Welp, We are now over 25k words in. This is the longest fic I have made. I also started a gamer fic. I am taking inspiration from game of shadows for that. I'm not abandoning this. Ever. I love this fic to much. Anyways I have no idea what I'm writing this chapter at all. Maybe I show the knowledge naruto has picked up during the month time skip. He couldn't learn much with a mutilated arm. Its still kind of fucked up but he can use it now. He would have to fix it up some more using sasori's notes now that he can put them into practice. No naruto is not going to become a puppeteer. He is just going to put the knowledge he has into practice. I really do not know what else to put into this chapter. I have a feeling this one will be a short one but who knows
Anyways chapter 8: Repair Begin!
AN 2: Sorry to announce this but i have run out of ideas for this fic atm. I am taking a hiatus for at the very least a month. I will come back as i said i would finish this fic but i have run out of ideas for this and every other chapter.
Naruto pov
Let's see, today is the day I can finally take off the cast," Naruto said. Truth be told, Naruto got very lucky when he stumbled into one of the workshops of Sasori of the red sands. He had a lot of fucked up shit but he also had everything necessary to patch up a human body... and turn it into a puppet it seems. Normally the healing process would take a lot longer but he had the Kyuubi's chakra to help heal him. It had been a whole month of constant agony and reading but he was now recovered
It sucked that his cover was blown but he now had no reason to stay in a henge. He wanted to talk to the boy that caused this. Not for revenge but he wanted him to join him. He had figured out he was a jinchuuriki too and it seems he had a worse life than him. So he now wanted to help the boy get a better life. But he also wanted him to join him. He would need to beat him first. He needed more water jutsu as well. Maybe the water bullets would help. Also he needed to improve his already existing jutsu. Maybe learning how to make more water orbs and how to make stronger gusts of wind would help.
"And there we go" The cast was now off and naruto could move his arm freely again
Naruto got up from his chair and began cycling through hand signs he had some work to do,
"OUCH" naruto stopped going through hand signs and he clutched his arm. 'Still fucked up huh' Naruto thought. His arm still was somewhat mutilated from the boys final attack against him. He needed to find a medic. Naruto walked over to a door. 'Never thought I would actually go in here'
Naruto entered a door to a lab with lots of old puppets inside of it and a few benches and closets. It must have been filled with puppet-making supplies. Now naruto wasn't interested in puppet jutsu but he got bored of doing nothing and any knowledge was useful eventually. Fun fact puppets are made of special wood that repels termites but unluckily it was also chakra wood which aburame's bugs just loved to eat through.
"Don't know if I really would use that though" Naruto mumbled recalling his time reading sasori's notes. They were fairly detailed and any puppeteer would love to have them. Even the stuff about making human puppets would be useful to sunagakure at this moment. But he wasn't either so he could only use so much.
But he was taking all of this stuff for sure. He could use that as a bargaining chip later
Naruto opened a closet and there was some wood and hinges. He grabbed a long piece of wood and a few hinges. Sasori detailed how to make the limbs of regular puppets well enough that naruto assumed he could make something to go around his arm as well. It shouldn't be too hard right?
Naruto grabbed a measuring tape and a saw from the drawer at the desk he was at.
"Well time to get to work"
Danzo pov
The sound of something repeatedly hitting the floor could be heard as a man walked down a hallway. This man was Danzo shimura. With news of Orochimaru allying with sunagakure he saw this as a great opportunity. A great opportunity to expand the power of the roots the tree lays on. The end of an era and the beginning of something new and better. And a chance to get back what was lost if he played his cards right.
He was currently in one of Orochimaru's bases. He wanted to bargain. He was currently heading to the man's office
Suddenly he stopped as he reached a door. *Knock, knock, knock* The soft knocking could be heard throughout the halls.
"Ah yes come in" A soft yet creepy voice could be heard. This voice belonged to Orochimaru. One of the three sannin and the only one who defected from Konohagakure. After his experiments on Konoha's civilians were discovered Orochimaru had to flee and danzo had to cover up his involvement. He was annoyed at that memory. But Orochimaru was too valuable of an ally to discard for now even if his hatred for Konoha was troubling. But he could deal with that.
The door opened quietly and danzo entered and looked at the man. Orochimaru wore plain grey garbs with a black polo and pants underneath, a thick purple rope belt tied in a large knot behind his back, blue tomoe-shaped earrings, and shinobi sandals with bandages around his calves. He also had a snake-like appearance, yellow eyes, and long black hair
"Hello Orochimaru" Danzo croaked out. He meant business today and didn't have time for small talk.
Orochimaru poured out a glass of what looked like wine and took a sip. "No time for small talk I see. No matter I never cared for it either. Now, why did you decide to come to me?" Orochimaru asked. He took another sip swirling around his glass of wine. He had an idea of what Danzo's game was
"I am here to offer information. I know you have allied with sunagakure. And I know you are planning something"
"I see. Your root must be highly effective. I'm interested in your offer" Orochimaru told the Warhawk. He wasn't afraid of Danzo. If need be he would take care of him. But he wanted to see what was being offered first. The man tended to have great offers. The cells of the first Hokage were great evidence of that. He still had a lot of it even after making an arm out of it for the man
"Good. I have reason to suspect you are planning an attack on Konoha" Orochimaru looked at danzo at this. "I understand that you need a safe way in Konoha. I can disable the barrier team for you" Danzo obviously wanted something big. But Orochimaru was interested. This would save so much time and resources he'd rather not use at this moment.
"What do you want?" There was quite a bit he would give or do for this. Konoha's barrier team was a damn good one and to have it disabled would give him a sure-fire safe entrance to Konoha and an easy way to kill the sandaime during the chunin exams
"I'd assume you have heard about the re-emergence of naruto Uzumaki" Danzo wanted naruto.
Orochimaru had obviously heard from his most trusted source about naruto. Now he hasn't been able to locate him. But Danzo clearly had an idea of where the boy was. He could use this to his advantage. He could get a new pawn he just needed to ply his cards right and he could have his cake and eat it. "Yes, I have. Such a shame he disappeared. He would have made for a beautiful pawn. I'm assuming your booking for the boy" Orochimaru said
"Yes, I do. My root has proved themselves incapable of capturing the boy by themselves. They need more suitable assignments and more training" Danzo really hated saying that his tools were incompetent but the weapon proved to be too tough for them to take. But he could have them do different assignments involving the weapon. They were good at gathering information. Information about the jinchurriki.
"Hmm... Your deal is a tempting one. I think I will accept your offer... such a deal shouldn't be passed up" Orochimaru told the shadow of Konoha. "Now about your end of the deal"
Kazekage office
"You still haven't found the boy yet?" Asked rasa. He truly was impressed by this person. The boy was critically injured but yet was able to hide from suna's best for so long. He was likely nursing his injurys back to health by now.
"No not yet kazekage-sama but I assure you we will fi-" The commander of sunas anbu was cut off by the kazekage
"No, you will stop your search for the boy. I will take matters into my own hands" Rasa decided that he should take matters into his own hands. This boy could be outfitted to be a key to winning against konoha even with gaara. Konoha had proven to be able to take down bijuu before. Albeit with the sacrifice of their kage but to be fair, it was the strongest bijuu.
"B-but kazekage-sama its just one person" The commander of the anbu said.
"I'd much rather have my anbu prepare for our upcoming venture instead. I can look for the boy myself" Rasa told the man.
"I see. What are my next orders to give to the rest of the anbu?" Asked the commander
"I want you to sabotage supply chains to the land of fire. Make the anbu as prepared as possible. Go over key locations in konoha and prepare attack routes" Rasa ordered his anbu commander.
"Okay kazekage-sama" The commander responded before leaving to spread their kage's word
"Now i need to begin" Rasa did a few hand signs as gold sand appeared. "Magnet release: Multi Golden eye jutsu" Rasa called out willing his gold dust into multiple eyes that he could see out of. 'Go and look for the boy that damaged gaara' he ordered mentally.
The gold dust eyeballs spread out to different locations in sunagakure looking for the boy.
Rasa looked down at his desk *Sigh* "Why is there so much paperwork?" He asked himself. Four large stacks of paperwork greeted his sight
"Why can't I find a successor sooner," Rasa said. He was tired of this shit and pakura didn't want the hat.
He looked up again sighing. He needed a break. Maybe he could try and be a better father to his children
Rasa looked back at the now doubled paperwork.
"Jumping out the window looks tempting," He said as he looked at the window noticing his son kankuro arguing with a random shinobi.
Sasuke pov
It had been a few hours since the time kakashi said he'd show up passed. Sasuke was hungry, tired, and pissed. Mainly at kakashi but his teammates were pissing them off as well. Sakura was hanging off of him like a lost puppy. And sai... well he was sai. But he kept calling him "dickless" for some reason and that was getting annoying.
Sasuke looked at the 11-hour mark on the clock. It had just been reached.
Suddenly there was a poof of smoke that appeared to the three genin
"Sorry I'm late. A black cat crossed my path so I had to take the long way around" Kakashi rubbed the back of his head
"LIER!" Shouted sakura shaking her hand at kakashi. Sasuke covered his ears
"Ma, ma relax it was just a few hours" Kakashi raised up his hands in defense. "Now that we have that sorted let's talk about the rules for your genin test" Kakashi finished
"TEST, We already passed the graduation exam" Sakura shouted. Sasuke kept his ears covered
"Yeah what's the meaning of this Kakashi?" Sasuke asked. Sai continued to be quiet
"You didn't think it would be that easy didn't you?" Kakashi asked as sakura and sasuke ew quiet. Kakashi sighed "Every year when genin pass the graduation exam only 33% of students pass"
"Thats dumb" Sasuke spoke up
"I don't make the rules" Kakashi pulled out two bells. "Only two of you can pass, You need to grab a bell to pass" Kakashi explained
'I see so this is a test of love!' Sakura thought.
'I need to get a bell. I cannot let these losers distract me' Sasuke thought.
'This is clearly a test to see if we can work together. Sai thought.
"Come at me wit the intention to kill" Kakashi told the genin-wannabe
"Won't we hurt you though kakashi-sensei?" Sakura asked. She was concerned for her sensei's safety since sasuke was going to be fighting him
"Don't worry about me sakura. Im a jonin for a reason. Now Begin" Kakashi said as the genin went to go hide
Naruto pov
"Its done" Naruto told himself He was holding up a wooden arm brace that would strengthen his arm and reduce the pain when making hand seals. It looked like the arm of a puppet but it was fitted to naruto's arm. It Had the bottom carved out of it and straps that would lock his arm in place "Traded one cast for another" Naruto said. He basically did trade out his old cast for a new one. But this time he could defend himself and be able to move it.
Naruto set up a puppet. He made it stand up and lock in place. Naruto began cycling through hand seals for the water style: gunshot. He was going to be practicing his aim and power
"Water style: gunshot!" Naruto shouted. He shot three orbs of water at the puppet. Two of them screeched toward the puppet hitting where the left lung would be and the solar plexus. The third one landed at the concrete wall. It made a dent in the concrete.
"Damn I suck," Naruto told himself. He was aiming toward the stomach area. He missed all three shots. " If I suck this bad I can't ever win" Naruto wanted to beat the boy who kicked his ass thoroughly. He wanted to make him join him on his journey to get stronger and to gain more allies. His sand-controlling power could be useful for restraining jigen. Naruto looked at the mark on his disfigured hand. It was pulsing still. He had long since gotten used to this feeling. "Seriously though when will this stop? This is getting annoying" Naruto even though he was used to it still hated the pulsing. It made his hand itch and for a whole month it was broken and he couldn't scratch it
Naruto cycled through hand signs again "Water style: gunshot!" Naruto shouted and this time the bullets were slightly closer to the target. "They do say practice makes perfect for a reason I guess," Naruto told himself as he kept cycling through hand signs
He had a lot of work to do if he wanted to catch up to the redhead. He should gather info on his fellow jinchurriki. "Maybe I could do that actually" Getting info on your opponent was something drilled into naruto from day one. If he didn't have the right info he could die. Maybe he could also steal better jutsu as well. Anything better could help. Naruto saw what C-ranked jutsu did to the boy's defenses.
Naruto quickly grabbed a cloak from a closet. Sasori liked to put these on his early puppets it seemed then he put on a henge to get rid of his whisker marks and change his eyes to purple. He liked purple. Then he left sasori's workshop. Remembering the alleyway he entered and exited and left to go get information
Random kara base.
"Where am I?" A half-dead sick voice rasped out.
"Your in a safe place" Said Amado.
"Safe?" The man tried to move but couldn't
"You had third-degree burns all over your body" Amado said
"Where am I? What happened to me? What happened to my body? *Cough*" The man asked. Fear evident in his sick voice
"Currently you are in the land of wind. You got burned by a stray jutsu from a shinobi fight, and your body has been... replaced..." Amado explained
"Replaced!" The man suddenly sprung up after hearing shinboi caused the state he was in. He always hated them. Causing pain to him and his family. He was forced to live in a ninja village because of that. Now shinboi destroy his body.
"Yes we had to um replace your body with more modern equipment and puppet parts. We are sorry for your loss" Amado said.
"We?" The man now part cyborg/puppet said. He was handed a mirror by amado. He looked like some sort of battle machine.
"Yes kara as an organization seeks to destroy the shinobi lifestyle and shinobi in general. One of our own saw you and decided to bring you back here" Amado explained. He saw the man's yellow eyes light up at the mention of getting rid of shinobi.
"I see. Could I perhaps join your organization?" Aske the man.
Suddenly a jigen walked in "Yes. Just tell us your name first" He said in his standard monotone voice.
"Grievous" Grievous replied.
He was handed a kara cloak by jigen and grievous put it on "Could you please give me some more... ways to kill shinobi" Grievous asked bluntly
"Amado, please give our new member more firepower. He really needs it anyway" Jigen ordered the scientist.
"Im on it. Okay you won't feel anything from this" Amado said. It seems like he was prepared for this already which grievous took note of
Chapter end
Holy shit that was longer than expected. I honestly expected this to only be 2k words but the ideas just flowed out of me. Yes i know general grievous is a star wars character but he is too badass and kara needs more power. Speaking of them i will have them be more involved soon as now there are other oc members i have to show. Also I hope you enjoyed this chapter. Anyways We have reached over 25k words! Exciting right? A quarter of a hundredK is quite a bit imo
Anyways this was the eighth chapter. I can say expect another chapter for Ningyō asobi soon(If you care). Not this week but maybe the weekend.
Anyways Question of the chapter time. What kind of ice cream is your favorite? Mine is cookie dough personally.
Tobi-kun out!
Also i know this chapter is early but hey i had free time!
