Devil Fruit Shinobi

When the rabbit goddess discovered the God Tree she did not discover one chakra fruit. Instead, she discovered a tree that had thousands of devil fruits. How will this one change affect the shinobi world? Read on to find out.

Chapter One: My Devil Fruit

As a shinobi the one skill that you needed to have more than any other was stealth. Your profession of information gathering required that you do so without being detected by anyone or anything. Unfortunately, sometimes you get caught while on the job. That is where the next necessary skill comes in handy. Speed.

Currently, two shinobi were hightailing it in a heavily forested area. One was wearing purple garb that signified their allegiance to the village of Otogakure, while another wore battle armour reminiscent of the Black Ops unit that multiple hidden villages use when conducting missions of an unsavoury variety. The purple garbed person also had a bag slung over their shoulder.

Multiple weapons were being hurled their way as they made their getaway. Not too far behind the two shinobi were a plethora of other shinobi, all dressed in the same purple garb with a musical note headband as one of the two shinobi running away.

"Stop them!" one of the chasing shinobi shouted at his compatriots. They couldn't allow their adversaries to make a getaway. What they had on them was too precious to let go of.

One of the chasing pack suddenly had his legs turn into springs, springs which compacted themselves, before launching him off the ground at great speeds. The man shot past the people that he was chasing within two seconds, and he continued moving ahead of them for a few more meters before he landed on the ground gracefully.

The spring-human turned and headed back the way he came, looking to cut the two rouge shinobi that were making away with their prize. His plan was simple. He was going to duck behind a tree and wait for the opportune moment to jump out, surprise the hell out of the two runaways, and kill them while they were surprised.

Unfortunately for the brave shinobi of Otogakure, he had been spotted by the other two while he was in mid-air, so by the time he thought about coming out from behind the tree he had been hiding in they were waiting for him to make his move.

It all happened in slow motion. As the Oto shinobi jumped out from behind the tree, the man wearing a uniform that matched his own had two swords already drawn out. One was a tanto made from steel that was so shiny that it looked white, while the other was slightly longer than the tanto, but it had a blade made out of pure electricity.

"Nitoryu: Shiroi Inazuma (Two sword style: White Lightning)." were the last words the spring-human heard before he was unceremoniously cut down by an X-shaped beam that crackled with lightning.

While the man's attempt at stopping the two rouge shinobi might have been unsuccessful, he did manage to slow them down somewhat as the chasing pack made up some ground thanks to their comrade's actions.

The two runaway shinobi realised this as well. The one wearing a black ops uniform, a female, said as much, "We're not gonna make it to the border."

Her partner knew as much. One of two things would happen within the next several minutes. Number one: They would continue making a run for it, try to get to the border, fail to do so, and then the package would not make it to home base. The other option was to make a sacrificial play. One of them would have to stay behind to hold off their pursuers. It would most probably result in their death, but at least they could fulfil their current objective.

"What I wouldn't do to have Hokage-sama's powers right now." The Oto uniform wearing shinobi said. Indeed, if he had his leader's powers he would have been home by now, far away from this mess.

"Yugao!" the man said to his partner, drawing her attention, "Take the bag, head back to Konoha with it. I'll-"

"I can't let you do that, Kakashi." Yugao said to her partner.

"Yugao, don't be absurd. One of us has to stay behind-"

"-Yes, and I'll be the one doing that." Yugao said, knowing full well the same thing that Kakashi did. One of them had to die in order to fulfil the current mission objective.

"Goddammit Yugao, listen to me!" Kakashi was getting angry at his partner for doing something as stupid as this. She should just listen to him and let him be the sacrifice.

"No, you listen to me!" Yugao countered, feeling her own rage bubble up slightly at her partner's wonton need to play the hero. "You are more valuable to Konoha than I ever will be."

"You're a devil-fruit user! You die last!" That was the standard mission code for every team. The first to die was the non-devil fruit user, followed by the medic of the team, before the final person to kick the bucket was the devil fruit user. This had been the standard tactic across the shinobi world ever since Senju Tobirama introduced this method of evaluating expendability back during his reign as Hokage.

"Yes, but a swordsman of your calibre is almost impossible to replace." Yugao countered, "I just happened to eat a useless fruit." Yugao was not downplaying her usefulness in the slightest. She was not the type to do so. She was just being honest with herself. Her devil fruit did nothing for her. The Neko-Neko no Mi was not a very powerful fruit.

"Regardless of power, you're still a devil fruit user!" Kakashi countered, feeling something whizz past him and hitting a nearby tree. Judging based on his experience, he had to guess that it was a kunai hitting a tree.

"Again, yes. But it's not just about the package. It's also about the info you've gathered that you need to deliver to Hokage-sama."

Goddammit, Yugao had him there. Their stock-in-trade was information gathering, and as loathsome as he was to admit it, Yugao had a point. A very good point. What good would his current mission objective be when compared to his previous one? Now that he thought about it, it would be very useful as well. Both mission objectives required him to be the one that lived to tell the tale rather than Yugao, who could only fulfil one.

Kakashi's silence on the matter was all Yugao needed to confirm that Kakashi had acquiesced to seeing things from her point of view. So, rather than say anything that might make the man reconsider, she just gave a two-fingered salute and turned around.

Uzuki Yugao did not say anything as she drew her sword from her back while also partially transforming into a cat. She did not want to think about anything beyond the actions she was about to take. She did not think about her left hand suddenly growing claws, her mission partner who she had basically coerced into allowing her to die all for the sake of a mission given his family history, nor did she consider her actual life partner who she was leaving behind.

She just had one thought in her head as she saw the enemy approaching her in droves. She was going to kill as many of them as possible before they could kill her.

Uzuki Yugao was one brave woman.

Konohagakure no Sato – Some time later

Konohagakure no Sato was a village known to house some of the most powerful shinobi in the world. There have been multiple challengers to this supremacy, but none have actually managed to overthrow this mighty village. This is in part due to Konoha possessing one of the greatest leaders in all of shinobi history in the form of Sarutobi Hiruzen.

Hiruzen is a man that has gone by many titles throughout his long and illustrious career as a shinobi. Professor, The Golden Warrior, and Shinobi no Kami (God of shinobi) are just some of the epithets that come to the fore. None of his titles have held as much weight as that of Hokage – third Hokage to be specific.

This great man, who was essentially a walking tome of shinobi knowledge and history, who had been on more battlefields than most of the shinobi of his village combined, who had seen more wars than many would think humanly possible, was currently doing his favourite thing in the world.

…Beating up young upstarts.

Metal clashed on wood as Hiruzen parried the two shuriken that were thrown his way by the boy he was currently unleashing hell-on-earth on with a staff. The boy rushed at Hiruzen with two kunai drawn, held in a reverse grip. The boy took several swipes at the form Kami no Shinobi, but Hiruzen parried these strikes with ease and followed the parry up with a low leg sweep that was so fast it caught the boy off-guard.

On his way to the ground, the boy was met with the resounding smack of Hiruzen's staff on his abdomen. The strike lifted the boy off the ground completely and sent him hurtling a few feet back. As boy met ground, Hiruzen just simply twirled his staff as if he were putting on a show for someone.

"Is that it?" Hiruzen asked the boy as he slowly got up from the ground. "I haven't moved a singly inch out of my circle."

Indeed he had not. The boy that Hiruzen was fighting had the simple objective of knocking the old man out of the very small ring with a circumference of sixty centimetres. Hiruzen had not moved an inch.

"Screw you, old man!" The boy said as he got off the ground and picked up his dropped kunai.

"Now, now Naruto-kun, what did I say about temper?" Hiruzen chided.

"Temper, shmemper!" Naruto said as he went on the assault once again. Hiruzen just sighed under his breath as the boy bum-rushed him. These kids, they never listened to their superiors.

'Oh well.' The old man thought to himself as a small smile of contentment made its way onto his face, 'At least I get to have fun beating him up.'

Ah, it was the simple things in life that made it so worthwhile.

Hi no Kuni border - Sometime later

The scene that the Amegakure (Hidden Rain) shinobi that had been dispatched by their leader came across was nothing short of a blood bath. All around them they found bodies and body parts that now clearly belonged to the deceased. There were blood splats on trees and what was once luscious grassland.

If you wanted to identify the people lying scattered around the forest you would have a terrible time of it. There was nothing to identify them by except their uniforms and headbands.

The Amegakure shinobi, who were decked out in dull yellow onesies and purple gas masks, could only stare at the absolute carnage wrought on these poor souls with one question in their minds: who could do such a thing.

"So," a very deep and commanding voice cut through the silent wonderment of the gathered living shinobi. He was a somewhat tall figure, with orange hair that seemed to love being unruly. He wore a purple coloured, sleeveless onesie that was accompanied by a purple flak jacket. On his forehead rested a headband with the Amegakure insignia etched on it. "This is the famous Otogakure that has been giving everyone so much trouble, huh?"

Clearly, the man was not impressed.

"Yahiko-sama what are you doing here?" One of the gathered kunoichi said in shock, not having sensed the man appear at all. He had not been dispatched with them when they left the village.

"Are you saying you don't need me here?" Yahiko joked.

"Of course not!" the kunoichi that had spoken up before quickly responded, "Please stay."

"As if I needed your assurance," Yahiko stated as he walked towards his fellow shinobi, "but okay."

Yahiko surveyed the scene before him with more scrutiny. The shinobi that were present were all from Otogakure, a village that popped up a few years ago out of nowhere that started causing headaches for everyone, especially Konoha.

No one knew much about this village. No one knew who their leader was or what they wanted. They did not know where it was located, as it essentially seemed to be impossible to pin down to one specific country, as Oto shinobi were found all over the Elemental Nations. It was essentially headache – the village.

"And after all the good work Nagato did." Yahiko said under his breath as he continued to survey the scene.

For a long time this was a headache that Amegakure had never felt. Until now. A few days ago Yahiko's brother-in-all-but-blood, Nagato, had returned from a mission baring good tidings. He had found a new devil fruit for Ame. A really powerful fruit from what Yahiko had heard. He just did not know which one it was as it had been stolen not long after it had been stored away in the village's Devil Fruit Repository.

Intel on the matter pinned it to the village that these shinobi belonged to. Since they were all dead then that meant that either they came across someone who was powerful enough to kill them all and take the fruit for themselves, or there was infighting over who should get the fruit, which lead to the current blood bath he was bearing witness to.

It certainly wouldn't be the first time either of those things happened, nor would it be the last. In fact, it was quite common for these things to happen. Devil Fruits were rare after all.

After spending a few more minutes studying the scene Yahiko turned to the gathered shinobi and said, "Search for the nearest fruit trees within a five-kilometre radius of this location. There are too many dead shinobi here for at least one or two of them to not have been devil fruit users."

"Hai!" the other shinobi said in unison before they quickly went about doing as instructed.

Whoever it was that had taken Amegakure's devil fruit was of no concern right now. As far as Yahiko was concerned, if his hunch on there being multiple devil fruit users among the deceased was correct, then losing one fruit, but gaining a few in return was good as far as Ame was concerned.

Still, though, he could not help but wonder exactly which fruit had been stolen.

Konohagakure no Sato

A very tired and slightly bruised Naruto was lying on his back on the training field that he had just had his butt kicked in. He was drawing on the sweet oxygen that his body craved in a slightly laboured manner. His body was hurting in places that he did not know could feel pain. Hiruzen had done a proper job on him.

"So," the old man's voice broke out over the now quiet training ground, "Ready to go again?"

"Hell…no!" Naruto answered between breaths. This old man was sadistic.

"Has the lesson on anger finally set in yet?" Hiruzen asked, planting his staff into the ground before sitting down next to the boy he was training, and leaning on the upright staff, "Or do I have to continue beating you up with my staff?"

"You're crazy…old man."

"And you're yet to land a single hit on me." Was it fair that Naruto had to try and land a hit on one of the few men throughout shinobi history to receive the title of Kami no Shinobi? Nope. But having lofty goals certain helped you achieve great things.

"That's 'cause you're freakishly strong!" Naruto all but shouted, finally having recovered enough to speak without gaps in his speech, "Then again, what else can you expect from a devil fruit user?"

"Ah, but I don't need my devil fruit to beat you." Hiruzen countered, "In fact, I don't remember using it."

"Just you wait old man." Naruto said sitting up, "When I get my devil fruit, it'll be better than yours and everyone else's."

"Really?" Hiruzen had a raised eyebrow, "Pray tell, which fruit this would be?"

"Um…" Naruto tried to rack his brain for a devil fruit that he thought would beat every other devil fruit that existed that he knew of. Granted, he did not know a lot because he was not a devil fruit nut-like Sakura-chan. That girl knew her devil fruits despite coming from a non-shinobi background. The only fruits that he knew of were of those that were close to him, and all of their fruits were awesome in their own unique way.

Hiruzen saw the boy struggling to pick out a devil fruit that could surpass every other fruit that existed. No fruit was like that. Granted, some were much better than others, but there has never been a fruit that could be claimed to be the best ever.

"Just so you know." Hiruzen began, getting the boy's attention, "There is no devil fruit that exists that's like that."

"Really?" Naruto said quizzically, his youth on the matter on full display, "I always thought there was one."

"No." Hiruzen said as he got off the ground and dusted the black battle armour that he has favoured for most of his life, "There is none."

Naruto followed suit, getting up off the ground while asking, "If that's the case, then how come Kage exist?"

"Kage exist because they are people who found a way to become strong. Not because of their devil, but rather because they had the drive and ambition to be strong." The old man said sagely.

As the duo left the training field with Hiruzen leading them, Naruto countered, "Yeah, but devil fruits certainly help out a lot. I mean, you're proof of that."

"Heh." Hiruzen found something in the boy's words to be amusing, "For someone that wants to become Hokage, you sure don't know a lot about it, don't you?"

"Hey!" Naruto felt incensed at his knowledge on what would be his future job title being called into question, "I know enough."

"You do?" Hiruzen joked, "Then tell me what was the nidaime Hokage's name and devil fruit?"

"Easy. His name was Senju Tobirama, and his devil fruit was…" crickets. Naruto tried to dredge up his knowledge on the Hokage that ruled before Hiruzen-jiji, but he was drawing a blank.

"Damn it! Why can't I remember this?" Naruto scolded himself. Everything Hokage was supposed to be his area of expertise. Everyone in school knew this. It was the one thing he was actually better at than most people, not just in the academy, but throughout Konoha.

"I'll tell you if you don't know." Hiruzen was clearly enjoying this. The old man seemed to find joy in making Naruto's life difficult. At least, that was the case as far as Naruto was concerned.

Naruto honestly wanted to say no, because that was just the type of guy that he was. He did not like doing things the easy way. On the other hand, it had been stressed to him that he had to accept all the help he can get, especially in his studies because they were a strong suit of his.

"Fine." The boy relented, "What is it?"

Hiruzen smirked as he said, "He didn't have one."

"What?"

"Yes. He is one of the only people to hold the title of Kage without ever having eaten a devil fruit." Hiruzen expanded, "You don't need a devil fruit to be strong. And even if you have a strong fruit, there's still one other thing that you need to have in spades."

"What's that?"

"Creativity."

The duo continued their walk, conversing all the way into the main living area of the village. They passed many people on their way towards their next destination, with many of them throwing a positively beaming smile their way, bowing their heads in their direction, or even outright greeting them both.

"Good morning, Hokage-sama." And, "Good morning Naruto-kun." calls rang throughout the bustling streets of the village that they called home.

Naruto, despite holding the title of Hokage in high esteem, always found the reverence that people had for Hiruzen to be weird. To him, he was just Hiruzen-jiji, the old man that liked to beat him up every other week as a form of training.

The duo eventually made their way out of the bustling streets that housed a lot of Konoha's citizenry and they entered the quieter part of the village that housed most of the shinobi populace. They came across various shinobi who were either on their way to or from, something. They all did what the civilians did, smile and greet them both.

More walking and talking eventually lead them down a path that resulted in Naruto's home coming into view. It was a modest home, not one someone would expect of a Kage. One would think that they would be living in a palace of some sort. Unfortunately for that person, they would be confusing a Kage for a daimyo.

As Hiruzen and Naruto passed through the open gates of the house grounds, Naruto started to feel a bit uneasy. He could feel that something was up. He just could not place his finger on it.

"What's wrong, Naruto?" Hiruzen asked, clearly sensing the boy's unease.

"I don't know jiji. Something feels off right now." The boy answered, clearly worried about something.

Hiruzen stopped them both and stooped down to Naruto's level, "Whatever it is, my boy, know that I'm here to protect you."

That seemed to do the trick, as the boy seemed to have his spirits pick up slightly. He had a Kage with him. The third freakin' Hokage with him. He would ensure that nothing bad happened to him.

With that said, the duo proceeded to enter the house, and immediately upon doing so, there was a huge shout that rang throughout the house.

"Surprise!"

Naruto was completely startled by the people that had gathered there in his home. His brain took a few seconds to piece together what was happening.

His mother's shout of, "Happy birthday Naruto." Only confirmed what his mind had already pieced together.

A beaming smile made its way onto his face as he turned to look at Hiruzen, who looked down at him with a beaming smile of his own.

"Ji-chan, you knew?" he asked rhetorically.

"Of course I did. And Happy birthday." The old Hokage said as he pushed the boy further into the room. That seemed to get the festivities going as music suddenly started playing and everyone that was there started coming towards him.

His parents reached him first, with his mother picking him up in a bone-crushing hug, and pelting him with wet kisses while proclaiming, "Happy birthday son."

Of course, this was to the boy's dismay, "Ew, mom! Not cool!"

"Put him down Kushina." His father said, getting said woman to do so. Naruto looked up at his dad while wiping all the spots that his mother had kissed.

"Thanks, dad." He said, grateful that the man had ended the embarrassing scene early.

"Don't mention it." The man said as he ruffled his son's hair. This also was not appreciated by the boy, but not to the same degree as his mother's actions, "Happy birthday."

"Hey, don't hog him all to yourself!" a booming voice said, drawing the family trio to the man that had said it.

"It's only been a few seconds, Jiraiya." Kushina said with a sour face.

"Yeah, well, we also wanna wish the boy well you know." Said a woman standing next to Jiraiya.

"Ero-jiji. Tsunade-baachan." Naruto said to them, getting the exact same reaction out of them both. An irritated "oi!"

"This kid will never respect us, will he?" Jiraiya asked the woman next to him, to which she answered in the affirmative with a nod.

"Speak for yourselves." Another voice chimed in from the side. It belonged to a man with pale skin and long greasy black hair. He had a drink in his hand and a small smile on his face.

"Oro-jiji!" Naruto said upon seeing the man.

"Hello, Naruto-kun. Happy birthday." Orochimaru, the so-called Oro-jiji said, before he added, "How old are you now? Twenty?"

"I'm eleven, Oro-jiji." Naruto answered with a smile on his face.

"Really? Could've fooled me. You look old enough to finally take your father's job."

Naruto blushed slightly, which did not go unnoticed by the gathered adults around him, which prompted him to be on the receiving end of their laughter. The boy decided to peel away from them; feeling embarrassed once again, especially when his life's goal was being made fun of.

He scanned the room for a few seconds, before he found exactly who he was looking for. A few short strides lead him to his best friend for the longest time, Uchiha Sasuke. Sasuke, who was standing a small throng of kids around their age, just so happened to be in the middle of a conversation with someone about something.

"Hey guys." Naruto greeted, getting Sasuke, along with the other children around their age that he was with to turn around.

"Naruto!" some of the other kids proclaimed, "Happy birthday."

"Thanks guys." The blonde boy said.

He counted some of his classmates like Sakura, Ino, and Choji among the throng of kids.

"Congrats on finally making it to eleven, loser." Sasuke said in a very cool-sounding voice while wearing a small smile on his face.

"Up yours man." Naruto replied while wearing a similar smile to Sasuke's.

"You look like a rhino stomped you."

"Worse." Naruto said, with a gloomy look on his face, "Hiruzen-jiji."

This caused a shiver to run through Sasuke's body as he remembered how sadistic the old man could be. He had only ever participated in one training session involving the former Hokage, and it was enough to put him off ever doing so ever again.

The man was evil. How Naruto put up with that level of punishment on a near-weekly basis was beyond him.

The happy birthdays and well wishes continued to pour in as more and more people came from different parts of the room to wish him a happy birthday. These included people such as the village elders, who Naruto had met on a few occasions when visiting Hiruzen-jichan's house, some notable Konoha shinobi that worked in various departments of the village, some clan heads, and even a former student of his father.

"Happy birthday Naruto-kun." A woman with brown hair and probably the best smile Naruto had ever seen said to him.

"Rin-nee-chan!" the boy exclaimed, getting a hug from said woman.

"How are you?" the woman asked after letting go of the boy.

"I'm awesome."

"Well, that's good to hear. I take it the reason you're black and blue is because of Sarutobi-sama?"

"Who else could it be?"

They had a short laugh before she produced a small box from her jacket pocket. The box was plain white with yellow ribbons tied around it. She gave it to the boy and said, "Sorry, I just came in. I hope I'm not too late for the gift unwrapping."

"Actually…" Kushina's voice cut through their conversation, "I'm here to grab him and do just that."

"Kushina-san." Rin greeted with a curt nod.

"Rin-chan, how are you?"

"I'm okay, just tired from my shift." Rin responded.

"I can only imagine what you guys go through." The older, red-haired woman said as she lead her son through a throng of people that parted for them to pass, with Rin in tow.

"It's probably worse than your imagination." Rin said with a tired smile on her face.

"I'll never understand why you put yourselves through the torture of it all." Kushina said with a small shake of her head as she finally made it to the front of the room, where all of the presents were gathered into a small heap of different-sized boxes with different colour wrappings.

"That's how I feel about you and the other battle-oriented types." Rin said as she gave her former sensei's wife the box she was about to hand to their son, "I mean, isn't all of that killing vexing?"

"Story for another time, my dear." Kushina said before she cleared her throat and shouted, "Shut up, 'ttebane!"

This had the desired effect and got the entire room to do as instructed.

"Alright, now," Kushina said as she rubbed her hands together, "I won't bore you with meaningless speeches, and instead we'll just jump right into the best part of any birthday…gift unwrapping!"

Naruto took that as his cue to walk to the first gift and unwrap it. He opened a box and found a gift card on top of an item that was wrapped in gift wrappings.

"To the boy with a big mouth." Naruto read the card out loud, getting a few chuckles from different parts of the room, "From your favourite Ino-chan." He put the card down and picked out the item that he found in the box. Removing the paper around it, Naruto found himself in possession of a new black bomber jacket that had an orange swirl on its back and just over its heart.

"Thanks Ino." Naruto said, "It's an awesome jacket."

"I know it is. I made it for you."

"Really?" Naruto exclaimed with genuine surprise.

"Yes." Ino said indignantly, feeling as if he was besmirching her name by second-guessing her creation.

"Then I'm going to take care of this even more than I normally do my other jackets." The boy said, getting a small blush out of Ino, and a few smiles from some of the gathered adults.

Ino's creations were something special. She was a fashion-obsessed person, and she happened to come from a well-off family that invested a lot of time and energy into growing plants. Plants that produced different materials. Their cotton was the best in the world from the little that Naruto had heard. Ino was talented enough when it came to fashion that she made clothes out of the materials that her family grew.

Her creations were much more durable than even the most upmarket clothing available. Then again, they did not have a litany of material to play around with.

After putting the jacket back in the box, Naruto whipped out another gift.

"To the best godson a guy could ever ask for." Naruto read aloud, before turning to look at Jiraiya, "Thanks Ero-jiji!"

"Stop using that name brat!" Jiraiya chided, but was subsequently ignored by the boy as he opened the palm-sized box and found a toad wallet inside.

"Thanks Ero-jiji. Now I can put my non-existent money somewhere." This drew in a lot of laughs from different parts of the living room.

"Heh, trust me kid. You'll be eating those words once you start to make actual money.'' The famed shinobi of Konoha said to his godson.

A few more gifts were opened, revealing that he had been presented with a book on how to garden by Sakura, a meal coupon by Choji, free medicine by Shikamaru, a brand new set of kunai and shuriken by Orochimaru.

The number of presents wilted down until only a few remained. He had yet to come across one from his parents. Knowing the type of person that his mother was, she probably thought it would be best to save their gift for last.

"Another set of kunai and shuriken…" Naruto said as he opened another gift. This was the third set he had received today, "Well, at least I won't have to spend a lot of money on restocking them now."

This, once again, drew a few laughs from those that had gathered. Eventually, though, there was one last gift left to open, and it just so happened to be from his parents.

"And now we come to the best gift last." Naruto heard his mother say out loud. Turning to her he saw both her and his father walk over to him. His father picked up the box that had been at the bottom of the pile of gifts that were there.

"I'm guessing this was your idea?" Naruto asked his mother, pointing out the ploy to hand him their gift last.

"No, it was Minato's actually." This drew a look of surprise from Naruto, and from a few others that knew the family on a personal level.

"Really?"

Naruto voice out loud

"Yep." Minato answered with a happy nod of his head, before he added, " After all, this gift will blow every other-"

Whatever else the current Hokage of Konoha was going to say died in his throat. He swiftly turned his head and looked in the direction of the closed door that lead into the living room. It took a few seconds, but a few other people similarly stared at the doorway. Namely the Sandaime Hokage, Jiraiya, Tsunade, Orochimaru, and Kushina.

The gathered kids could not understand what was going on, but they could tell from the serious expressions that a lot of the adults had that something was going on. This made them, especially Naruto, feel ill at ease.

A moment later the doors to the Namikaze household burst open, with a man wearing a purple Oto-nin uniform, and carrying a bag over his shoulder, almost flying through the doorway. The man staggered to a stop, clearly out of breath as he came to a stop just a few feet away from the person that was closest to the door, which happened to be some random shinobi.

The man, with haggard breath, simply took one look around the room, seeing the denizens inside, before he said, "Made…it…"

The man proceeded to faint on the spot, almost falling face-first onto the floor, but was quickly intercepted by Minato. The current Hokage had closed the gap between himself and the unknown shinobi in less than a second.

"Rin, come over quick." Minato ordered the first medic that he saw.

"Is that…?" Rin asked with a shaky breath as she came closer to the two men.

"Yes," Minato answered as he pulled the purple mask that the man had been wearing, "This is Kakashi."

To be Continued

Okay, first of all, welcome to my new story. This was inspired by another story I dread called Fruits of War. It's a pretty dope story that the author decided to bin. So here I am picking up the slack. Second, this is going to be a completely different world than the one you are used to.

Characters won't be the same. Some will be though for the sake of not changing things up too much. Third, I will try to stick to canon devil fruits only. Some characters will be an exception to this rule given their unique set of skills within the original series, but overall, I will stick to mainly using cannon devil fruits. So no, there won't be someone using a Mizu Mizu no Mi. Until it is canon, you won't see it here.

Forth, I haven't given up on my other stories, it's just that it's challenging writing FF, working a night shift job, working part-time as a writer, and trying to launch your business. I just don't have the time to juggle all of that at once. I only managed to get this out because it was seriously bothering me non-stop; to the point where it was preventing me from writing other things.

Anyway, that's enough from me. I want to hear from you. What did you think of the chapter? Hope you liked it. See you next time.

I'm out.