禁断のスクロールの物語
Forbidden Scroll of Stories

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EDIT (9/13/20): Removed the scroll listing. It's easier to keep the open short like this.

Naruto and Teams Seven, Eight, Nine, and Ten, have returned to Konoha. The Fourth Shinobi World War has ended, and the Akatsuki and Tobi with Kabuto were slain along with their massive clone army. But remnants of their forces still existed and this was one of those missions to take out the surviving clones. They were injured, but everybody survived the army remnants of the White Zetsu. However, it was an item of interest that Haruno Sakura had found after the all-out assault: a purple sealed scroll with gold center and with a blood-red border edge. The entire scroll was covered with a series of various different unintelligent runes. Because of this strange oddity it was brought back to Konoha.

"So, what is this?"

"All I was able to make of it was Kinshi Sho no Monogatari (Forbidden Scroll of Stories)," Shikamaru explained to the Godaime Hokage.

Tsunade was interested by the name, but also mystified; how can a story scroll be forbidden? She would have to get Jiraiya here... that is if he was in the village in the first place.

"Naruto, summon a toad and tell it to get Jiraiya here."

"No need hime, I'm here," Jiraiya said, jumping in through the window. Yes, unlike in the official canon of the series, in this for all intended purposes, Jiraiya is STILL alive and survived being murdered by the Akatsuki before the war. Otherwise, it'd be strange seeing a dead man walking around... it's an entry story for a fanfic, whatcha think?

"Jiraiya-sensei, why do you have a black eye?" Naruto questioned the Pervy Sage. Although, he had an inkling as to why he got one. Tsunade seemed to share the same thought and gave a critical gaze to the toad hermit.

"Uh... I tripped."

Everybody stared. The looks on their faces told Jiraiya immediately they didn't believe him.

"No, seriously, I did!"

"Sure," Naruto says with an air of dismissal.

"You brat, I'm telling the truth."

"Doesn't matter, you perv," Tsunade buts in, before handing the rather giant scroll to the sage, "can you decipher this?"

"Eh, what is this?"

"Was found when these kids here joined the other village teams in dealing with the remnants of the clone army from the Fourth Shinobi War."

"... Forbidden Scroll of Stories, huh? Why so forbidden?"

"We found this in the middle of a clearing when the battle ended and all the White Zetsu remains were destroyed," Naruto told the man, "Sakura-chan was strong enough to carry the thing back here."

"Well, why didn't you try anything with it? I taught you much about seals," Jiraiya said, setting it down on the table, as the other Jōnin crowded around him.

"Yeah, well I broke the first seal but then it refuses to unravel, so we brought it back here," Naruto said sheepishly.

"I see... well it won't take long now that I'm here."

"You all go and relax. I'll call you all back when Jiraiya breaks the seals keeping it shut," Tsunade said, dismissing the Konoha-nin.

It would take a week until Jiraiya, with help from ANBU Intelligence Gathering had finally unraveled the complex seals. Jiraiya found it to be quite a challenge, but everyone was called back. But, upon opening the scroll, they invited in various different memory seals, each one vastly different from the last...

The scroll, as they begin to learn, was different from the scrolls they were used to.

It was as if... it came from another world...