"Talking"

'Thinking'

Flashback - "Talking"/ 'Thinking'

"Summons Talking"

Chapter 18:

Naruto and his blood clone traveled down the underground path, for a few more minutes, after they left Tayuya behind.

Once they reached the end of the path, they found themselves in front of a very large, black and gold colored, double doors.

"Now what," the real Naruto wondered while looking at the door.

There was nothing special about the door at first sight, except the fact that they were very big and that there is no door handle. Parts of the door were made out of gold, but the black stuff, Naruto doesn't know what that is, though he doesn't think that it's anything special, and that it's probably just some black metal, which the Uzumaki used to make the door.

"Maybe there is another barrier on that door," the blood clone said. "So we should be careful."

"I agree," Naruto agreed with his clone, and started to closely inspect the door, trying to see if there is something written or engraved on them. After five minutes of looking, neither Naruto found anything.

"Maybe it will activate with blood and chakra, just like that first seal," blood clone suggested.

"Maybe," the real one said, before he bit his finger, and then placed the hand on the door. Right away, he sent some chakra into the door, hoping that something will happen. Nothing did.

Naruto kept sending chakra to the door, for about half-a-minute, and still nothing happened. "I guess this isn't it," Naruto commented to his blood clone, and then tried to remove his hand from the door, but when he tried, he realized that he can't do it, as it seems that his hand is almost glued to the door.

"Well, this is interesting," he said. "The door seems to be sucking my chakra and doesn't want to let go of me. I wonder if this has a purpose, or is this just another defensive mechanism, which is made to drain chakra from anyone who does this?"

"Most likely another defensive mechanism," the blood clone said.

"Hm," the real one hmed. "Let's wait and see for a few more minutes, after that, if it still keeps absorbing my chakra, I'll just blow the whole thing up."

"Are you sure you should do that," the blood clone asked? "We don't know what's in there, and we don't know how protected this whole structure is. It might cave in on us."

"Well, it's not like I'll have another choice," Naruto said. "I can't stay here until this thing drains me of all of my chakra. It will take forever."

"Actually," the blood clone suddenly said, getting the attention of the real Naruto. "This thing might actually have a limit at how much it can absorb. If it gets overloaded, it might collapse."

"Hm," Naruto hmed again. "You might be right. Well then, let's try it out." Naruto then sent even more of his chakra, much faster than the door was absorbing so far, hoping to overload the thing and collapse it.

It took several more minutes, and an amount of chakra which Naruto is sure is higher than even Kyūbi has, to finally make the whole door glow with red color. Another minute later, the glowing intensified, before both Naruto's saw the cracks start to appear all over the door and the surrounding wall.

Less than a minute later, the door burst into pieces, leaving behind a big opening for two Naruto's to enter into, what the two of them think is the vault of the Whirlpool Country.

"Well, that certainly was a lot of chakra that I had to sacrifice," Naruto said. "It was about 50% more chakra then complete Kyūbi."

"If someone else tried to open the door the same way you did… they would have died." The blood clone said.

"I agree," Naruto said. "It does make me wander, how was anyone supposed to enter into the vault in the first place?"

The blood clone looked around for a moment before he said. "There must have been something we've missed."

"I guess," Naruto said. "Let's go inside. I can't wait to see what's so important inside of the vault, to require so much protection."

The two passed through the broken entrance, and entered inside of a VERY large chamber, which was filled with shelfs upon shelfs on which there were thousands upon thousands of books and scrolls.

One part of the vault was filled with shelfs which only hold weapons, of every kind imaginable, while another part of the vault was filled with gold bars, iron and steel ingots, chakra metal ingots from which chakra conductive weapons are made.

All in all, there is a little bit of everything inside of the Whirlpool's Vault.

"Damn," the blood clone said. "I was expecting a lot after all those protections, but this… I did not expect all of this."

Naruto, unlike his blood clone, wasn't as enthusiastic, which is something the blood clone noticed very quickly. "What up?" The blood clone asked, as he saw his creator look around with narrowed eyes.

"Do you feel that," Naruto asked? The blood clone then used his Pesquisa and tried to feel for, whatever his real self was feeling.

A moment later, he felt something. "It feels like other human… a lot of them," the blood clone said. "But there is something wrong with the way they feel."

"Yes," Naruto said. "They feel alive, but at the same time… they aren't. It's almost as if they are in a coma, and yet again, not exactly the same."

"Let's check it out," blood clone said. "Whatever it is, it must be the reason for all those protections, as I doubt that the Uzumaki's would go to such lengths to protect jutsu scrolls, weapons and other valuable objects."

The two Naruto's walked toward the far end of the vault, and soon found themselves in front of a wall, with the Uzumaki Clan crest on it.

There was a small opening at the exact middle of the crest, just wide enough to put a hand through. "Do you think it's another trap," Naruto asked his blood clone?

"I'm sure it is." The blood clone said.

"Oh well," Naruto said as he pushed his right hand through the opening to see what would happen. "Only one way to find out for sure."

Naruto pushed his hand inside of the slot almost up to his elbow, when suddenly, there was a snap of some kind, and then blood started flowing from the slot and down to the wall. Naruto pulled his arm back, but what came out was a stump of what used to be his whole arm.

Naruto looked as calm as ever. It's as if he didn't just had half of his arm chopped of by a wall. He looked at his blood clone, who looked back at him. Both had raised eyebrows. "I suddenly got the feeling that no one was ever supposed to enter into that room and find whatever is inside."

Blood Clone nodded, and then watched as Naruto's arm, regrow back just as how it was, before it was chopped of.

"So, how do we get inside?" Blood Clone asked.

"I have no idea," Naruto replied. He was completely lost. He cannot comprehend the fact that his clan would go to such lengths to guard anything. He was busting his mind, trying to come up with any sort of explanation to this, and to think of anything that would be worth putting this much life threatening protection on.

After five minutes of just standing there in front of the wall, Naruto said. "Let's check out the scrolls in the vault. Maybe we will find some explanation for this."

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Naruto and his blood clone spent the next few hours going over as much stuff in the vault as they could. Yes, they could have gone through everything, but they didn't want to leave Tayuya waiting in that hallway, forever, so after about four hours, the two Naruto's exited the vault, leaving the entrance door broken, as they didn't have any way to repair it, but considering the fact that the two of them are the only ones in the world who could get to that door, there is really no need to repair them.

Before they exited, Naruto picked up one particular scroll and took it with him. It was a very big scroll, and the reason Naruto took it with him, is because he thinks that this scroll will help him get through that wall back in the vault.

Few minutes later, the two Naruto's walked in front of Tayuya, who seemed to have dozed off, while waiting for them.

"Finally," Tayuya exclaimed after Naruto woke her up! "I almost thought that you will stay there forever!"

"Well, we certainly could have stayed longer," Naruto said. "But we returned so that you won't have to wait us any longer. We will return again later."

"Fine," Tayuya said. "Will you now tell me, what did you find in the vault? And what's up with that scroll? It reminds me of a summoning scroll."

"This is a summoning scroll," Naruto said, much to Tayuya's shock. "This is a summoning contract for the Uzumaki Clan, summoning beasts."

"Wow," Tayuya said. "I've only heard stories of those things from the other Uzumaki, but even they considered them a myth, as none of them ever actually saw the beasts being summoned."

"Trust me," Naruto said. "They are real."

"Are you planning to summon them?" Tayuya asked.

"Yes," Naruto confirmed. "I have to ask them about something we found in the vault, but couldn't get to because of the protections. I have a feeling that they will know about what's inside of that secret room."

By this point, the three of them have arrived back at the stairs under the former Uzukage Tower, and were climbing back up.

"What kind of protection is it?" Tayuya asked. Naruto then went and explained everything that happened since they parted ways, and about everything the two of them found in the vault.

"You're kidding me," Tayuya exclaimed while looking toward Naruto's arm. "Your arm got chopped off. But it's right there!"

Naruto looked at Tayuya with confusion on his face. "High Speed Regeneration," he said. "Did you forget about that?"

"Oh… right," Tayuya blushed in embarrassment, as she remembered about that particular power. Then again, she never had to use it, so no one can blame her for forgetting.

"When do you plan to summon them," she asked? "And where? If you do it in the village, they will undoubtedly be seen."

"I'll go outside of the village and summon them," Naruto said. "While I do that, the two of you wait for me in the meeting room, as I want to talk about how to proceed from here on out with the construction as well as with the take-over of other countries."

Naruto's blood clone and Tayuya nodded, and a minute later, they exited from the stairs to the second underground level, and then split up, with the blood clone and Tayuya going to the meeting room, while Naruto went outside, and then left the boundaries of the village and walked toward the other side of the island, so that he can be as far away from the village as possible, once he summons the Uzumaki Clan's personal summons.

XXX

Unlike how he usually walks slowly wherever he goes, this time, Naruto used Sonido, to get to the other side of the Island.

Once he was at the beach, Naruto let the summoning contract on the ground, and then opened it. He saw the names of many Uzumaki on the contract from the first to the last, and they were all crossed out, indicating that they are all dead.

Naruto saw the last name on the contract was Uzumaki Kouen, and wondered who he was. Naruto wondered if he was the last Uzukage, or was he some other member of the Uzumaki Family, or maybe even the member of the Royal Line, which would make him Naruto's close relative.

Naruto decided to just go on and sign his name on the contract and perform the summoning jutsu. He was glad that at this point in time, he has no summoning contract, since his with the toads has become void at the moment of his death. He wondered how the toads truly felt about him, and how they would react once they find out that he is alive, and has went and signed another summoning contract.

Naruto decided to think about that some other time, so he went and but his thumb on his right hand, and then signed his true name in blood.

Once the name was signed, Naruto rolled back the summoning scroll, and put it aside, before he performed the hand-seals for the summoning jutsu

"Summoning Jutsu!" Naruto yelled out as he slammed his right palm on the sand. Immediately as he shouted the jutsu, there was a giant puff of smoke which covered Naruto and hundreds of meters of the surrounding area.

What came out of the smoke, was a roar of a beast which was undoubtedly heard, if not in the whole EN, then in majority of them. The roar was powerful enough to send soundwaves, which blew away the smoke, revealing to Naruto, what he has summoned.

Naruto looked at the gigantic, western Dragon, with four wings. The dragon was red and beige in color, has a long neck, with spikes on his head, glowing, yellow eyes, and a big horn where the nose should be. (Great Red. High Scholl DxD)

The dragon looked downward to the beach, in order to see who has summoned it, only to see Naruto standing there and looking at him with narrowed eyes.

The stare-down went for several minutes, with neither side saying anything. The silence was finally broken by the Dragon. "Who are you," the dragon asked in a deep, booming voice? "Better said, WHAT are you? And how did you manage to summon ME, of all Dragons?"

A smile appeared on Naruto's face for a moment, before he started to laugh. Soon, the small laugh, turned into a full blown laughter, with Naruto holding his stomach from how much he was laughing.

This made the dragon mad, as no one has ever laughed in its presence without him allowing them, no matter who they are and how powerful they are.

"Stop laughing and tell me, who the fuck are you!?" The dragon roared with all his might, shaking the entire island, even casing ripples on the sea.

Naruto finally managed to stop his laughing and looked at the dragon with some tears in his eyes. That's how much he was laughing.

"Sorry," Naruto said. "But seeing you and feeling your power level… I just couldn't help but laugh."

"Are you mocking me," the dragon roared again!? "I should have your head for that!"

"You misunderstood," Naruto said. "I'm laughing because I never thought that this world would have someone who is almost as powerful as I am."

Dragon gained a surprised look on his face when he heard Naruto's words. Not only because Naruto said that he is stronger than the dragon, but because he said 'this world', indicating that he might not be from this world. In a way, that might explain to the dragon as to, why he doesn't feel any power coming from Naruto. The only explanation would be that the guy is transcendental being, just like he is, though on a level above.

"Who are you?" The Dragon asked.

"Oh, I didn't introduce myself, didn't I," Naruto said, before he bowed low, and said. "My name is, Naruto Uzumaki. It's a pleasure to meet you."

The dragon looked at Naruto in shock when he heard the name. "Uzumaki?" the dragon questioned and Naruto nodded. "Well then, that might explain how you summoned a dragon, as the Uzumaki Clan had our summoning contract, but, that doesn't explain how you were able to summon ME, and not some other dragon. It also doesn't explain, how you got your hands on the summoning contract in the first place, considering that fact that it was VERY well guarded."

Naruto shrugged at the first question. "I decided to put a lot of chakra behind the summoning jutsu, hoping that I would be able to summon the boss of the Dragon Clan," Naruto said. "Judging by your power level… I was successful."

The Dragon nodded, before Naruto continued. "As for how I found the contract… well, I found it in the Whirlpool's Country's, Vault."

"W-What," the dragon stuttered? "You were able to get all the way into the vault? Even with all the protections in has."

"Yep," Naruto said. "Of course, it wasn't easy. I found that place over two years ago, and I was able to enter only today. It took me that long to learn Fuinjutsu and reach master level in order to break that first barrier and even then, it took three of us and several hours of work. The other protections, while they would have stopped everyone else, they wouldn't stop me, since I'm from the Royal Line."

"I… I see," the Dragon said. He was really surprised that there was a member of the Royal line still alive, as he thought that all but one have died in the war, and the one who was still alive, well, she wouldn't have been able to summon him or any other dragon for at least another 20 years.

"I'm the Great Red," the Dragon introduced himself. "I'm the boss summon of the Dragon Clan, and the one True Dragon God."

"As I said, it's a pleasure to meet you," Naruto said with a smile.

"You said that you specifically wanted to summon the boss of the dragon clan," the Great Red stated, and Naruto nodded. "Why?"

"I found a secret chamber in the vault," Naruto said, and instantly noticed a sweat appear on Dragon's face, which made him know that the dragon knows what's behind that wall, and whatever it is, is enough to make even someone like him, sweat. "But I was unable to enter.

"Yes, I could have simply destroyed the wall, but I didn't want to risk damaging whatever is inside. As such, I looked around the vault, hoping to find some clue as to how to enter into the chamber. I found the summoning contract, and decided to sign it and ask you, if you know anything.

"I guess that it's pointless to ask you now though, since the expression on your face has already confirmed to me that you know what's inside there."

The Great Red was quiet for a while, as he was thinking about what to do and what to say to Naruto. He knew that at this point, Naruto is the leader of the Uzumaki Clan, and one of probably only few remaining alive, which means, as his summoning, the Great Red is bound to not lie to his summoner. The same goes for the other Dragons.

The problem is, that he and his clan have promised to their last summoner, Kouen, and his wife, Mila, that they will not reveal to anyone about the contents of that room. The fact that the room was sealed away with no way to enter, and the fact that the Dragons have only been Uzumaki's summons, was supposed to have made the job easy, as no one would be able to get to the dragons in the first place, and even if they did, no one knew about the room, so there would be no point in asking about it.

Then came Naruto, who as a Fuinjutsu master and a Royal Uzumaki, was able to get to the entrance of the vault. From there, there was a barrier at the door, which no normal person would be able to pass through, as it would require to overload the seal with chakra, and the amount of chakra necessary is higher than even Kyūbi has, which means that no one should be able to enter into the vault.

Even knowing that, Kouen and Mila have left one more protection on the secret chamber, just in case. They knew that what's inside of that room, would bring back the Uzumaki Clan in 50 years' time, and as such, they didn't want anyone to ever find that room, until the seal is released.

But Naruto was able to overload the seal on the vault door, and entered inside. He even found the secret chamber, and is now interested in knowing what's inside.

The Great Red looked at Naruto, and noticed that he has both arms, which made him wondering if Naruto even pushed his arm into the slot, or if he just looked over the door for any seal, and after he didn't find anything, he decided to search for clues on other places, instead of risking with the slot.

"Why are you so interested in that chamber?" The Great Red asked.

Naruto thought about it for a minute, before he shrugged. "I don't know," he said. "I guess I just want to know what's inside. You can't blame me for being interested, especially since I was able to sense INSIDE of the room, to a small degree."

The Great Red's eyes widened when Naruto said he was able to sense into the room, as that should be impossible. It also made him wonder if Naruto suspects about what's inside of the room, and wants him to confirm it.

"And what do you think its inside?" The Great Red asked.

Naruto smirked. "You're just fishing," Naruto said. "You want me to tell you what I know, so that then, you would only tell me what YOU want me to know."

"Uzumaki Naruto," The dragon spoke. "You need to understand that, what's inside of that room, is the future of the Uzumaki clan. It's what will allow them to return, one day."

"Uzumaki Clan is already returning," Naruto said, making the curious. "I've already started the rebuilding of the village two years ago, and have found some Uzumaki who were descendants of those who survived the war. So, if whatever is inside of that room can help in bringing back more Uzumaki… then you need to tell me, as there is no reason to wait."

The Great Red went quiet after that, and was quiet for a while. He was thinking about what to do. Is he going to trust Naruto, or is he going to refuse to tell him what's inside of that chamber, and simply leave. Then again, he doesn't know to what lengths Naruto would go to find out what's in that chamber, and he can't risk him causing damage, as that would be potentially catastrophic.

"First, tell me about yourself," the Great Red said, making Naruto raise his eyebrows. "How are you a member of the Royal Line of the Uzumaki, when all of them have died in the war, and you don't look old enough to be over 30 years old? What are you, exactly? You are not normal human, I can tell that much, but I can't tell what you are. Tell me about yourself, and if I deem you worthy, I'll tell you about the creation of the chamber and what's inside."

Naruto looked at the dragon for a few moments, before he sighed, and said. "I'm a member of the Royal Line from my mother's side. She survived the war, because she wasn't in the village during the attack. She was sent to Konoha sometime before the attack." The dragon's eyes widened at this, as he didn't know it. Neither Kouen nor Mila have mentioned anything about the Royal Uzumaki being sent to Konoha.

"Why was she sent there?" The Great Red asked.

"She was sent to become Kyūbi Jinchūriki," Naruto said, much to the dragons shock. "She was to have Kyūbi sealed inside of her since Mito Uzumaki was close to her end, and only Uzumaki can hold Kyūbi. When the Land of Whirlpools was destroyed, my mother was in Konoha, and has stayed there until almost 16 years ago, when she died… on the same night I was born.

"My mother's name, was Kushina Uzumaki, the second Jinchūriki of Kyūbi, and I'm Naruto Uzumaki, the former, third jinchūriki of Kyūbi."