AN: I'M BACK! Finally… It took me forever just to write this short chapter and I'm still not satisfied with it. I'll most likely edit it and I'm tempted to just rewrite the entire story. Anyway…Last chapter Naruto steals his inheritance and finds his family's estate. Now, he begins the separation. The question is…will it work?
Sentence Served Last Time"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."
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It was early, barely five in the morning when Naruto woke up. It took him a few minutes to realize what day it was and he remembered that they would be attempting his mother's jutsu today.
'My mother…' Naruto thought as he lay there in his sleeping bag. Arashi had told him a lot about his mother in the dream world last night.
Her name was Uzumaki Natsuko, an orphan much like Naruto. She had no clan and was found wandering when she was barely four with a necklace around her neck, the kanji for uzumaki carved into the pendant. An ANBU had brought her to Konoha where she lived with that ANBU and his wife, and eventually became a gennin.
Arashi had said that she was on his team under the Sannin Jiraya. He said that she was where he had gotten his short temper. She had one hell of one and his head was subjected to it on many a mission, before and after he was married.
Naruto smiled to himself and rolled over in his sleeping bag as the sun showed it's first rays over the horizon. He wondered briefly how strong his mother actually was. She must have been pretty strong to totally pound his father and keep him in line. He knew his dad was strong and had seen a bit of it in the Mindscape.
He frowned when his thoughts drifted to today's goals. He was scared. He didn't know if he could pull the jutsu off or not. His father said that he would posses a bunshin to do the seals but it was totally up to Naruto to actually complete the jutsu.
Naruto had no idea what would happen if he screwed up. He sighed and forced himself to get up and get ready for the day.
'OI, WAKE UP!' He thought loudly. Naruto grinned to himself when he heard his uncle Kyuubi curse the world and its philosophy of 'waking up'. His father just laughed saying he was already awake.
"We might as well get started as soon as possible." Naruto placed his hands into a familiar seal and called out the jutsu, "Kage Bunshin no Jutsu"
In a poof of smoke, three clones stood. Naruto walked up to one and placed his hand on its forehead.
"Go dad." The clone's eyes began to glow a solid neon blue indicating his father had taken over for a while.
"Thanks." His father possessed clone scrounged through the bag of supplies that they had set aside last night and produced a brush and an inkwell. He immediately set to work and Naruto started to practice his seals.
"Oi, gaki. How long is this going to take?" Naruto sighed as Kyuubi interrupted his practice.
"Dad says it'll take him at least two hours to do the seals on the clones. After that I have to do a seal chain of over two hundred…twice. It'll be a while so shush."
"You're scared aren't you?" Kyuubi said.
"Of course I'm scared you idiot!" Naruto shrieked. "What happens if I screw up? What'll happen if it backfires and doesn't work? I don't want to loose you two because I screwed up as usual!"
"Kit, calm down. You'll do fine." Kyuubi assured the panicking boy. "Just don't hyperventilate."
For the next two hours, Naruto practiced his hand seals under Kyuubi's supervision while his father toiled away on the Bunshin seals.
"There…finished" Arashi muttered as he finished the last brush stroke on the Bunshin's arm. Both clones were lying on their backs in boxers looking at each other strangely. They were covered head to toe in five sets of intricate seals each. One for creating a new chakra system, another for body alteration, another for locking the soul in the new body, another for locking the separate mass of the soul's original chakra in the body, and the last for jumpstarting the chakra creation process for the new chakra coils.
Arashi dispelled his own bunshin, finding himself back in his son with Kyuubi.
"Every thing is ready Naruto." He said and Naruto grimaced. He really didn't want to do this. "Don't worry Naruto. Kyuubi will be here to walk you through the first expulsion Okay?"
Naruto took a nervous breath and nodded to himself. He walked over and sat himself in front of one of the Bunshins. At a relatively slow pace, he began forming the necessary two hundred seals for the first expulsion.
Naruto could feel the chakra gathering in his arms and grunted slightly, concentrating on the seal pattern and his father's spirit, his eyes screwed shut. He was halfway through when he felt a sensation like someone had thrown a bucket of ice water at him from behind. He couldn't feel his father's presence anymore and shivered as he continued with the seals. The chakra strain on his seven year old body was growing higher and higher in his arms as he unrelentingly pushed on to the end. The chakra became visible around his hands and it became increasingly difficult to perform seals. He cringed in pain as he started the last string of seals. His arms were so cold(1) it felt like they were being stabbed with thousands of needles every time he moved.
As he performed the last seal, the blue chakra flame around his arms turned brilliant white and his eyes snapped open, glowing the same white. Naruto placed his engulfed hands on the first clone's chest and called out the jutsu.
"(2)KINJUTSU Fijikaru Chuukaibutsu no Jutsu!" Naruto pushed everything into the clone all at once, trying his hardest to hold back the tears of pain as his arms felt like they were going to explode. In a surge of chakra he was thrown back a few feet as the drawn seals on the clone began to glow brightly and engulf the clone in a bright white halo. After a few seconds, a second surge blew past, signifying the chakra jumpstart activated.
Naruto shook his head to clear it and looked in awe as the clone shifted into the familiar shape of his father. In another flash of light and chakra, his father's form was revealed, wearing the same clothes as in Naruto's Mindscape.
"Holy shit it worked." Naruto breathed heavily, Kyuubi's chakra kicked into overdrive, already healing the damage to his arms and the pain receding to a dull ache. He crawled over to his father. "Hey…you alive?" He poked his father's form being rewarded with a hiss.
"Don't do that," his father croaked out.
"Oi…did it work kid?"
'Yeah…you're next.' Naruto told Kyuubi quietly. "Can you move dad?"
"Yeah…I feel all tingly all over though. Like when your foot falls asleep except all over." Arashi tried to sit up and fell back. "Okay…maybe not." It felt as though he was suffering chakra depletion when in fact, his new body was slowly catching up with his original chakra reserves.
With Naruto's help, he slowly sat up and kind of scooted towards a tree to lean against. Naruto sat next to Arashi, allowing himself to rest before he attempted to expel Kyuubi.
'This is going to be fun.' He thought sarcastically. He was going to the same jutsu, only this time using demonic chakra. They had figured that he would only be able to expel about three tails worth of chakra without blowing his arms off so Kyuubi would be reduced to a three tail kitsune for now, but Kyuubi said he was okay with that. Last night he had separated himself from the other six tails of his power and with the help of Arashi, modified the seal on Naruto's stomach so that it would hold the extra chakra till it eventually absorbed into Naruto's other chakra. The space left from Kyuubi would be filled with demon chakra so Naruto would still have nine tails worth of chakra at his disposal. Kyuubi's new body would eventually catch up and form six new tails but it would take a while, anywhere from a few months to a few years.
Naruto noted the sun's position and figured it to be about eight in the morning. He sighed and knew this would be the long haul and mentally prepared himself to start the seal chain again.
He sat himself in front of the second bunshin, his father looking on this time. He began the seal chain, slightly slower than last time, tapping into the demon chakra like Kyuubi had instructed. It was a burning sensation this time, the demonic chakra putting an even greater strain on the boy. His arms felt as if they were on fire as he struggled to keep going…he was already three fourths done but he was rapidly slowing down. The chakra erupted around his hands again, a blood red. He was sweating like crazy and he couldn't feel Kyuubi in his mind anymore, his arms feeling like he stuck them into a bed of coals.
Tears of pain escaped from his closed eyes and were evaporated before they even left his cheeks as the fiery chakra heated the air around him to an extreme temperature. He entered the last strain of seals and forced himself to keep going despite the excruciating pain in his hands and arms. He hit the last seal and his eyes snapped open again, this time a solid red, the same as the flames around his hands.
He placed his hands on the last clone and repeated the words to the jutsu. "KINJUTSU Fijikaru Chuukaibutsu No Jutsu!" The chakra blast threw Naruto back almost fifteen feet this time, the sleeves of his jumpsuit were gone, burned away from the chakra but his arms were already healing from Kyuubi's left over chakra albeit slower than normally.
Arashi and Naruto watched as the glowing form shifted into a canine figure, three tails swishing. They braced themselves as the last chakra surge blew past them, revealing a three tailed fox the size of a large dog lying on its side.
Kyuubi lifted his head briefly and saw Arashi and Naruto. After seeing they were all okay, he put his head back down and the two blondes could hear snores almost immediately.
Naruto and Arashi sweatdropped at Kyuubi though he was smart for sleeping off the effects of the jutsu. Naruto figured he was just lazy.
Naruto crawled painfully back over to where his father was leaning against the tree. He laid down next to him on the cool grass, watching the clouds drift by. He was utterly exhausted and his arms were throbbing like hell but he did it. He turned his head to his father and asked a question that was plaguing him all morning.
"Hey dad? Do you think it would be possible to bring mom back with this same jutsu?" Naruto asked as he laid there, his hands and legs outspread.
Arashi made no comment as he sat there next to his son, allowing the effects of the jutsu wear off slowly. He missed his wife terribly and was positive that Naruto would do nothing short of selling his soul to have his whole family, but was it truly possible to resurrect a soul that was not tied to the living world like he and Kyuubi were?
"Dad?" Naruto inquired. "Are you okay?"
"Yeah, I'm okay. I don't know if it is possible Naruto."
Naruto sighed, "Well, I hope so." He continued to stare at the clouds and soon found himself falling asleep, the pain finally too much.
(1)The reason why he's so cold is his father's spirit has transferred into his arms to be expelled while the chakra gathered aroundhis arms and condensed so much to the point that it becomes solid flames. Kyuubi's spirit is so hot because of his connection with fire. The first chakra surge was the result of the soul and chakra pushed into the bunshin merging and changing the body to fit the soul. The second is the last seal, jumpstarting the chakra creation process, further locking the soul into the body. (I hope this explained a few things)
(2)This is a literal translation. KINJUTSU Fijikaru Chuukaibutsu No Jutsu (Forbidden Technique: Physical Medium Technique)
AN: I hope you all liked this chapter. I know you all have been waiting a long time for it and I'm sorry it's short, but I'll have the next chapter out soon…like in a few days, hopefully.