'The curse of team 7'
Any shinobi that has been in the line of teaching a genin team knows of this supposed curse.
The story for how this curse came to be was through the myth that the shinigami had cursed the hidden leaf village.
As it goes during the reign of the Shodaime Hokage, Hashirama Senju, his younger sibling, Tobirama Senju, had came up with the idea of assigning numbers to individual teams to tell them apart.
When his idea had been approved by his brother Tobirama then took on his first genin team, one that he trained before Hiruzen and Danzo.
His team was Team 7.
At the time of the teams formation Tobirama had been developing, what was considered in the shinobi world, a mass weapon of chaos.
A jutsu that to this day many considered a myth that they wished to never be true.
The Reanimation Jutsu
A technique that allowed the user to bring long dead warriors back to the living world to fight as tireless, unstoppable soldiers.
The Shinigami, whom already disliked the shinobi world for tampering in it's domain saw this as not only an insult, but a direct challenge to it's authority The God of Death.
The curse was called the Yin and Yang curse or the curse of team 7.
One member of the team was meant to rise to glory and fame, to stand above all else and to triumph in situations many would consider impossible. They would be the embodiment of Yang.
On the other hand another member was meant to fall to darkness and become evil incarnate, to be a being driven by their own desires and ideals and not hesitate to destroy anyone in their path. They would be the embodiment of Yin.
And the final member was to be merger between both, forced to dance on a thin line of life and death, suffering from the consequences of the others actions, to be good or evil was decided on who had the most impact on the person. The divider.
Over the years as teams were formed this trend held true.
Jiraiya, Tsunade Senju, Orochimaru.
Minato Namikaze, Fugaku Uchiha, and their unnamed third teammate.
Speculations said that Hiruzen and Danzo were unaffected due to being in an apprenticeship under the Nidaime rather than being a apart of the team.
However of all the team 7s that have come and gone one stood out from the rest and that was Team Minato.
Kakashi was meant to be the embodiment of Yin while his teammate, Obito was meant to be the embodiment of Yang and his other teammate Rin was to be the divider.
However as is known today, what was meant to become of their legacies were altered during the war.
Obito died, Rin was killed and Kakashi became famous as a Hero.
However that didn't mean that the curse was broken. Kakashi knew that as a fact.
Currently he stood in the training ground before his three students studying them, scrutinizing them with his gaze so that they may stay still for his announcement.
It had been over a week since his 'request' and over that set amount of time he had been observing his genin as this decision he had made was sure to cause some kind of ripple or tear in that curse, but he wanted to know just who embodied which ideal.
It wasn't hard to find the answer.
Naruto was Yang, Sasuke was Yin and Sakura was the divider between both. Their destinies had been set in stone by The Death God itself, however he hoped that Fate would alter their destinies and lead them from an unfortunate demise.
"Kakashi-sensei is there a reason you kept us behind" His blonde student asked him, squirming in place from the man's intense gaze.
Kakashi saw his other two students also was wondering that same question.
They had completed all their missions and done their usual team bonding exercise, so why were they there?
Closing his eyes Kakashi took in a breath and spoke.
"There will be a shift in our team from now on," Kakashi began, His students paying close attention as it was the first time they heard the scarecrow speak seriously outside of battle instead of his usual lazy tone.
"You will be losing a member and obtaining a new member from a different team" he didn't hear it but he knew their breaths had hitched in their throats. "As such you will all need to work on your team work with your new partner"
"Naruto" he looked at the boy in question who was now frozen like a statue. "You will be on Team 4 from now on, meet them at training ground 15 next Tuesday and don't try to give them a hard time."
Kakashi expected a lot of things from his announcement, he expected Naruto to be furious, to yell at him, to question him, to resent him.
He expected Naruto to cry, to see the unbreakable boy crumble, to see him break down in and shed tears that had not seen the light of day in so long.
He expected Naruto to smile, to see a vindictive cynical side of him to show show, to see that Naruto didn't care about this decision and take it in stride, to see him ask off all this was some kind of joke and laugh.
Kakashi did not dislike Naruto, far from it, however these thoughts had entered his mind against his will and the only thing he could do was prepare to plan what he should do, say, act to placate the boy and show he meant no harm.
Each reaction Kakashi had mentally prepared himself for was not to be.
Instead of an outburst Team 7 was met with a surprising sight that each had them taking a step back mentally.
Naruto's face was blank holding non of the emotions he- they had expected, for the second time in their life they saw Naruto completely despondent to the world.
It was barely unnoticeable and would have gone unrecognized but Kakashi saw, just for a split second the mask broke, the light in his eyes that grew more and more genuine looking as time passed and his mask attempted to reinsert itself onto the boys face, faded away leaving twin pools of hollow blue eyes.
When he blinked that shine was back albeit a bit dimmed.
He watched as his blonde student stood up, no words left his lips, no body movements or twitches that gave away how he felt externally and his eyes were now a frosty glacial blue instead of their natural sky blue.
Naruto turned around and left without a word the only sound he made were his footsteps that grew quite the further he left.
Kakashi watched the back of his student with a critical gaze as if trying to decipher him.
'that look' Kakashi thought, he had seen that very same expression on his face after Inari insulted them at the dinner table, the very same expression he had seen before Naruto's seemingly random change in demeanor.
He knew he shouldn't be trying to figure out why The boy lacked any of the emotions he had thought would bubble up from the boy but he would feel bad about his decision later right now he had to prepare a new schedule to his team.
Kakashi waited before his other two students to leave before he himself vanished in a swirl of leaves.
The moment Kakashi vanished however two masked shinobis dropped into the clearing.
"Are you sure this was were you felt the chakra signature" the first ninja inquired.
The shinobi's voice was deep giving away that they were male. The man had a lean build and had long vibrant red hair, he wore a longsleeved black shirt with a Burgundy vest over it and dark red ANBU pants with black shinobi sandals. He had black fingerless gloves and had a plain black mask with a red streak that began at the bottom left of the mask and ran across the eyehole and ninjato strapped to his back.
"yes I'm sure this is where the chakra originated, I also feel the lingering effects of the Kyuubi's chakra as well as another unknown chakra" the second replied.
The shinobi's voice was a lighter tone giving away that they were female. The woman had a curvaceous but lean figure and had long midnight black hair that cascaded down her back, she wore a similar outfit to her companion except for her mask the had two red streaks that began at the top of her head and ended above the holes for her eyes.
"The Kyuubi…. That could be an issue along with that other chakra" The masked man began "However that is of not major concern as of now we must report back to Keya-sama of the success of the mission" he said both disappearing from the clearing in torrents of water.
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Forest clearing
Naruto sat down against the bark of a tree, watching blankly as the water flowed down the river.
This place was Naruto's personal training ground when he was younger, or a place where he could be himself and escape the hate of the villagers.
This was also where he had first met Hokage-jiji all those years ago.
This lone area was somewhere Naruto loved almost as much as the Hokage monument, where he usually go to clear his head and to feel connected to those before him so as to strengthen is resolve on an opinion that irritated him.
But this area was however, was where Naruto would come to just relax and escape reality, after all this place was beautiful even as a child he would always be awe struck by just how fantastic it looked both at early day or on a late night.
"I was kicked off my team" The words were like ash on his tongue, "why…"
That one simple question annoyed him to no end yet he felt neither anger nor sadness, just bitter curiosity.
Naruto felt a slight tingling in his arms but paid no mind, then slowly his mind began blanking as the air felt like invisible ice on his skin just like-
'-THAT NIGHT!' Naruto jerked up from his sitting position as if he had been scalded by hot water.
Quickly moving to the river side he peered into the crystal waters and saw his reflection.
His lone right blue eye now matched his covered left one, dull silver with a five pointed star.
Quickly remembering the odd tingling sensation in his arms Naruto brought his hands in front of his line of sight catching a slight glimpse of pure white chakra that retreated back into his body.
"W-was that it?" he asked himself, once more trying to reach out for the strange chakra only to come up empty handed.
"does it only reacts to my emotions?" he muttered "that's…. A bit cliché actually" If he was being honest he really didn't care if his situation was cliché right now, sometimes that's just how life was.
It also helped that he knew the Kyuubi's chakra and every other Bijuu chakra reacted from their containers emotions as well.
"But then what emotion is it," that was the million dollar question that he pushed to the back of his mind for later evaluation.
Looking back at his previous position Naruto was met with a curious sight.
The grass and tree bark once bright green and dark brown respectively were now both a ghostly ashen white.
"Is that what it does" Naruto asked himself stepping closer to the area examining it as best he could.
There was only one slight issue with that.
Naruto no matter how he changed skill and personality, in terms of actually book sense he might as well been the 'old' Naruto, that didn't mean he wasn't trying to change this, he even picked up -read stole- a few books from the library.
But right he was just beginning meaning right now-
-Naruto didn't know jack shit.
"What the hell even is this, can all I do is turn the world around me white." He wondered scratching his head a bit before shrugging. He'd figure out what he can do with this power later after he began that book on bloodline limits.
"Should probably start that sooner Rather than later" He said with a shudder as phantom pains ran through his body, although he couldn't exactly remember what happened on the bridge he still did remember the ice attacks that hit him.
Who knows how many more freaky bloodline enemies he might have to fight in the future.
A yawn escaped Naruto's mouth as he tiredly rubbed his eye, his fatigue from lack of sleep catching up to him.
"Stupid nightmares" he, not for the first time, cursed his night terrors as he left his clearing to sleep. Unfortunately Naruto was unaware of the other cloaked masked shinobi that fell into his clearing.
Walking over to the blonde's previous sitting position they crouched to the ground passing their hand over the surface on the grass and tree, A tingling sensation running along their hand numbing their nerves.
Pulling away their hand they saw their skin became a paler tone.
Standing up the masked shinobi disappeared in a swirl of leaves.
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ROOT Headquarters
Danzo looked down at the kneeling shining before him, his face plastered in an expressionless mask made easier from the bandages that covered half his face.
"Report" it was a single command that got the otherwise silent shinobi speaking.
"Danzo-sama, Uzumaki Naruto has just displayed a new ability of his bloodline that allows him to alter the world around him, allowing natural landmass to siphon chakra from the human body and destroy the nerves and blood cells at the area of contact. Further information will be forwarded to you after the research to study the area."
"Interesting….. You are dismissed" Danzo waved the ROOT ninja away that disappeared in a body flicker.
"The ability to not only destroy the cells and blood in the body, but also alter the world to siphon chakra and damage the nerves as well, not to mention the increase in skill and power" Danzo recalled the information from the wave mission.
"This bloodline along with the Kyuubi's chakra if trained correctly could become a powerful shinobi that shakes the very shinobi world" gears began moving in Danzo's mind, A smirk slowly stretching his face.
"Well then Uzumaki it seems you do have some potential after all, to have this new bloodline, you truly live up to your name sake" Getting up, Danzo began making his way out his office getting ready to once more rearrange his plans for konoha now that yet the most unpredictable variable threw a wrench in his plans. "However not all is bad, You will be perfect for the position if trained properly"
"my future successor"
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A/N: alright I am beginning to get the wheel turning for this story which you can see is already going off course from the original plot.
Kakashi tries to break this supposed 'curse' and realizes theirs is more to Naruto than meet the eye.
Keya is an unknown along with the other two shinobi.
Naruto finds out he is removed from the team and discovers a bit of his power, since I am planning on steadily adding on new abilities.
And Danzo is going to have an active role in the story in an attempt to make Naruto his successor as the leader of ROOT.
Like always hope you enjoy reading my brain run wild in creating a story line and criticism is welcomed.