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bankai777: I might do that.
thor94: I kinda did that though not at that extent otherwise the story would be a bit similar to my other one, Uchiha Terumi Naruto. Nevertheless, don't worry because most of them will pay.
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Ichiro7545: Thank you my loyal friend xD. Yup, I made Minato supposedly (and with a lot of reluctance, I might add) the bad guy as I didn't want Naruto to lay hands on the Hiraishin as It coupled with Mokuton and a few other things I gave him in this chapter he probably-would be able to take on Gods himself. Thank you for your amazing support and I'll be writing the next chapters for my other two stories as soon as I can.
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I'll probably make this one an Harem though, no more than 6-7 girls. And I'm not doing lemons as I'm sure It would sound awfully bad as my grammar is not decent enough for that type of things.
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Chapter 2: Growing up & Kazekage
Nami no Kuni - Hideout
A figure could be seen in the middle of several craters.
A tall, well-built man, blue eyes and spiky, blonde hair with jaw-length bangs framing either side of his face. He wore black armour with a distinctive white fur collar over a simple black suit. This armour is constructed from numerous metal plates, formed into multiple protective guards along his body. Beneath his shoulder armour he wore two bands on each arm. Two pouches strapped to each leg. White bandages wrapped around his ankles followed by black sandals. Finally, strapped on his waist was a pure black coloured Katana with a red and black yin-yang on the hilt and a fox demon engraved onto the blade, the Kaminoikari.
This was Uzumaki Naruto, now 17 years-old.
For the last 3 years he has been training relentlessly on every Shinobi arts he could. Although in his childhood he only had a knack for Ninjutsu, during this last few years he discovered his insane talent for Kenjutsu and Fuinjutsu as well.
But the one thing he has been working on since the Day One was his Kekkei Genkai.
Flashback
Naruto woke up on his new bed. He couldn't remember the last time he had such a nice sleep though that probably was because of his new life.
He was excited and had he still been his old self, he would be jumping around and shouting about what he was about to do in case it proved right.
Naruto calmly walked into the middle of his future not-too-big training grounds with a thoughtful face.
"Kyū, are you sure this will work?"
There was a grumble he didn't quite understand before he heard the all-too-familiar voice that he would come to cherish in the future.
"Just try it. Place your hand on the ground, concentrate and direct your chakra into it."
Naruto did just that as he placed his hand on the ground, closing his eyes and let his chakra flow through his body and directing it to the ground.
Beads of sweat formed on his forehead as he has been concentrating for at least 2 minutes before he snapped his eyes open and at that moment a medium sized tree emerged right in front of him much to his and his tenant shock and awe.
"So, I do really possess the famous Mokuton. But how can this be? I'm not Hashirama's descendant as far as I know. So, how can I have his Kekkei Genkai?"
"Hmm... That's probably because the Mokuton is not a normal Kekkei Genkai you're used to see. This involves the nature itself, I'm not really sure. Hashirama was always an idiot just like you in the past and had the same pure soul as you, so maybe the Mokuton has a probability even if It's very low to be unlocked on pure souls...? Well, It doesn't matter."
Naruto hummed a bit before replying "Yeah, you're right. Now, let's get to training. I'll use my Kaa-chan's advice right from the beginning as we can't waste anymore time...
Tajū Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!"
Flashback End
It's rare the times that he leaves the compound except when he has to gather enough food to last for a few months. Talking about food, he had to reduce on his Ramen meals per Kyūbi's orders as the beast explained that that was the main reason he was still short even though his body had slightly changed after the incident.
Nevertheless, he was overjoyed when he cooked different types of food and tasted almost even better than Ramen.
During the sixth month, the blond went to the Zabuza and Haku's grave and there he found the Kubikiribōchō, he decided to take it with him and use it to the best of his abilities to make Zabuza proud.
It was then that he remembered the legacy left to him by his mother.
The Kaminoikari.
Flashback
We find Naruto sitting cross-legged on the ground a little bit far away from his clones who were working on the basics of many Shinobi arts using the scrolls left by his mother.
Right now he was gazing over the bottom of the letter given to him before he left Konoha. Pushing some chakra to one of the seals there, a plume of smoke exploded from the seal before revealing a beautiful pure black Katana. Naruto could feel the intense power flowing through it and weirdly It was like the sword was calling for him.
Shaking his head to those thoughts, he placed his left hand over the hilt and instantly a white flash blinded his eyes before he felt some of his chakra being drained to the Katana.
Is it... changing?
The black Katana that seconds ago was just that, pure black, now had an engraved fox demon onto the blade. He immediately reached the obvious conclusion.
It's reacting to my chakra... The fox is a dead give away.
Indeed, Young Uzumaki.
A grave tone snapped out of his thoughts and the blond immediately narrowed his eyes at the blade.
I remember now... You're a sentient sword.
You're right on that. Hmm... Oh? It seems you're my latest disciple's offspring.
Naruto stopped for a second hearing that response, before answering "Kaa-chan... disciple?"
Without missing a bit, it replied Indeed disciple. Up until now, only the Shodaime Uzukage, Ashira Uzumaki, was the only one capable of wielding me to my full potential and the one worth of me calling him 'master'."
A grin was forming on Naruto's face as he heard the last statement. But this was not his usual grin. This was almost a sadistic bordering bloodthirsty grin that sent shivers on Kyūbi's spine and the Kaminoikari's metal.
"Let's begin..."
Flashback End
It took almost a whole two years but he's almost there. Kaminoikari had been teaching the legendary lost art of the Hiten Mitsurugi-ryū and surprisingly enough It worked perfectly with the type of body that Naruto had.
Speed and Endurance.
His Taijutsu grew leaps and bounds although It took a lot of time to master the Uzumaki's Hageshī-Uzu Style but in the end, It was worth it. This style was all about speed, flexibility and precision. And was the precision part that took some time to master as It was very similar to the Hyūga's Jūken sending bits of chakra through the fingers.
Naruto took it to the next level, adding one of his elemental affinities. But that's a story for another time.
Affinities
At first Naruto thought he would only possess Fūton as his element since the jutsu he used against the ANBUs was made with relatively ease but then he unlocked his Kekkei Genkai, Mokuton, giving him Suiton and Doton. So he just decided to get over with those annoying doubts and using a small piece of paper that came with one of the books called 'Elements & Affinities: Shape it to your Will' sealed in the scroll.
So It came as a surprise when one of the parts of the paper wrinkled to a mini-ball. Indicating a very strong affinity to Raiton as well.
His bloodthirsty grin didn't leave his face for the rest of the day.
It was during the second year of his training that he remembered something that made him curse himself as he had totally forgot about it.
Flashback
Kuchiyose no Jutsu!
A small plume of smoke much to Naruto's surprise as he put quite a bit of chakra to that, revealing a short, green toad with white hair styled in somewhat of a mohawk, very thick eyebrows and a small goatee.
The same toad turned his surprised gaze over Naruto and immediately his face contorted to one of sympathy? The young Uzumaki instantly read his emotions with his improved sensors and knew what was going on.
"Nice to meet you, Naruto-chan. Name's Fukasaku, I'm one of the elder toads of Mount Myōboku, the Toad's realm."
Naruto had an impassive face as although he could read many positive emotions coming from him, this was still Jiraya's summons. The elder toad seemed to have read his mind as he continued.
"You're probably wondering why you still can summon the Toads... Hm, to make it short, Jiraya is no longer our summoner thus making you the official holder of the GamaContract."
His impassive face morphed into a surprised one, who wouldn't? This old toad as just told him that they dumped their first summoner. That was a lot to take in.
"I guess you know what happened 2 years ago, then.."
The elder toad stroke his small goatee before replying "Indeed. Tsunade of the Namekujin contacted us and explained the whole story. We are quite ashamed for Konoha that we swore to protect and Jiraya-chan's actions. We've been waiting for you to contact us as if we just appeared out of nowhere you would thought that we had ill intentions, so. Uzumaki Naruto, I, Fukasaku, one of the Nidaisengama(two great sage toads) declare you the official holder for the Gama contract scroll... when you become a Sennin which will probably take some time that is. But, we believe in you."
There was a determined look on Fukasaku's face as he finished his statement. Naruto saw this and gave him a nod that said he was ready for whatever they throw at him which made the elder toad inward smile.
We meet at last... Yogen no Ko.
Flashback End
So for his last year, Naruto was apprenticed by Fukasaku 3 days a week and the rest were used for honing, mastering and creating jutsus as well as pushing his body even further with the resistance seals. He created many combinations with several toads but the major boost in his abilities was because of the Senjutsu.
It actually came very easy for him, maybe because of his Kekkei Genkai but he didn't really care. He could almost activate his Sennin Mōdo instantaneous. Almost. This natural energy gave both his Ninjutsu and Taijutsu an amazing boost. With it, he came up with several ideas for new techniques and recreate many others. He couldn't wait to try it out.
The only thing he was in need was experience even though the toads were good sparring partners but he kinda missed have someone human to talk to.
He didn't make any contact with Tazuna, Tsunami nor Inari. He loved them but he just didn't want anyone to know he was there. If word got out, there would be many groups coming for him.
Although he was very powerful, he couldn't take on multiple armies by himself... yet
Present Time
Nami no Kuni - Town
Uzumaki Naruto was walking by the town without his normal Henge, no need for that, since today he would be leaving. His summons had gathered enough information about the Elemental Nations and the 5 Great Villages. He had shown some emotions when Gaerusūpai, a spy toad, told him recent news about Sunagakure and their new Godaime Kazekage.
Sabaku no Gaara.
That was really surprising. His friend finally got acknowledge by his village and maybe It was time for a little visit.
The next one was Kirigakure, as It seemed the rebellion forces had won and consequently killed the tyrant Yondaime Mizukage, Yagura, and consecrated Mei Terumī as the new Godaime Mizukage. This happened 1 year after Naruto started his training so, right now, two years later, Kiri might be a good place to check out.
There was not really any interesting news about Kumogakure. It seemed that with Ā, the Yondaime Raikage, the village has calmed down a lot when it comes to Kekkei Genkais. He might go there just after visit his friend, Gaara.
Iwagakure has been moving a lot of his troops to his borders. There are rumours about them wanting to take revenge on Konoha now that they lost some allies because of their Jinchūriki.
After word got out about the Kyūbi's Jinchūriki being banished, Nami no Kuni and Haru no Kuni had cut all ties with the village as Tazuna and Koyuki, the respective Daimyos, were very close to that person. This was an huge blow to their economy that made the majority of their civilians tremble in rage and a few Shinobis shake their heads at the stupidity of the village and its people. There was a significant decrease of missions received which made everyone worried. The newly instated Kazekage, Gaara, and the leader of Takigakure, Shibuki, also threatened Konoha but didn't nullify or cancel any contracts between them, though there's a lot of tension.
Konohagakure.
That sole name still leaves a bad taste in his mouth. But when he heard his spy about what happened to that village, he had to let a small smile grace his lips. Though, one could see the slight concern in those icy blue eyes.
Baa-chan, Kurenai-sensei, Yugao-san, Hana-san, Teuchi-oji-san, Ayame-chan, Iruka-sensei... Kakashi.
Naruto frowned. He couldn't leave his precious people nor his mother's students behind. He had to decide which village he would go to soon enough. Right now, he needed to head to Sunagakure to check on his friend. With that in mind, he was about to vanish in one of his elemental Shunshins when a puff of smoke in front of him alerted him. He turned his gaze towards the toad with an impassive face waiting for it to speak not even caring about the people that were observing this interaction in curiosity and shock as they never heard a toad speak, though they couldn't really hear what he was saying.
"Naruto-sama! There's urgent news! Your friend Gaara, the Kazekage, was... kidnapped."
Naruto immediately narrowed dangerously his icy blue eyes and for a second the toad thought he saw small jolts of electricity dancing around but shook his head to that before relaying the information.
"He was kidnapped yesterday by two members of the Akatsuki. They are extracting his Bijū as we speak in some kind of hideout at Kawa no Kuni. You need to move now otherwise you will not make in time."
The toad didn't have to say twice as soon as he finished his statement the only indicator that Naruto had already vanished was the small breeze of wind, towards the Land of Rivers.
Time skip
Kawa no Kuni - Hideout
9 figures stood on top of some strange fingers, weirdly enough 7 of them had no bodies visible, the only thing you could make out were their eyes and the rest was like an hologram. All of them were in deep concentration as in the middle of them stood Gaara as a strange red energy seem to be coming out of his mouth towards the mouth of a strange statue as a blue aura surrounded the Jinchūriki.
One of the figures with yellow eyes snapped his eyes open which went noticed by a pair of 4 rings centric purple eyes and another pair of 3 tomoe'd red eyes. He finally spoke.
"We've got company."
None of them showed any visible reaction, so he continued "Three Konoha teams coming. Probably to rescue the Kazekage."
The purple eyed spoke for the first time "Who did they sent? Maybe we can extract some information on the Kyūbi Jinchūriki's whereabouts."
"You've Inuzuka Kiba, Haruno Sakura led by Hatake Kakashi and Chiyo of Sunagakure. Rock Lee, Hyūga Neji and Tenten led by Maito Gai. And finally, Yuhi Kurenai and Uzuki Yugao. They still have quite some distance between each other, so the last 2 teams are probably back-up."
The Rinnegan wielder hummed a bit in thought before relaying his orders "That's quite a group they sent. Hmm... Kisame and Itachi lend some chakra to Zetsu and stop Hatake and Gai's team. Kakuzu do the same and stall some time for us. If you are able to, kill them."
His response were several nods before they followed their leader's plan.
Few miles from the Hideout
Kakashi, Sakura, Kiba and Chiyo been running non-stop as Akamaru had got Gaara's scent so they couldn't waste anymore time before it was too late. But before they could move forward to their destiny a familiar face made Kakashi immediately tense, instantly ordering for his team to come to an halt.
"Hello Kakashi-san, It's been a while..."
"Itachi..."
Few miles behind
Team 9 of Konoha were running at high-speeds towards their destination. Pakkun, Kakashi's ninken, had told them where they were heading some hours ago and the team all agreed to up their speeds to get to them the fastest as possible. But before they could go any further, Hyūga Neji suddenly stopped making his team do the same as his Byakugan detected an individual with a monstrous amount of chakra.
"Oh, we meet again Green Beast. There's no one to interrupt us now, ne."
"You! ... Eto, who are you?"
Few miles to the side
Kurenai and Yugao been moving at a decent pace. They were supposed to meet with Team Gai first but It seems they picked up the speed much to their concern as that only meant they were late. Any further thoughts were stopped as a figure shimmered in front of them. Their senses went high-alert as they saw the black rob with red clouds.
"Hmm... Genjutsu Mistress, Yuhi Kurenai, A-Ranked worth of 3,000,000 ryos. and Kenjutsu Mistress, Uzuki Yugao, High A-Rank worth of 5,500,000 ryosa. That's quite a bounty."
"Kakuzu, former Jounin of Takigakure."
Time Skip
Kawa no Kuni
A figure was moving at high-speed towards a certain location, his senses had picked up several familiar chakra signatures, some had made his blood boil but there were others that actually got him concern as they were getting weaker by minute. He pumped more chakra to his legs vanishing in a yellow blur.
Few minutes later he arrived and using his almost perfect chakra control to surpress his chakra what he saw shook him in rage as he saw a figure with familiar clothes about to finish a group that were kneeling on the ground exhausted. Without hesitation, he jumped out of the bushes as a swirling blue ball materialized on top of his palm as it kept growing by the second.
Kurenai and Yugao were having a bad time. When they engaged the Akatsuki member, they were quickly able to get the advantage because of their impeccable teamwork, but everything went down after they supposedly killed him with one of their combinations. They let their guard down after the Kenjutsu Mistress plunged her sword through his heart and it was all it took for the weird man turn the tide of the battle. With an earth-enchanced punch, he broke Yugao's ribs and after that 3 weird creatures came out of his back that made quick work with Kurenai.
They were still able to kill 2 of these creatures but now their chakra was running low and they were exhausted not counting the several bruises all over their body. They shared a small smile to each other as they knew what was going to happen.
"You fought well even though It's not my original body, It still has 70% of my chakra. You would probably beat me if you knew about my secret beforehand."
Both kunoichis were shocked as they were about to get killed by a man that wasn't even the real one. They didn't know what to make of it but nevertheless, It was a blow to their pride as a Kunoichi. The only black creature still standing on the side of the man leaped towards both of them as both of his thread arms started to get covered by lightning. Yugao pushed her body to the limit, years of working with ANBU paying off and quickly jumped in front of one of her best friends, giving her a tearful smile over her shoulder. Goodbye Nai-chan.
Kurenai watched in horror as her friend stood to take the blow for her as her eyes moistured as realization hit her what she was about to do.
"This is the end... Raiton: Ken Kattā!"
Time seemed to slowing down as both fists of the black creature that were covered with lighting was about to struck Yugao before a shadow loomed over them.
"Ōdama Rasengan!"
*BOOOOOM*
Kakuzu narrowed his eyes at the sudden voice and explosion, so focused he was at this new development that he never saw a black blur that passed through him. The last thing he heard was a Click sound similar to of a hilt's sheltering.
Hiten Mitsurugi-ryū: Shi no Ko
A clean cut.
Kakuzu's body split in half.
No blood was visible on the newcomer's blade.
Yugao and Kurenai watched in shock and awe as they watched this man saving them at the last second, both of them sighed in relief but their eyes widened at the familiar but deeper voice.
"Are you alright Kurenai-chan, Yugao-chan?"
Both Kunoichis turned their gazes at the familiar voice and their eyes seemed to widen even more if possible at the handsome man as they took his features, shoulder-length blond hair, icy blue eyes and 3 whisker-marks that seemed to be disappearing. Wait... w-whiskers?
"N-Naruto?"
Said man watched in amusement as both Kunoichis recognized him and raised his perfectly shaped eyebrow at the pink tint that formed on her cheeks. He put those thoughts for later as his face contorted to an impassive face before continuing.
"Although I would love to have a nice conversation with you, we need to move. We're already late."
Without waiting for their response, two replicas of him materialized out of thin air at her sides and placed them on their backs. Ignoring their embarrassed protests, they went on their way towards their real mission.
Time Skip
Kawa no Kuni - Akatsuki Hideout
The battle was already going on if the several craters and destroyed puppets were any indicator. The three of them immediately knew they were late and sharing a nod, Kurenai and Yugao who had been recovering and thanks to the clones using some Iryo-ninjutsu, they recovered most of her wounds and had some time to rest, went to help the group fighting inside the cave and Naruto ran towards the others and had to raise an eyebrow at the interesting jutsu someone was using far away as the space where a white creature was, seem to be distorting. As he was running, Naruto closed his eyes in concentration and forming an hand-seal, he extended his senses.
Hitsuji... Kagura Shingan!
Not even two seconds later, his eyes snapped open and narrowed at the sky.
Kakashi's chakra is deteriorating really fast so that means he's the responsible for that weird jutsu. Kiba is being useless as always. Gotta hurry up.
With that in mind, Naruto formed another hand-seal and his body exploded with lighting before he vanished in a sound of thunder clap.
Kaminari no Ugoki
With Kakashi and Kiba
One was breathing heavily and the other was shaking in rage.
The former was cursing himself for not having trained this specific jutsu more often as It required massive amounts of chakra just to sustain it and now he couldn't do that as a certain brash and loud member of their group didn't shut his mouth.
"C'mon Kakashi-sensei, he's escaping!"
For the tenth time, Kakashi sighed not even bothering to answer his companion and instead gathered an huge amount of chakra on his eye, snapping it halfway open as his body was getting heavy and heavy by the minute.
I won't fail this time... Kamui!
He narrowed his eye to the flying figure above him and a second later the space where he was directing his gaze started to distort.
A blond-haired figure was having a really bad time. He had already lost one arm to the Ichibi no Jinchūriki and now he had to deal with an unknown Jinkukan ninjutsu that seemed to suck everything to god knows where. As he was thinking how to escape this situation, the area around him distorted again and he gritted his teeth as his remaining arm was sucked into the void ball. So concentrated he was on trying to endure the sudden pain and loss of his second and last arm that he missed another figure rotating himself with his partner. His eyes widened as his senses skyrocketed and he forced his body to jump as what looked like a tornado destroyed his dragon clay.
"Gatsūga!"
It all happened too fast. In a second he was on top of his beautiful clay art and in the other he was falling from it. Maneuvering his body, he landed on a random branch, watching the brown-haired boy clawing the head of what once was his dragon that contained the dead Jinchūriki. He narrowed his eyes behind the boy where the main problem really was.
That kid isn't that good, the real problem is Kakashi. I would never expect someone with such ocular prowess with the Sharingan... just like Itachi.
He ignored the rant and empty threats of the boy as a smile formed on his lips.
"I can play with you another day, kid. My job is done. Ja ne!"
"Oh no, you won't... Tsūga!"
It was actually quite fast and he didn't have enough time to escape but after seeing that move so many times It was easy to follow the movement.
And he was not a member of Akatsuki for nothing.
Enhancing his leg with Doton Chakra, he timed the exact moment to thrust a powerful kick onto the jutsu's weakness.
Right in the middle of the rotation.
Kiba ignored the shouts of Kakashi and spin violently his body towards his opponent not even caring about the leg movement of the Akatsuki member, he would destroy him.
But before they could clash with each other, Kakashi widened his red eye as he picked up a ridiculous fast blur intercepting the foot and the spinning boy with his bare chakra-enhanced hands.
The newcomer ignored the surprised and shocked looks of them before pushing Raiton chakra through his left hand that had stopped the foot and watched in amused at the cries of pain of the blond-haired before grabbing the other boy and jumped to where a familiar silver-haired was as his mind was racing miles per second.
My sensory abilities picked up the build up of Doton chakra that's why It was so effective. Raiton must be his weakness overall. He just picked up the wrong guy, oh well..
Naruto trashed the boy he was holding on the branch and he immediately had to sidestep a punch from the same person and had to wince at the high-pitched voice.
"YOU IDIOT! WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU AR- Dead-last? Oh joy, now I can kill you demon!"
Kiba was about to leap towards Naruto again when a strong grip caught his shoulders, he turned around to shout again when his eyes met with a stern and dangerous gaze of a red-eye.
"You will stop right now as we still have something to deal with."
The Inuzuka wanted to protest but the narrowed eyes of his Sensei made him think otherwise. The Chunnin huffed in annoyance before turning his gaze towards the Akatsuki member who locked eyes with the person that had injured him.
Blond hair, blue eyes, is that whisker marks...? T-that's...
"Kyūbi Jinchūriki... You've been hiding for quite sometime now. I would love to show you my art right now, but It seems the leader is calling me, hm."
"You will die today, Deidara."
Naruto narrowed his icy blue eyes as the now named Deidara started to chew the remaining of his clay and his eyes widened at the build up on chakra and immediately knew what he was trying to do.
Deidara's body started to expand as inwardly he was smirking as with this jutsu he might even be able to defeat the Kyūbi Jinchūriki and get revenge for what he done just moments ago.
But before he couldn't think further an electric blade-shape or spear was thrusted into his chest and he could only blink as his jutsu stopped in that instant.
Chidori Eisō
Kakashi, Kiba and Deidara widened their eyes in shock, awe and fear at the high-level of elemental shape transformation. Specially the former as he had a shocked but proud look on his face T-that's a variation of my... Ch-Chidori.
It didn't stop there as his free hand went through a chain of hand-seals before gritting his teeth at the level of difficulty of his next action.
Above the Akatsuki member, moisture in the air was being gathered and two seconds later It started to take shape of several water needles. With a grunt, they were lunged and thrusted into several parts of Deidara's body who could only scream in pain as some of the water needles made contact with the lighting spear sending even higher jolts through his body.
Sensatsu Suishō
Naruto cancelled his jutsu as he observed the damage of both of his techniques. This was quite strong combination he came up in the last second, he absently nodded at the result and if the twitching body of Deidara was any indicator, It was quite effective.
He was about to move to finish off the poor Akatsuki member when his sensors picked up another chakra signature and not a second later the area around the laid down Deidara distorted and a swirling vortex made itself known before an unknown figure came out of it. Naruto narrowed his eyes at the orange mask with a lone hole and his eyes widened as a 3 tomoe'd Sharingan seemed to be glaring at him. But before he could think further he heard a loud growl inside of him.
IT'S HIM! HE'S THE FLESHBAG THAT CONTROLED ME WHEN YOU WERE BORN!
Naruto had to force down the Kyūbi's chakra that was trying to come out of him, the Uzumaki narrowed dangerously his eyes as the atmosphere seemed to drop several degrees and electricity started to dance around his eyes. The newcomer finally spoke in a grave tone.
"Kyūbi Jinchūriki... Been quite a pain in the ass to find you. You became quite strong in 3 years though, you should just surrender yourse-"
A lightning-fast kunai cut his statement but just as It was about to plunge on his head, the same kunai just passed through him. Naruto widened a bit his eyes at that as his mind started to work overdrive.
What the hell was that? An after-image? No... I noticed the slight build up of chakra on his eyes, so It's related to that teleportation he just used when he appeared out of nowhere. And that Jikūkan Ninjutsu looked awfully like the one Kakashi-sensei used. That means It's a Sharingan based jutsu...
"Who are you?"
The masked man gazed in amusement at the impassive face of the Jinchūriki. He hummed a bit before replying.
"I go by many names. Some call me Tobi... Years ago though I was called the Uchiha no Bōrei, the Ghost of the Uchiha...
Naruto and Kakashi widened his eyes in shock as realization hit them.
... Yes, I'm the co-founder of Konohagakure no Sato, Uchiha Madara."
Inside of Naruto a raging fox was swirling dangerously his tails but he momentarily stopped at that proclamation.
He's lying! Indeed what he says about being a Uchiha is true and that foul chakra is the same as Him, but no way he's the bastard he's proclaiming to be.
The Kyūbi's Jinchūriki was in a turmoil as he was trying to decipher this mystery. After a few seconds he decided to save that new information his tenant gave him as he didn't want to anyone know about him and the fox friendship before addressing the man called Tobi.
"What do you want?"
The proclaimed Madara noticed the lack of fear of the blond-haired, he disregarded that observation as nothing before replying.
"It's still too early to know. Be prepared as we will be coming for you, Uzumaki Naruto."
And just as he finished that statement, the area around him distorted again and with Deidara on his shoulders, a swirling vortex enveloped them before disappearing just like that.
Naruto narrowed his eyes as their signature just vanished out of his senses, not even his Kagura Shingan could detect where did he go.
That just proves that technique is indeed a Jinkūkan Ninjutsu, and a dangerous one too... It surpasses the Hiraishin, I really need to finish it if I want to easily counter that.
The Kubikiribōchō wielder not that they knew, turned his gaze towards the Konoha-nins and with a sigh, he said.
"Alright, let's go."
With two nods though one reluctant, they left the clearing with Gaara towards the other group. On their way, Kakashi focused on the man that was carrying him on the back, trying to analyse the events that just occurred.
You've grown well, Naruto.
Time Skip
Kawa no Kuni - Unknown Hill
The travel was uneventful but as soon as they made contact with the other Konoha group, Naruto was immediately aware of the many glares and few apologetic looks towards him. Though he didn't care and promptly ignored when a certain pink-haired banshee shouted at him, instead he just stayed a little behind the group where Kurenai and Yugao were. They had explained what happened during the battle with Sasori.
Firstly the battle was going badly for the Konoha plus Chiyo group but as soon as they joined them, It immediately turned the tide and they eventually were able to defeat and kill the Kugutsu Master. Though, It was a pain in the ass as Sakura kept doing mistakes after mistakes that almost killed Chiyo. The Chunnin Kunoichi was still very inexperienced in the battlefield even though she got a little stronger. She's been trying to replicate Tsunade's monstrous strength but she's still far from mastering it. The teen tried to get the Hokage to apprentice her but was unsuccessful everytime and always got the same answer 'I don't want to deal with weak fangirls who instead of taking their career seriously, are still dreaming about their knight armour boy'. Sakura was smart enough to know what she meant and would always find herself plunged into a wall after the shouts of 'non-sense', 'old hags', 'love' and 'Sasuke-kun'.
So now we find Naruto, Yugao, Kurenai and now Kakashi and Hyūga Neji watching a little away from the rest of the group plus the now arrived Suna-nins as Chiyo started executing a Kinjutsu created by herself on Gaara and the Uzumaki had to narrow his eyes as he could pickup the degradation of the elder's chakra coils as realization came upon him.
She's sacrificing herself... I see. Such type of Kinjutsu had to have its repercussions.
Judging from his friends reactions seconds later, they already came to the same conclusion. And with heavy heart, Naruto closed his eyes as if praying for the old woman.
Hope you find happiness in the afterlife, Chiyo-baa-san.
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And done.
Hope you enjoyed the little twists I made relatively to the cannon.
Tobi and Naruto finally met and It was sooner than maybe the former anticipated. Will it change his plans at all?
As I said before, I'll probably give him an Harem just to make something different from the other stories. In case you agree with me, I was planning on: Kurenai, Yugao, Yugito, Samui, Koyuki, Mei(?), Konan(?), a feisty Temari(?). Give me your opinion regarding this.
Next chapter: Zombies, Cats, Snakes... and Mokuton unleashed. (Wink wink)
Thank you all and Stay tuned!