gamabunta's head, Minato Namikadze, the Forth Hokage of Konohagakure no Sato, laid down bundle he was holding in his hand before. Bundle was revealed to be a newborn baby with same yellow hair Minato had, wrapped into piece of clothes. Minato ran through handseals. "Shiki fuuin!" Almost immediately ghost figure of the Death God appeared behind Minato. Even if only he could see Shinigami, everyone in ten mile radius could feel temperature drop to a zero degrees, accompanied by great fear, enough to make even the Kyuubi freeze for a second. After several second of telepathic conversation between Forth Hokage and the Death God, ugly ghost hand ripped its way through Minato's stomach and shoot towards the Kyuubi, catching its soul. "Naruto, I hope you'll forgive me, my son..." Minato said to the boy lying in front of him on Gamabunta's head. The same moment Shinigami's hand brought Kyuubi's soul to the little boy's body "Hakke no fuuin shiki! Shishou fuuin!" Soul of the greatest demon was now sealed inside newborn baby. "I hope you'll be seeing as a hero there... Goodbye..." In the distance Kyuubi's yoki-made body disappeared.
"Goodbye Minato Namikadze. It was a honour to fight alongside with you..." Gamabunta said as he lowered his head. "Looks like I'm done there." Then he disappeared in a giant cloud of white smoke.
"What the hell!" Shouted Gamabunta. He was back at the Mebokuzan mountain, where his clan lived. But he was not alone. Naruto was loudly crying somewhere on his head.
"You didn't said that we will have a guest, Bunta-kun." Small aged toad in black cloak chuckled, but immediately went back to seriousness "Who is this little boy?"
"His name is Naruto. Minato wished him to be Uzumaki, though I don't understand why, Fukasaku-sama." Replied toad leader. "What will we do?"
"I take it that this boy has Kyuubi no Yoko sealed inside him." Gamabunta nodded. "I don't think that it would be safe for him to be at Konoha."
"But Fukasaku-sama, we cannot rise him!" Bunta shouted.
"And why not?" Another small ancient toad in black cloak appeared seemingly out of nowhere. "Fukasaku is right. It is not safe for him to be in Konoha right now. They might want revenge on the Kyuubi and attack or, worse, kill this little innocent tadpole."
"For once I agree with you, woman." Fukasaku whispered, but his wife, Shima, heard him.
"What did you say, old jerk?" For next ten minutes, before Naruto started crying even more loudly, Gamabunta watched two elders of toad clan fighting...
~ *** 4 years later *** ~
Shima was sitting on the stone step that led to her and Fukasaku's house, knitting, while watching little Naruto playing.
"Ma! Look what I can do!" The blond shouted, making the aged toad look at him. When he had her attention, Naruto jumped high into the air and tried to do a backwards flip, he saw senior toad warrior do during their spars. Of course, young jinchuuriki lacked the skills needed to this, and ended up falling into the big puddle on his back. Shima shook her head and returned to knitting, as she watched him get up. "I can do that! You'll see!" The little blond exclaimed. "Pa, tell her that I can do that!" He asked Fukasaku who walked into the yard Naruto and Shima were in.
"Tell Ma what?" The toad elder asked back, making the boy let out an angry cry from this 'unfairness'. "Anyway, Naruto-chan, I have to ask you something." This got Naruto's attention.
"Wha' do you want to ask me, Pa?" He asked Fukasaku.
"Naruto-chan, Now you're old enough to start training, so I want to ask you: do you want me to train you?" Toad elder saw interest in blond's cerulean eyes. "I will make you strong, Naruto-chan, I promise." Naruto jumped up and down and nodded eagerly.
"Of course I want, Pa!" He shouted.
"...It won't be easy though..." 'Pa' continued.
"I want to train! I want to be strong!" The little blond yelled.
"Very well." Fukasaku said. "We will start tomorrow... I will tell you some rules now: When we will be training, or when we are around other humans ...bar Jiraya-chan, you should call me Fukasaku-sensei. You're a good boy, Naruto-chan, and good boys should be respectful with their teachers." Naruto nodded, though, not as eagerly as he did before.
"OK, Fuka... sa... ku-sens'i." The boy said.
"That will do, Naruto-chan. And the second rule: you shall do as I, or your other teachers, shall you have any, instruct you." The little jinchuuriki nodded again. Then Fukasaku looked at his wife. "When we will have lunch?" Shima stopped knitting and looked up at her husband.
"You again lost the count of time, you old toad! Your lunch is on the table, where it was for the last two hours!" She replied in an annoyed tone. Fukasaku nodded and jumped towards his food into the house...
~ *** 7 more years later *** ~
"Good morning, Naruto-chan." Fukasaku greeted his apprentice. Naruto was now eleven years old. Harsh trainings with toads he'd undergone since he was four made him well build for his age. The boy wore dark khaki ninja-style pants, same colour jacket. He had bandages on his wrists and several seals for weapons on hands.
"Good morning, Fukasaku-sensei. What will be today's lesson?"
"I thought that time for you to come to your real home came." Naruto had puzzled expression on his face: he thought that Mebokuzan was his home for his entire life, even if he knew that his parents were Leaf shinobi. "So the following week Gamabunta will teach you everything about Konohagakure no Sato."
"Hai, Fukasaku-sensei. I'll find him right now."
"Good..." Naruto made step towards toad clan leader's place, but Fukasaku spoke again. "Naruto. Ones Bunta finishes, come here. I'll accompany you to your birthplace."
~ *** Eight more days later *** ~
"Are you ready, Naruto-chan?" Fukasaku asked, checking boy's storage seals with his belongings.
"As usual, Fukasaku-sensei." Replied blond boy. "Let's go!" As usual, Naruto was full of energy...
"Then get ready, we are leaving now." Fukasaku made a few handseals and Naruto instantly felt like something of incredible power pulled him out of his place. Next second this weird feeling left him and he found himself in a cloud of white smoke. Not knowing, exactly where he was, he slipped into his taijutsu battle stance...
About pairings... I don't know yet who will be with Naruto, so... you may choose... poll is added to my profile. (anyway, romance part won't be started for several chapters...)
* Tamaki - girl from Soraku (Heavenly city (?)) [manga 354]
* Ino...
* Temari
* Yugito
* Tayuya
* Other one (write name of your candidate in review (I'm against Naru/Saku, harem-fics, tired of Naru/Hina, but if you'll insist, I may write those))
And lastly, I'm university student, so I have to study hard. ^_^ Next update, most likely, will be around 20th may.