AN: I'm BACK with a brand new chapter to Sentence Served! I have had the utmost pleasure of reading your reviews and would like to note a few things.
This is NOT going to be a Naru/Hina fic. Now I have absolutely nothing against this pairing, I just don't want it this time around. I want to be more original. Wait for my next fic for this particular pairing…
This will NOT be a Yaoi or guy/guy pairing so don't bother asking for Sasuke/Naru, It ain't going to happen.
last, I would like to say that the following chapters will hopefully be longer but I'm not guaranteeing anything.
Summary: After an attack from the villagers, seven year old Naruto has been thrown into a coma. Locked into his own mindscape, young Naruto discovers the truths overlooked concerning Kyuubi and his seal. With this new wildcard, Naruto begins to train rigorously to exact revenge on a certain snake. (Warning for future use of language)
"BLAH" Kyuubi speaking"BLAH" Arashi speaking
"BLAH" Everyone else speaking
Naruto is awake, fully recovered from his attack, and is secretly training under the guidance of Kyuubi and Arashi. The Hokage is getting suspicious and what's this? Arashi wants Naruto to steal something? Also, School. How fun.
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LAST TIME"It seems my calculations were wrong. He's waking up now." Kyuubi said as Arashi ran to his panicking son.
"Don't worry Naruto, You're just waking up." He grasped the trembling boy by the shoulders, "Calm down. We'll be here in your mind. We aren't going anywhere. Just don't tell anyone about us understand?"
Naruto nodded numbly as his shoulders began to fade as well. Arashi gave him one last hug and in a flash of light Naruto disappeared into the world of the living.
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It's been about a month since our Naruto-kun woke up from his attack and the three had fallen into a sort of routine. Chakra control in the early morning, the Academy later, then an early dinner at Ichiraku followed by training at the abandoned training ground under his father till evening. While he slept, Naruto would join his father and Kyuubi for lessons in history about the shinobi world and Konoha, Makai (demon realm :hell) and family history from both Kyuubi and Arashi's clans with the occasional shogi game in-between. Currently our Naruto-kun was in his mindscape before both his sensei's gaping like a fish.
"You want me to do WHAT?" He screeched then promptly fell back on his rear end. "You want me to sneak into the Hokage Manor and STEAL A SCROLL? You have got to be JOKING!"
Arashi sighed, "Listen Naruto, We NEED that scroll. It has the key to our success in it."
"I don't see the problem. If the old geezer shows up just hit him with that Orioke (sp?) no jutsu of yours and he'll fall like a rock." Kyuubi muttered and Arashi shuddered at the thought. Even great warriors such as themselves had fallen against that deadly jutsu. And quite frankly they didn't want to experience it again.
"Fine, but if I get caught, what then?" Naruto picked himself off the ground. "It's bad enough that the old man is getting suspicious with me sneaking off all the time for training, but what if he catches me? He won't believe me if I tell him YOU told me to steal it dad…Even if it's supposed to be mine anyway since you're supposed to be dead and all."
"Well, for the suspicion thing I simply suggest you stop blatantly sneaking off." Kyuubi shrugged as he leant against a tree, currently on the receiving end of a glare.
"We'll deal with it in the morning…right now we need to practice some more." Arashi stated and Naruto cheered. "How are you coming with Rasengan, Naruto?"
"I still can't get it past level two! It's pissing me off!" Naruto crossed his arms and pouted.
"It's okay Naruto. I created that jutsu and it took me three YEARS while it took you two DAYS just to get to the second level." Arashi patted Naruto on the head. "Just keep practicing. You'll be waking up soon."
"Whatever," Naruto grumbled as he resumed his practice.
After a while later, Naruto-kun found himself in the familiar field, the sun just rising over the horizon. You see, Naruto absolutely HATED his so called apartment, preferring to spend nights at his secret camp in the abandoned training grounds. The only time he ever actually stayed at his apartment was when it was raining and too cold.
Naruto began his morning exercises of chakra control, doing pushups and other things on the water of a small pond nearby. With a months worth head start in Nin-Jutsu and chakra control training in his Mindscape and another month in the living world, Naruto was far ahead of most of his academy classmates who were just learning the basics of chakra and jutsu. Though his academic scores were horrid, the nightly sessions were slowly helping poor Naruto catch up, though not by much.
'Arg. Time for SCHOOL.' Naruto thought with a shudder as he looked at the sky to judge the time, a trick he learned from his 'Uncle Kyuubi'. 'I HATE school.'
Although Naruto loved to learn, he just didn't find anything that the academy taught to be interesting. Nara Shikamaru, one of his very few friends, shared his opinion.
He spotted the lazy boy as he entered the classroom and took his customary seat next to him in the back row as usual, his other friend Chouji next to Shikamaru.
"What's going on?"
"Something stupid I assure you." Shikamaru yawned, "School is so troublesome."
"I second that statement," Naruto muttered as he prepared himself for another useless day of nothing but memorizing sayings and dates of unimportant events.
As Naruto dozed off another day of school, anxiously waiting for the end to come so he could return to training and stuff his father tried and failed to keep him into the lesson.
"You know, you should probably pay attention Naruto…"
'What's the point if I'm never going to use this stuff? I mean seriously, what enemy is going to question me on whether or not some Daimyo did this or that? This is a NINJA academy for god's sake! They should teach us stuff that has to do with saving our butts instead of cramming stupid facts down our throats…'
"He has a logical point there you know…"Had one been able to see it, they would have seen Arashi turn and glare at the demon lord next to him.
"You aren't helping the matter so shut up."
"I was just saying…""SHUT IT!"
'If you two are so apt for bickering like a married couple could you think of how I'm going to get that stupid scroll?' There was a momentary silence before Naruto received his answer from his father.
"Okay then…here's the plan."
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Naruto hid in the shadows, invisible to the naked eye. He had successfully made it into the Hokage manor without any trouble and was waiting for the perfect chance to strike. With his father's knowledge of the Hokage manor layout and Kyuubi's extreme senses, he quickly made his way to an old room where all the former Hokage's (his father's) scrolls were kept.
'Okay people, were in.'
Naruto took extra precaution to be super silent and very fast as he searched through the scrolls. He filed through the shelves and boxes laying about.
'Where is the damn thing already?' he thought frustrated.
"Look in the desk. Bottom drawer, very back. This was my old desk and I don't think it was ever found."
Naruto quietly made his way over and ruffled through the drawer of the old desk and clutched a small scroll. He felt a wax seal with an spiral pressed into it and grinned to himself. He pocketed the scroll and looked around.
'Now the tricky part…getting the hell out of here.'
He quickly and quietly made his way out of the room and out the building with few scares, unaware of a pair of eyes following his exit into the alley next to the Hokage manor. As Naruto hit the dark streets he broke out into a dead run to his secret camp as the Sandaime watched his form fade into the darkness from the window, one thought filtering through his mind.
'What is that boy up to now?'
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"OH YES! I DID IT!" Naruto exclaimed as he flopped down on the sleeping bag. His heart was beating a million miles an hour and he was breathing hard but damn did he feel good. He peered at the small scroll in his hands, holding it up to the sky, examining it in the moonlight. "So what's so special about this scroll anyway?"
"It holds your inheritance. Open it...the contents will help us to success" He heard the voice of his father filter through his head.
Naruto sat up on the sleeping bag, crossing his legs. He broke the spiral wax seal and unrolled the scroll, immediately noticing it was a summoning scroll. With a puff of smoke, a large duffle bag, a smaller knapsack, and a medium sized box dropped in front of him.
"What's this stuff?" Naruto opened the duffle bag first, his jaw dropping at the sight of hundreds of scrolls. He clutched one and examined it closer in the light of the small fire.
"These are all the jutsu I knew and collected, including all my original ones that you will learn. The small bag has the keys to our estate, the clan bankbook and account information which I'm sure has collected a lot of interest over the years."
Naruto dumped the bag's contents onto the sleeping bag and noticed a small key and two rings on a silver chain.
"What's this dad?" He fingered the rings and noticed that they were wedding rings.
"Those were my and your mother's wedding rings…the key was to a door in the shrine on our clan's grounds that lead out of the village wall. The door lead to a secluded place in the forest just outside the wall that I used to train in all the time as a gennin."
Naruto nodded and slipped the chain around his neck and under his black shirt. He didn't want anyone to know about it but he didn't want to go anywhere without it.
He turned his attention to the box and opened it. Inside were two coats, one red with white flames and one white with red flames. They were his father's Yondaime coats that he was famous for wearing. He rummage around a bit more and found two old Hitai-ate and a set of strange Kunai and Shuriken. He figured the Hitai-ate were his parents', but as to the shuriken and kunai he had no idea.
"Ah…those are my shuriken that I made. They are one of a kind so don't loose them. I'll teach you how to use them soon."
"Okay…hey…where is Kyuubi? Sleeping again?" If he hadn't know better, Naruto would have figured that Kyuubi was lazier than Shikamaru. The fox was asleep sixty percent of the day.
Naruto sealed the items except for the small bag back into the scroll and placed the scroll into the knapsack. He tucked the knapsack into a hiding spot he found in one of the trees and climbed into his sleeping bag. Good thing tomorrow was Saturday cause he was going to be utterly wasted the next morning.
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After his morning chakra exercises, Naruto set to work going through all the scrolls and It had taken him the better part of that day to simply separate them by type let alone difficulty. A few of the scrolls had other scrolls sealed into them and Naruto found the scrolls listing the Rasengan which he was currently learning and Shunshin No Jutsu though one scroll in particular struck the boy's interest.
"What's this?" He opened the scroll and read the words, Fijikaru Chuukaibutsu No Jutsu (Physical Medium Technique) "Physical Medium Technique?" He opened the scroll all the way and noticed that the technique was unfinished though very close.
"What did you say?" His father's surprised voice broke Naruto's thoughts.
"It says Physical Medium Technique. It seems that the jutsu is supposed to tie a spirit to a physical medium, like an animal or something…but it's unfinished."
"I believe that was your mother's technique she was working on before she died."
"Hey dad…I just realized something. If I can finish this jutsu…I can bind you and Kyuubi to a Kage Bunshin and you can come out of my head!"
"HELL YES!"
"So glad you could join us finally." Arashi commented sarcastically to the demon lord that suddenly decided to show his face...er voice.
"Listen, if we were to have a permanent physical body, we would be able to personally train the kit in the real world, not just here."
"I'm going to look over this guys. With all the seals and stuff I've learned from you two I think I can do this."
Naruto spent the rest of the day studying the scroll, becoming familiar with the concepts and forms. It was difficult but with his father's and Kyuubi's help he slowly began to understand the implied workings of the jutsu. The only part missing was what to bind the soul to so they figured that a Kage Bunshin would be the best bet they had.
"It's obvious that the jutsu requires a drawn seal on the 'medium' or body. I'm not that great at drawing seals yet, I just know how they work, so I'll have to practice a bit before I try this but it might work now don't you think?"
"I don't see why not. Though you'll have to do us one at a time."
"Your dad's right kit. I suggest that you expel the old man first. I can give you a chakra boost to help since we are bound together by the seal…once Arashi is out then he can help you to expel me."
"We'll do this tomorrow. Naruto, I want you to find the clan residence and the door in the shrine. We can do this at my training place. No one would find us there even if they felt Kyuubi's chakra for some reason."
"Hai." Naruto took out a blank scroll and began scrawling on it using his blood. He removed everything from the campsite and sealed it into the scroll, minus the knapsack, like he was shown. He tossed the scroll with his belongings into the sack and shouldered it. "Let's go."
The clan residence was on the other side of Konoha near the other clan houses like the Uchiha and Hyuuga. The Kazama were one of the founding Konoha families and it's estate was by far the largest in Konoha. The nearly one hundred acre lot was surrounded by a massive wall, the main gate locked for seven, going on eight years.
Naruto looked up to the massive gate, illuminated by the setting sun behind him. It was fairly creepy being abandoned and all, the ivy vines covering the wall. He took a breath and pushed against the door, feeling the seal lock give way and the door move slightly. He pushed it to where he could just slip through and immediately shut it again.
Naruto turned and looked at the sight before him. The grounds resembled a dense forest. Through the thick branches Naruto could barely see the form of a building in the distance, the main house as his father described. From what his father had told him, behind the main house was a field, perfect for training or sparring and beyond that, the guest houses. He followed the path that led to the left, heading towards the small ceremonial shrine.
"This is it!" As described, the shrine butted up against the village outer wall. Naruto loved hearing about his clan's history and knew that the Kazama's held the protection of their family and friends above anything else and had many secret hideouts in the forest surrounding Konoha and throughout the Fire Country. The door in the shrine was originally an escape route for the family during the unstable times of war in the beginning of Konoha's history.
Naruto entered the shrine and looked around. There was a large black stone in the center of the room, hundreds of names carved into it (like the hero's monument).
"That's our family memorial. All of those who died in battle or because of war that were in our family or were close to our clan had their names carved into this stone. Look what it says at the base."
Naruto peered closer to the stone base. He saw a phrase, carved into the granite base. "It says, 'by the blood of those before us, our family will be safe.' What does it mean?"
"This passage, was the first built by our clan when Konoha was first formed. Push the stone backwards." Arashi instructed his son.
Naruto did as asked and threw his weight against the stone. Surprisingly, the stone slid back with ease. Underneath the stone's base was a trap door, a keyhole near the latch. Naruto removed the chain from his neck and inserted the small key, turning it twice.
"I understand what the stone means now. The memorial of those who died protecting our clan protects the family still by keeping the escape route hidden." Naruto muttered to himself as he opened the trapdoor, tossing his bag down the shaft.
"Interesting, your family is Arashi. Your clan valued the lives of others before anything else."
"Yes…as a matter of a fact that's why my clan came to Konoha. You see, originally, our clan came from a region that is now a part of the Earth Country. There had been a war and our family was caught in the middle of it."
"So what happened?" Naruto said as he hopped down from the ladder and shouldered his bag once more. He performed a simple Katon jutsu to light a torch that was on the wall and stared in awe at the massive tunnel, the walls covered with runes and murals. "I've got to study these one of these days."
"I felt the same way my first time in this tunnel." Arashi laughed, "Now, as I was saying, our family had been caught in the middle of the war. The elders had deemed it more important to keep our family together and alive than to die defending something that could be rebuilt. Our clan packed up and headed east to the Fire Country. About a hundred years later, Konoha was formed under the first Hokage."
"Seems like the history of Makai…"
"How so Kyuubi-oji-san?" questioned Naruto as he navigated through the tunnel, lighting the torches as he went.
"Well, kit, Makai has been racked with clan and civil wars since…well…forever. Clans are always being moved around, whether by force or choice. Much like your own clan."
"Ah…here's the exit!" Naruto cried as he saw light. He ran towards it and heard the roaring of water. The exit to the tunnel was a cave, hidden by a waterfall. "Wow…this place is cool."
Naruto followed a path out of the cave and observed his surroundings. It was a small field, the water from the waterfall collecting in a pool before becoming a fairly large stream cutting through the hundreds of trees, all fairly tight together. They were in the denser part of the forest outside Konoha where few if any people wandered.
"Camp here for the night and tomorrow we'll get started on that jutsu."
END CHAPTER
Jutsu list…and other things
These are Jutsu mentioned. I don't own some but others I do. mine
Orioke no Jutsu – Sexy no Jutsu (Ninja Centerfold)
Rasengan – (Lit. Spiral Bullet)
Fijikaru Chuukaibutsu No Jutsu - (Lit. Physical Medium Technique)
Terms People Tend to SCREW UP
Oji-san – Uncle
Ojii-san – Grandfather
AN: Well I hope you enjoyed another chapter of Sentence Served. I really don't have much to say except look out for the next chapter. I hope to have the first chapter of my newest story Family Ties out soon for you to enjoy so keep an eye out. Also, school had started again so I'll be working hard to keep the chapters a decent length but updates might be longer due to less writing time.
PREVIEW OF NEXT CHAPTER
"Hey Dad…do you think it would be possible to bring mom back using this same jutsu?" Naruto asked as he laid on the floor, his legs spread outward. "I think it would be possible, don't you?"
Arashi made no comment as he rested on the grassy ground next to his son, letting the effects of the jutsu wear off. He missed his wife terribly and he knew Naruto would do nothing short of selling his soul to have his whole family, but was it truly possible to resurrect a soul not tied to the living world?
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