Hello everyone, this fanfiction is me changing a lot of things about Naruto, setting up the world Naruto came from for my other crossover fanfictions. I hate a lot of things about the original Naruto series. Lost the hard work theme and instead became a bunch of nukes for no reason other than to look cool.
Personally, I don't mind the explosions but the problem I have is what they take way from the story. Not every solution can be solved with nukes ya know.
I also took away all Jesus transformations except Six Paths. Also there is no ninja Jesus or perpertual reincarnation or any of that bullshit here. Unacceptable! That just downplays the twos hard work and... Ever wondered how the show would be if Hagoromo was like yo, you low key remind me of my son instead of saying, so you my son's reincarnation. Good grief (sighs)
Look, I really hate how a lot of shounen characters just get power-ups for every hard enemy the face. Don't get me wrong, Naruto and Kurama becoming partners was insane but what happened afterwards just spoiled it for me. Yet another transformation. Why not just outright summon Kurama to fight side by side with him? With this in mind this Naruto uses 9MB. Yes like Menma.
Why? Let me explain myself.
You see friends, abilities in Naruto tend to overshadow the character.
Think I'm lying? Then let me give you examples,
Kakashi no sharingan = to weakling... No, like no, that's just downplaying the guys great experience and all his hardwork. People can't believe Boruto era Kakashi is much stronger than War Arc Kakashi simply because of pink eye and space hole. Okay, pink eye and space hole are high key OP NGL.
It's the same with Naruto. Take away Naruto's healing, shadow clones, Kurama (RIP. Bullshit death though), Sage Mode and he is basically useless(which is true in this sense because unlike Kakashi, he has no experience, didn't work hard enough, hardly any skill)compared to other characters and I feel that that's because the show always makes him transform.
We hardly see any results of his growth. My man Naruto went on a three year training trip and only learned to make a bigger Rasengan, still was emotionally rash despite being trained by an S-ranked shinobi and never showed any other skills except Rasengan.
What the actual fuck. This guy gets saved by luck and friendship every time and I'm sick of it. Fuck it! This guy hardly worked and he is ninja Jesus. So much for the underdog.
Naruto gaining KCM took away the potential growth he could go through to improve his abilities as a Shinobi. When you think of it, it's Kurama's power not his and as such Naruto is not a powerful Shinobi in my eyes. Repetitive tactics, same jutsu, luck, do I need to continue.
Having 9 masked beasts to fight alongside will help in my eyes as it is clear that those things are manifestations of Kurama's power meaning that anything amazing he does will be on him and we can be proud of his achievement...
Itachi Uchiha, man is still op without his eyes.
Hiruzen, crazy good at nin jutsu and can fight without his staff
Jiraiya, no toads but still a plethora of jutsu to use. Insane quick and is good at seals.
Minato, no flying thunder, skilled at nin jutsu, fast, a genius, good at seals
Do I fucking need to continue? How come some characters just don't get... No I am just whining like a child at this point, I really am sorry. Just note that I'm also developing concepts. Also I hate Boruto, I just check on it every now and then to keep an eye on the e Otsutsuki. They are the only ones I am interested in. Other characters are beyond saving to me.
I am sorry for ranting, enjoy the chapter
The Ninja World
The seedlings of shinobi history were planted more than 5 thousand years ago.
There two men who had a mother who was an alien that descended into the world in a bright flash of light. Her name was Otsutsuki Kaguya and she had arrived to do her clan duties, namely becoming food for the ten tails that had disguised itself as a tree.
Her flashy arrival was quite intentional as she wanted to take advantage of the fact that her appearance was in likeness with the creatures of that land. She and her clanmates had noted that her appearance was captivating in their eyes and as such she had hoped she would be taken into a lord's harem so she could have great access to potential vessels.
She was found by a young prince, a man who was a perfect example of a knight who could be found in fairy tales. His conduct, and chivalry and among other things were quite excellent, making him a very charming man.
This man took her into his custody when he found her "injured" after she claimed a stone had fallen from the sky and injured her. He was too ensnared by her beauty to notice how odd her claim was. Like why she was not but a bloody smear as she was in a large crate. One of his smarter men was able to pick up on this but was quickly silence by Kaguya via a form of mind invasion.
Everything was set up perfectly for her because being taken care of by the prince offered her various opportunities to interact with the people of the land, allowing her to assess potential vessels. She found one and her name was Airi, who was a maid assigned to her.
A few years passed and there were a plethora of changes. She spent a lot of time with the young prince, she had found that she had fallen in love with him and hopelessly so, to the point that she started to humanize herself. This eventually caused her to begin doubting her clan as she had started to become human (mentally) and learned virtues like empathy.
And so she later decided that she would protect her lord's homeworld and lured her partner to the God tree before incapacitating him with a powerful poison and then proceeding to use a large scale attack and left, believing that she had managed to kill him.
It is worth noting that Kaguya ripped off the lower part of his body and took it with her before blasting him it nothingness.
The partner later hijacked a monk's body but that's a story for another time. The tree they had being protecting began to bear a fruit.
The prince's father later expired, abdicating his throne to his son.
Unfortunately for the new king, a war threatened his domain and hisa people so lots of preparations were made to combat enemies. The time came and his nation was invaded by rival states. Because of the king's pacifist attitude and inexperience in war (Contrary to his father who was a great warlord), it would have been easy for the invaders but unfortunately for them, the land was under the protection of Kaguya Otsutsuki.
Kaguya was confused about how humans always insisted on fighting. Her clan was different as infighting was not only rare, but frowned upon. This was because the clan had a hierarchy that was present that prevented such from happening. With this logic in mind, she determined that the best course of action was to bring every nation to the King's feet.
That wasn't within the realm of impossibility with her abilities but she knew that these humans were capable of exhausting then killing her. She needed power and there was only one source...
She dropped Ishikki's lower half in the monster's maw increasing the quality of the fruit.
She then ate the tree's fruit and gained an enormous amount of power and single-handedly stopped all human wars and brought all nations under her lord's grasp. The new empire was named The Land of Ancestors to symbolize the Emperor's dream of fathering a great number of generations that would revolutionalize the world and change it for the better.
Year passed and Kaguya was officially recognized as his wife with Airi as his concubine and they ruled the empire benevolently until time did it's duty.
Her husband and Airi expired and she was stricken with grief but decided to keep ruling the world in their honor and make sure that the people never suffered.
She was hailed the rabbit Goddess for close to 300 years but that image slowly morphed into a demon. Despite all the time she spent with the humans, she was emotionally immature and her losing her husband really hurt her. Not to mention human ideologies clashed with her clan's ideologies so she was torn.
She didn't have anyone to confide to and she wasn't exactly liked by the harem so she was alone. She was powerful, too powerful, far beyond the comprehension of mortals so naturally, she was feared. She was never corrected when she did wrong so she eventually felt wrong was right and so she occasionally committed great atrocities thinking she did the right thing. She was feared as a demon.
Kaguya remembered that she had betrayed her clan, so they would come for her: her home, her children, her nursery. She needed power, a lot more and so populations suddenly started decreasing whilst a certain tree started regaining its former lustre.
She was lonely for 300 years but suddenly got the idea to revive her husband which she did as her inhibitions had deteriorated significantly. He was horrified by all the crimes against humanity she committed but he too was too afraid to take action against her. She later got pregnant and the Emperor attempted to kill her in her moment of weakness to save his people. Big mistake. Classic yandere story ending.
She was quite negligent when it came to her sons and had them raised by the people. The people were afraid of the children at first but grew to love them as they used the powers they gained for the people's good and the children were treated like royalty just like their mother was at an earlier time. But unlike before, they took to correct them when they did wrong and formed solid bonds with them and as such grew up to be wonderful men.
As soon as the children gained a sense of self, they secretly began practising with their power so they could save all these wonderful people from their mother. Through their hard work and connections with the people, they became virtuous men.
Kaguya later became jealous due to the fact the people loved her sons far more than her and because of that had them called back to reside with her in her domain. Their relationship started relatively well but things became sour when the two found their lovers in the tree. Of course, they occasionally visited the tree without her knowledge for intelligence purposes.
During one of their trips to the tree, they met creatures that their mother created sometimes to impress and entertain her lord. They were made from the essence of the god tree which was connected to nature and as such these creatures gained the ability to detect nature energy and mix it with the energy that was in likeness with their creator albeit far weaker.
These creatures (summons) taught them how to connect to the power of the world itself and use it to enhance themselves and this gave birth to the state known as a sage mode. Due to their unique chakra properties, nature energy didn't just mix with their power, it changed it and that gave birth to Six Paths Chakra which could stand up to Otsutsuki chakra. (They were half-human so their Otsutsuki chakra weakened and transformed itself so it would not harm them as their bodies were not as powerful as the Otsutsuki).
Kaguya immediately detected this power and felt threatened and used to her Byakugan to confirm her suspicions and ended up feeling betrayed because she found out her sons were going to rebel against her.
There was a confrontation when Kaguya felt betrayed and arbitrarily decided their power should be hers but the sons managed to escape because they awakened their innate Otsutsuki power the Rinnegan, and Tenseigan. Working together, they opened a rift and landed in a pocket dimension born from both of their eyes. A pocket dimension that would be their grave.
They didn't waste time. They prepared for the battle to come.
By the time they returned they found that their mother had merged with the tree and was rampaging around the world in search of them. For reasons unknown to them, Kaguya just assumed that the blast she used sent them flying so fast that her eye couldn't track them. Her sons had disappeared and Kaguya suddenly regained her motherly side and felt that she didn't have it in her to kill her sons so she sealed away her conscience and merged with the God tree.
Hamura and Hagoromo engaged the monster (Canon, no Susanoo, no Sharingan, they just fought the thing and later sired children, spread ninshu and stuff), and fought it for 3 days and 3 nights, permanently warping the world's geographical integrity. They managed to defeat the creature and seal it into Hagoromo as he had the stronger body.
They later decided to reduce people's suffering by deleting memories related to the 10 tails which is why it was never recorded in history.
Hamura only had two children, and their names were Hyuga and Kaguya.
Hagoromo had two, they were Indra and Ashura.
Hamura decided that his children shouldn't carry his surname whilst Hagoromo decided the opposite. His two sons would later establish great clans that would use their names as surnames.
Hagoromo's children also had children
Asura had Senju whilst Indra had Chinoike and Uchiha.
Before that occurred, Hamura went to the moon after making sure the tides didn't do more damage to the planet and took his wives with him but left Hyuga and Kaguya on Earth. It is to be noted that Hamura had compulsive sexual behaviour so he had a whole clan up there which took the Otsutsuki name. Hamura had a small harem with 3 women whilst Hagoromo stuck to monogamy.
After his brother's departure, Hagoromo traveled the world spreading chakra and nin shu. Just like how his and Hamura's chakra changed as to not harm the individual, the same happened with humans. The individuals who were: trapped in the tree but recovered in time by Hagoromo and Hamura, descended from Hamura and Hagoromo, or descended from creatures created by Kaguya developed peculiar abilities which would later be called kekkei gen kai.
Back to the story, Hagoromo later gained a large number of followers and from this large number, he had a small group he called the apostles of ninshu who were the closest humans to him besides his wife.
Indra his son was talented but found that he could not mold chakra like his father and accidentally created hand signs whilst spanking the monkey when he was around 13 and in his adolescence and was "discovering" himself. He made a tiger sign whilst doing the act and ejaculated out a stream of fire. He had discovered that directing chakra to his penis elevated the sensation so when he made the tiger seal he accidentally changed his chakra nature to fire and shot out napalm from his dick.
Hagoromo was rather amused whilst Asura was confused. In the end, they decided to tell the lady they lived with (mother/wife) that Indra had consumed spicy food and awakened his powers causing him to breathe fire. All this was done whilst Hagoromo was snickering much to the duo's confusion. Indra was embarrassed.
Later in life, Indra would travel with his mother and they would be ambushed by bandits, Indra and his party managed to fend them off however the bandits were able to kill his mother. This caused him to awaken a new set of eyes, diluted from the Rinnegan but still had considerable power. This new power was used to reduce the offenders into nothingness through black flames. Unfortunately, his comrades got caught in the flames as well and as such was also reduced to mere dust. By the time Indra had figured out how to kill the fire, it was far too late. They were gone. He lost his mother and his best friends. He knew he couldn't blame the world because some were innocent and had nothing to do with this.
He blamed himself. He broke.
Black Zetsu stepped in and surely you know what happened next.
Later the tailed beasts were created and Indra spread ninjutsu to humans in hopes that they'd use it to defend themselves from each other but ended giving humans better guns to fight with.
Hagoromo perished and placed a transcription seal on himself set to the condition that when he died his body would be sealed away in the pocket dimension he and his brother created. Of course, Hamura did the same so their powers could not be taken from their corpses which is rather comical as that is the place where Uzumaki Naruto gained would gain his Six Paths Powers, more on that another time.
A Decade After Hagoromo's Death
For some reason, Hagoromo completely forgot to warn people that generating chakra required a lot of resources such as food and for that reason, the world was flipped upside down when the farmers became kings had armies of superhumans whilst the old rulers were dethroned. These superhumans didn't steal because nin shu allowed them to connect to each other's hearts and prevented animosity amongst them, for a while at least. Ninshu was forgotten and ninjutsu was favored and this was because of a certain Otsutsuki who did not like it when he was poisoned and had his body ripped in half.
The monk, who was taken over by the Otsutsuki, made an act to erase all traces to nin shu as an act of revenge against Kaguya, destroying one of the pillars that maintained the world's peace.
At some point Asura and Indra fought this man but they were decisively defeated. The Otsutsuki removed all memories related to him and left the scene to slumber.
The wars that occurred afterward formed the 5 Great Nations and other smaller nations.
Because superhumans would cause collateral damage which would affect the world's people, they were commonly used as assassins instead and these assassins would later become shinobi. The superhumans trained to protect the rulers and their domains would become known as Samurai.
A period of relative peace came before a series of events occurred such as the great scramble or Indo-Asuran wars.
Indo-Asuran Wars
Shinobi and samurai were thrown into wars because of Indra and Asura's sons feuding over Hagoromo's decision, they eventually forgot what their reason for fighting was but continued to do so anyway. Senju's and Uchiha's descendants had many allies. After all, in that era, it was either you were for Senju or for Uchiha. This in turn caused the great scramble which was a series of events that were related to jealousy.
Some clans were jealous of other clan's abilities such as their kekkei gen kai and technology and as such clans took the Indo-Asuran wars as an opportunity to attack their rivals and kidnap their children to gain what they wanted, so that they could rise to be on the same level as the Senju and Uchiha. This later caused many clans to fall whilst new ones rose before they fell again and others rose. This continued for over a thousand years.
It was around this period when the meaning of being a shinobi would be warped as a lot of clans abandoned the typical sneaky approach and outright battled each other.
Those Who Were Named God
Taking advantage of these conflicts, the daimyo of the land of fire decided to make a game where the strongest shinobi of the generation would be named God of shinobi after Hagoromo and would be showered with great honors and preferential treatment when it came to missions.
The other daimyos decided to join in on the game and began giving famous people with the most achievements the title God. This later became a problem as the Daimyo were civilians and could not properly scale shinobi as in their eyes some shinobi seemed equal in combat prowess which was not the case at all.
What the daimyous didn't understand however was the fact that many people believing in one thing would eventually cause the chakra they radiated to coalesce and become what they believed in. In this case, people believing in someone being a god yielded a strange phenomenon after about a thousand years, which was named Shinobi Deification.
As such it caused only individuals who were in the extremes of combat prowess relative to the strength of the people of not only their generation but the previous 6 generations.
There can never be two.
When a Shinobi God dies, another one won't be chosen for about 3-4 years.
There can be candidates, they gained a boost in power as well.
People believing in this made the process autonomous, meaning that a shinobi reknowned for his strength would likely get it. Though they would have to prove their power somehow such as Hashirama single handedly forcing three clans to retreat without so much as a scratch.
Or Kenshin Uzumaki nearly killing the three tails in a 1 on 1 fight.
If an individual seemed equal with a bunch of others then they did not qualify. This caused clans to embellish their heirs with achievements to make them appear above all others but this failed immediately. Probably had nothing to do with the Senju, Uchiha, and Uzumaki clans.
Most generations didn't have a God of Shinobi but they did have a plethora of famous ninja.
This little game ended up strengthening conflicts and hatred which was directed at three clans. Senju, Uchiha, and the clan that broke off from the Senju because they were against conflict, the Uzumaki.
A lot of people believing in one thing didn't just manifest creatures or phenomena in a snap, it took a lot of time and as such this process started appearing 1 500 years before canon.
Surprise, surprise most Gods came from these 3 clans mostly. The title God of Shinobi was a political tool that made the clan that owned God most likely to get missions and that didn't sit well with the others.
Many alliances were formed to get rid of them but they were all defeated in every attempt which made all three clans arrogant, especially the Uchiha. The alliances then tried capturing the tailed beasts which just pissed them off causing them to bring down fury upon the foolish humans. Some of the beasts were more lenient to the humans' greed others were not which ended up causing a rift between them.
This gave birth to the misconception that the more tails a tailed beast the stronger it is. This statement is not accurate. Contrary, the truth is, the more tails a tailed beast possessed the more chakra it had which didn't dictate its strength and combat prowess. This list is from strongest to weakest:
Kurama, Shukaku, Gyuki, Saiken, Son Goku, Kokuo, Chomei, Isobu, Matatabi
This list is in regards to combat prowess not destructive capability.
Also, side note, it was discovered chakra lowered and times at times canceled the effects of inbreeding.
320 Years Before The Birth Of Naruto Uzumaki
A shinobi whose prowess was so great that it was could only be seen in fantasies and only the sage of six paths was above him. He was so perverted that he was called the panty snatcher as he was so quick that he could steal an experienced kunoichi's underwear without her noticing.
Anyways, he and his rival, the Uchiha patriarch, God of Shinobi candidate Madara Uchiha made peace and created a village together. They were both unfamiliar with it as they were always in the front lines so the another God of Shinobi candidate, Tobirama Senju, had to come in and formed all the village's systems. This attracted various clans from all over the land of fire to join for the sake of safety. Liking this, the Fire Daimyo also relocated a large number of peasants towards the village and they immediately formed a symbiotic relationship with the ninjas.
Anyways as the clans joined, Madara with his militaristic attitude had them only donate one or more jutsus to the village that the next generation could learn and Tobirama wholeheartedly agreed. The Yamanaka donated a technique that allowed shinobi to increase thinking speed significantly, the Uchiha various fire techniques, the Senju techniques that allowed the ninja to move at their highest speeds, supersonic or hypersonic or whatever whilst reducing sound and not affecting the environment around them via elements like friction, sound barriers et cetera. Other clans donated other techniques but that doesn't matter, for now, you'll see them later in my other stories.
[It is to be noted that the Senju clan would later catch enemy spies attempting to poison their supplies to slaughter them. This caused Tobirama to get the idea of having the clan go into hiding, pretending to be nearly extinct so that the newer generations of shinobi would grow strong as they wouldn't be shielded by the forest clan's power.
The Senju Clan would only appear when the village was in peril. The clan was later killed off when the Kyuubi was extracted from Kushina Uzumaki. With the chaos distracting Kaguya's spawn, a certain Otsutsuki stepped in and slaughtered the hidden clan and helped himself to a lot of their children to create the perfect host for himself.]
Other clans in other nations saw this as a threat and decided to do the same giving birth to new villages.
Once all systems were established, Tobirama created 2 special forces units, one headed by the Uchiha which was the police force, and the Ansatsu Senjutsu Tokushu Butai. The former dealt with surface-level issues like rowdy shinobi etc and the latter dealt with issues concerning village security and quality of life of the villagers. By the quality of life, it is meant that they would monitor rich individuals so they would not harm the villagers through greed.
Also, few people know the Anbu exist and they are basically an urban legend. Tobirama did great hiding these weirdos. Anbu personel tended to enjoy stabbing things. They are ridiculous. At some point, the Anbu's existence got leaked and people were more than freaked but since they couldn't even see them they ended up becoming urban legends.
This special forces unit was so infamous that they were used, along with monsters like the tailed beasts by civilians to make kids behave. Remember adults don't take them seriously because they think they are a myth. The other hidden villages had their own special ops such as the hunter nin from Kiri.
Anyways, Madara left the leaf village because the Uchiha didn't like him and he was jealous of the people's love for Hashirama. They later fought in a place that would be later known as the valley of the end which was carved out by the 9 tails attacks, a testament to its seemingly limitless power. Hashirama won and 9 tails were captured. Madara's had set a transcription seal for his Izanagi to activate if he died and so he came back to life. He then created a clone to act like a corpse and escaped the scene.
Madara later met Black Zetsu who claimed that he was a manifestation of Madaras will. Much later Madara awakened the Rinnegan, overwriting his blindness. Zetsu then proceeded to lead Madara to the Otsutsuki Clan ruins located at the Mountains Graveyard to summon Kaguya's husk which Madara would later name the Gedo statue.'
Obviously, the Otsutsukis on the moon immediately noticed and the patriarch at the time decided to come down to Earth to search for it and he was able to find it rather quickly. He then confronted Madara who used Izanagi to reverse his age at the cost of an eye implanted in his hand. And so they fought. The Otsutsuki ruins had an effect of hiding chakra-related effects from the outside world so no one was able to detect the battle.
Black Zetsu had advised Madara to hide the Rinnegan which he did and thus setting a trap for the patriarch. Madara was able to decisively defeat the patriarch who placed a karma on him not knowing he possessed the godly dou Jutsu. He expired and Madara later used the human path with a combination of Izanagi to the patriarchs soul from migrating into his body. Madara's body would later be in likeness with an Otsutsuki which made his body powerful enough to withstand the 10 tails. All according to Zetsu's plans which had their failures due to an unknown entity stepping into the fray.
Uzumaki Naruto POV
ID:769870, Uzumaki Naruto, currently 21 (Physically 17), I am the current God of Shinobi, well I was before an encounter with Ishikki Otsutsuki.
In the bingo book, I am known by many names, depending on where you get it from but I am commonly known as the Silencer of Winds, The Destroyer, The Sage of Six Paths, and The God Killer. I am classified as an S+ flee on sight.
Threat levels are as follows: 0 which is civilians, 1 which is typically fresh from the academy, D rank means that one possesses powers beyond that of normal humans and is capable of inflicting mortal wounds without the aid of weapons.
C ranked shinobi are able to affect entire areas with their abilities, or take on a group of D ranks and win. They are very tough oppenents for D ranks to defeat but with strategy it's doable
B ranked ninjas are very powerful and typically have years of experience. They tend to excel in a particular field that would allow them to just barely threaten villages filled with D ranked shinobi.
A ranked ninjas are extremely powerful. Some may have access to an S-ranked jutsu and can threaten small villages that don't have B-ranked ninjas.
S ranked ninja are threats to entire villages. Their strength is vastly superior to that of an A rank such that it would take a group of A ranked shinobi a lot of effort to put them down. It is worth noting that there is usually a huge strength gap between S ranked ninja. Most Great Kages and some Jinchuuriki masterd are in this category. A single strike from an S ranked ninja is more than enough to kill a C-rank and a couple would incapacitate a B rank.
Capable of destroying entire platoons of ninja.
S+ ninja are ninjas that are physical threats to entire regions and possibly the world which is the category I fall into. Other examples of my mates include Sasuke, Hashirama, Minato, Hanzo (At his prime), Nagato (Nagato regain his legs during his fight with Naruto, lost because of clever tactics by Naruto and being not used to controlling his own body), Tobirama and Madara.
The strength gap between S+ and S isn't as large as A rank. A pair of well coordinated S ranked Shinobi can possible take on an S+ level shinobi. But that too varies. Hanzo can take on two of the sanin but he cannot defeat Madara or injure him.
I possess 4 kekkei gen kai, 3 from tailed beasts, and the last from Hashirama's cells.
Anyways before that allow me to give you a quick rundown of life in the leaf.
Ever since I became self-aware, I had the ability to negative emotions including those hidden deep in the hearts of individuals and I was especially sensitive to those directed at me.
I could feel it, I could feel everything. Their suffering, their loss, their loneliness, their HATE. I never felt welcomed anywhere I want, I'd get glared at, would hear whispers that served to dehumanize me, I had objects thrown at me, insults hurled at me. I was a scapegoat.
They all saw me as a monster. Even the kind old man who was the head of the village, who showered me with my first taste of affection, showed me that he did love me and acknowledged me as his grandson. It was true, I could tell but his heart also had that darkness. Resentment.
Now that I think about it, his wife died during my birth. To us shinobi, our connections are rather strong as they serve as an escape from the harsh world around us. She helped him cope. I understand now but I didn't back then. I was confused. And confusion hurt.
It hurt. It really hurts. I always felt unwelcome in his welcoming arms. What had I done for everyone to hate me so? I asked him and he just told me I'd understand when I was older. What was there to understand? I looked just like everyone else, I had skin, hair, bipedal, eyes, and emotions. Sure my whisker marks were off but were they really that weird? We lived in a world that had pupil-less people, people that looked like animals/ Had animal traits such as the Hoshigaki Clan and Inuzuka clans.
But what was so different about me? What had I done to deserve this? Why don't I couldn't understand? Everyone was sad when I was around and that hurt and I couldn't give them comfort because they rejected me. I had no friends, no connections, no home, no relatives. I was a mere cauldron for misery. I couldn't take it anymore.
Wound Healed
Again!
Wound Healed
AGain!
Wound Healed
AGAin!
Wound Healed
AGAIn!
Wound Healed
AGAIN!
Even death rejected me, my ability to heal would cage me to this world. The old man would always shed tears at my attempts and tried to have his ANBU stop me. Even if they didn't there was no point I couldn't die, I gave up on having feelings as humans, it hurt too much. I wanted to escape and maybe, perhaps...
Maybe being a ninja would finally end it all and I could be free. I could finally join my parents. I know they loved me, every time gramps told me how much they wanted me, how much loved me, the darkness in his heart wavered. I wanted to see them. I didn't want to be in this cruel world anymore. I wanted to hold their hands and laugh with them. I wanted to hear stories. I wanted to be scolded... Actually, wait that's... Nah you get the idea.
Every time I'd witness my peers playing I'd feel my envy bearing down up them.
It was unfair, I was human too right?
"gramps, let me be a ninja,"
I entered the academy 3 years before my peers. Unknown to me, this was only allowed because I was a jinchuuriki not because of kindness.
I was a failure.
Failed graduation thrice and despite the gap in experience between myself and my last class, I was still bottom. But I made friends, they didn't have that resentment toward me, they weren't like those other kids who denied my existence because of their parents' commands. I latched on to them desperately and I loved them dearly. I gained something that made me feel. I felt. I FELT...
It was happiness. I knew that the world was a cruel mistress so I desired to have an enormous amount of power and surpass those who were labeled gods. No, I wanted to be above the very Gods themselves, to oppose the fates that they force upon us mortals. The world can take my humanity but I will not allow it to take my friends. Kiba, Shikamaru, Shino, Chouji, Konohamaru, Udon, Moegi, Sasuke, Hinata and Sakura.
I fell for Sakura but sadly for me she had affections for a certain Uchiha. I cheered for her on the sidelines. Anyways I became a pervert. Kiba may have shown me magazines when I was 11. Boobies are fantastic. Well actually I'm an ass man, boobs can be faked but a good ass never lies.
Anyways Mizuki did things and Anbu stepped in, I got a new Jutsu and finally passed the exams. For the first few weeks, Kakashi sensei really whipped us into shape. We had learned water walking and tree walking. Never understood why they never taught us this in the academy but okay. We worked on chakra control, shuriken Jutsu, and taijutsu mostly but we were beginning to work on chakra shape manipulation. Academy was the theory, and joining the ninja force was practicals basically.
We decided to get our first C-rank, well I had to convince the third Hokage but he eventually relented and allowed us to have one. Wave mission.
Kakashi was amazing. He managed to decisively defeat the missing-nin Zabuza without using his Sharingan. We felt invincible, unbeatable even. It felt great that we didn't have to do much.
We finally got to chakra shape manipulation after we got to Tazuna's house and we were able to learn to create strings. Sakura got it within her first try. Sasuke and I took days.
Soon afterward, I was introduced to the unforgiving world of shinobi. We met Zabuza on the bridge and this time he was able to force Kakashi to use his Sharingan. We fought a masked girl boy I happened to meet in the woods a few days earlier. Sasuke was incapacitated.
We won the battle and that day should have been the best day of my life. My first "real" ninja mission. How foolish, I had forgotten about how everything including my humanity was taken from me. I lost my friend and love interest. Sakura. It was then and there when I finally found out that I was a jinchuuriki. I killed everyone with exception of the wave residents and my remaining family.
It was my fault and I couldn't take it anymore. I tried again.
Failure.
One of the reasons leaf shinobi are better than shinobi from other shinobi is that our village takes our ninja's mental health quite seriously. All my friends took care to comfort me even Sasuke did, in his own way. He is such a tsundere.
I had therapy whilst occasionally training with Sasuke and Sakura's replacement Sai. Took chunin exams, learned Rasengan from Jiraiya defeated Neji who challenged my idealogy and helped me strengthen my resolve, Gaara and Shukaku (Gamabunta told me his power was still rising). I was starting to become great but I wasn't fast enough.
I should have been prepared to defend her or rather inspired her to become stronger as mortality rates in genin were rather high without 100 teams, only 42 remain 4 men. Idiot.
Sasuke betrayed us and Chouji lost his life during the retrieval mission.
I never really recovered and by the time I went on a training trip with Jiraiya, I was broken but trying to collect and reshape myself, making amends with myself in an attempt to find peace.
After leaving the village gates, I swore to myself that I would become the pinnacle. The one above every creature in existence. I would become the man, the head of the household of the people I considered family. Their burdens are mine and mine alone.
I swore I would be the mortal beyond Gods.
And thus my training began.
Training Trip
A pair of shinobi marched down the road towards a nearby town. It had been a few days since they left Konohagakure. One was young and the other was entering old age. The younger one had spiky, messy sun-kissed blonde hair and had blue eyes. He was dressed in black shinobi pants and had an orange tracksuit top with the Uzumaki insignia on its back. He had pouches above his ass and on his left leg.
The older man was tall, well-built, and fair-skinned. He had waist-length spiky white hair that was tied in a ponytail. On his face were redlines which were located below his eyes. He was dressed in a green short skier kimono and matching pants under which he wore mesh armor visible at his chest, wrists, and ankles. He also wore handguards, a black belt, Geta, a horned forehead protector with the kanji for oil, and had a large scroll on his back.
"Naruto," Jiraiya called for the boy traveling with him. The boy stayed quiet, his eyes at his feet, still mourning the loss of his friend. Jiraiya stayed silent and continued walking for a few more minutes.
"Listen, kid, I understand what you have lost but we need to start training soon and you need to get into the right mindset or everything will collapse. If you remain as you are, all your friends are definitely going to die," Jiraiya warned. Naruto flinched, clenched his fists, and looked up to Jiraiya with shaky eyes. "Why did I fail? After trying so hard? I TRAINED SO FUCKING MUCH BUT WAS DEFEATED AND GOT ANOTHER ONE OF MY FRIENDS KILLED! WHY!?" he cried in emotional strife, to which Jiraiya looked at him with sympathetic eyes.
"Hard work doesn't guarantee your dreams and hopes will come true kid." Jiraiya paused letting his statement sink in. "Not everyone is talented like those Uchiha and Hyuuga brats, but just as you proved during the exams, people think of talent in a manner that is too shallow. Everyone is talented just like that Lee kid," Jiraiya placed his hand on his apprentice's shoulder. "His talent is working hard and you know how he got there? He had guts and worked with what he had not what he didn't have unlike you," Jiraiya quickly inverted the mood to harsh criticism causing the boy to flinch and look down at the ground once more.
"You care way too much about how you are seen and constantly avoid using what you have. And what you have you hardly make yourself go beyond, learn something new. And you ask yourself why you are weak." He explained. "You have the largest chakra reserves in the village so why not take advantage of that by learning to control them so you can be a terrifying Jutsu castor. Your gift is your chakra and your talent is not giving up on anything, use that talent to cling onto the positive not the negative," Jiraiya gave a wide grin. "I was just like you, you know," he chuckled as he recalled the old days while in a cell with Tsunade and Orochimaru.
"Really?" Naruto asked, his depression slowly retreating. "Yup, I got my booty poked just like you," Jiraiya ducked under a kick courtesy of his student whilst giggling.
Naruto huffed, "We don't talk bout the booty poke," Naruto responded in amusement, depression receding from his eyes.
They both burst out laughing. Then there was a comfortable silence between them as they walked.
"You are gonna hate me after this trip kid,"
"No, I am prepared to do as much as I can to be strong"
"Good, I have a few things I want you to achieve by the end of our trip"
"Which are?"
"Well for one, you must at least be strong enough to escape an S-ranked nin. The second goal is to have you highly resistant to illusions of any form. Thirdly you have master your nature affinity and combine it with your Rasengan," Jiraiya proceeded to hand him a slip of paper.
"Channel your chakra into it"
Split
Naruto was visibly confused and looked at Jiraiya. "Your affinity is wind, that paper there is sensitive to chakra nature and so depending on one of five reactions, your affinity is that which caused it. We'll talk about it in length during training but for now, just know what I want is to is to have you know 6 B-rank from every element that is not your affinity," Jiraiya nodded and turned to look at his companion.
"Also I've noticed you don't seem to know shadow clones transfer memories back to their creator,"
Naruto blinked
"Say whaaa?"
End
Shadow Clone Jutsu is only known by a handful of people. It's a forbidden jutsu for a reason. hate how Kishimoto just tossed that out the window.