Ch. 3
(Ten years later)
It's been 10 years since he had first met his children, and Virgil can say without a shred of doubt that he was proud of them.
Both are intelligent but they have areas where they do better than the other, like hagoromo is more proficient in the usage of the elements and his dojutsu techniques, whereas, hamura is more proficient in physical combat and the usage of his dojutsu.
They both have grown into fine young men. Hagoromo and Hamura are both 16 years old now and both have grown well. Hagoromo has tan skin and dark red hair with a long bang on the left side of his face with a bandage wrapped in the middle of it. He has metallic purple ringed eyes with a chiseled face. Hamura, on the other hand, has glowing blue eyes with overlapping flower-like pupils with a chiseled face. He has pale skin and white hair with a long band on the right side of his face with a bandage wrapped around the middle of it. They both have horns on their foreheads.
6 years into their training he finally told them the truth about why he was there, and they accepted it. And they have been training harder because of it.
Right now Virgil is giving his final goodbyes, for a few years at least, but not without a farewell gift, "boys when you were born, you both had about 1% of my power, now you both have about 5% so here take this it will activate when the time is right." He said while holding out two orbs of chakra, one being red a black the other being greenish-brown(for hagoromo and hamura respectively).
They both take it already knowing what it is and thanked their father profusely.
"Must you go, father?" Hagoromo asks sadly, in a calm voice. Hamura nodded silently, but equally as sad.
"Yes, I don't play my role till way later. Remember boys you've got 4 years until I release the juubi so prepare yourselves." Virgil says.
"Yes father, but are sure you can't tell us any more about the future?" Hagoromo asks curiously
"Other than what I've already told you, no. If I tell you too much you could mess up the future, I'm sorry boys." Virgil says knowing that what he already told them could be risky.
"Very well then father, don't let this be our last goodby." Hamura said calmly before he and Hagoromo disappeared from the mindscape completely.
Virgil sighed heavily, thankful that he only told them about their part in dealing with their mother and nothing about Zetsu.
"Speaking of Zetsu I should go and meet him, I haven't seen him in a while." He muttered to himself before disappearing from his mindscape as well.
After meeting with Zetsu, who was happy to see his father again, he went to meet with inner Kaguya again. Upon arriving he was immediately pulled into a soul-searing kiss, and he knew right away it wasn't time for talking before Kaguya's mind was filled with moans and groans that
would last for hours, just like so many times before.
(Two days later)
We find both Virgil and Kaguya resting quietly when Kaguya breaks the silence, "so just a few years left until the real story begins." Virgil shakes his head and responds, "No the real story begins in 1,504 years, what happens till then are just the events leading to that." Kaguya hums and asks what he'll be doing until then, to which he takes a thinking position and responds with, "well we've already finished your training' 'tch more like hell' she thought while shuddering at remembering her so-called "training", Virgil sees this, smirks, then continues 'so I think I will go to my new training dimension and train, maybe even visit some of the other realms while I'm at it." He shrugs before standing up.
"You know what you're going to do, right?" He asks while looking her in the eyes.
She rolls her eyes and, while chuckling, responds with, "yes my love while I'm in the moon I will have to be asleep." Virgil is about to respond when she interrupts him by saying, "yes I know that when I'm asleep I'll be able to watch what happens." Virgil just shakes his while chuckling, "alright I just don't want you to be bored while sealed away." He kisses her before telling her goodbye and vanishing from the mindscape to go train.
Virgil cannot leave his tree to interact with the world, or at least his body can't, his soul, on the other hand, now that's a different matter entirely. You see the soul is what keeps the body alive but when you reach godhood you can split your soul into many pieces and, only if your mind can handle it (something most of if not all Gods can't do, good thing Virgil is a primordial and can handle it easily), live many lives or gain much experience by doing this, it can also be used for small tasks like sending messages.
Virgil used this technique to meet with Zetsu and confirm his orders and wait for Hagoromo to create the bijuu.
While this is happening Virgil is in his new training dimension getting ready for some non-stop training. He made this dimension to be the perfect place for training, why? Because 1 year outside is 2,000 years on the inside, not only that but this dimension also increases its gravity every time Virgil gets accustomed to it, it also increases resistance making it feel as though you are constantly walking in water, it automatically repairs itself, and when he's done with trading, or just feels like it really, then there are realm tears that allow easier access to other realms.
He also discovered that sometime in the future a clan closely related to the future Senju clan studies a very interesting art called, fuinjutsu, or sealing techniques, that allow the user of said art to do almost everything and anything. He thought learning that art would greatly increase his training by massive amounts, one of his future mates being a seal mistress was also a good incentive (can't impress her if he can't speak her language, no sir). He learned EVERYTHING about that art to the point all it took was a simple application of his chakra to any part of his body and he could create a seal from it.
Using the knowledge he gained he created seals that took the form of many different designs covering his arms, hands, shoulders, chest, and stomach, back, thighs, legs, and feet. The seal-like tattoos (which will just be called seals from now on) on his arms, thighs, legs, and shoulders are chakra suppression seals and chakra control seals which means controlling his chakra is easier, they are designed to look like chains that cover his entire arm up to the
shoulder and the entire leg up to directly beneath his hips. The seals on his hands and feet are weight seals, resistance seals, and gravity seals and are designed to look like intricate circles with swirls directly on the top and bottom and on the left and right with three smaller circles on the inside with numbers inside those circles, one number controls his overall weight, one controls the gravity around him, and the last one makes it feel as though his whole body is walking through thick mud. He also has those on the back of his shoulder blades and the back of his thighs. The seal on his stomach resembles a very intricately designed swirl, this seal works by destroying his control over his chakra and making it harder to control his chakra (I know it sounds like the seals on his arms and legs and the one on his stomach contradict each other but they don't, the seals on his arms make it easier to PERFORM chakra control and the one on his stomach makes it harder to use chakra). The seal on his back stores nature chakra and his excess chakra which won't be important till way later.
Anyway, enough chatter, time to train.
(Timeskip)
1,504 years have passed(or 3,008,000 years due to the time difference) and Virgil has trained non-stop. He started by splitting his conscience into 6 pieces and each piece created an army of 10,000 clones each. He had 50,000 clones to master his nature transformations, 5,000 clones to master his kekkei genkais, 2,500 clones to master his other abilities, and the last 2,500 to work on chakra control and mastery over his chakra. While the clones were doing this the 6 consciousness pieces were doing the physical training like taijutsu and kenjutsu all the while the seals kept increasing when he would get used to them. He would also do normal physical workouts like push ups, situps, running laps, punching a chakra/shock absorbing punching bag (so it doesn't explode like the last few) and many other exercises. The original went to battle armies of 'moku bunshins', or wood clones, because they each take more than one hit to dispel and possess the same amount of skill as him. When he wasn't training he was meditating and reviewing important information he had gained. He had also forgotten about him gaining chakra from everything in the simulation and everything outside of it as well, to remedy this he created a seal that would instead absorb that chakra and ease it into his system so as not to mess up his hard work.
When he wasn't meditating, he was visiting the other realms to study them and he has to say these realms are pretty different from the simulation and his in-between (the in-between used to be the only dimension till he killed minaka and destroyed it thus creating the in-between) but he already has plans on how to manipulate them.
And when he wasn't studying in these dimensions he was fighting in their wars to gain experience instead. Some of these wars are quite brutal and some were quite pointless. He remembers meeting a young boy who aspired to be a painter, 'Adolf, I think his name was.' Virgil thought nostalgicly, he eventually remembers that same boy becoming one the most evil men in the world, he also remembers killing him and making it look like a suicide. *sigh* Good times.
But that's for later, right now Virgil is remembering when kaguya got sealed and when he had his talk with kurama and the others.
(Flashback)
The memory starts by showing the kaguya absorbing the ten tailed beast into herself and becoming even stronger and taking on a demonic appearance of a beast with 10 tails sharp
teeth and her blood red ringed eye. The transformation had just been completed when all of a sudden two young men appeared with grim resolution.
Hagoromo and Hamura had just arrived and were looking at their mother in sadness while their mother stared at them with hatred.
The battle had gone on for a full week before they started losing ground. They were losing and they knew it, but they wouldn't lose no matter what. They started fighting harder, unaware of their glowing bodies and the rush of new power. They unknowingly activated the power their father gave them and started beating their mother.
Their mother had finally been defeated before Hagoromo sealed her power into himself and sealed the husk of the beast into a newly created moon (after the old one was destroyed by a bijuudama) with Hamura volunteering to watch over it.
But before kaguya could be sealed she tried to use the last of her energy to create something which ultimately failed but she didn't know that because zetsu, or black zetsu as she called him, was still "created" by her to do her bidding.
Hagoromo gave Hamura a hug saying goodbye and that he would miss him. Hamura left the very next day and Hagoromo wandered the world giving chakra to everyone.
(Timeskip)
Hagoromo named his youngest son his successor unknowingly creating one of the greatest feuds ever. Hagoromo died after splitting the ten-tailed beast chakra into nine new beings, the 9 bijuu.
The shinju conscience piece had formed a mental connection with the bijuu and brought them into his mindscape.
(Mindscape)
The bijuu looked around warily because they found themselves in an area different then the one they were in before. The area they were in now was a large desolate planet with no wild or plant life except the giant white tree with black leaves. They could also see many different swirling colors and stars and what looked like clouds, and in one area was pure darkness. They were going to shout out if anyone was there when whatever was out there made itself known.
"Now, now what's with that stance children? I come to meet my new grandkids and they look at me as though I'm a bad guy, how mean." A voice boomed out, scaring the young bijuu.
"W-w-w-who's there?" They all ask, scared out of their minds.
"Calm down children so I can tell you." The voice tells them.
"S-s-show yourself first "grandfather"." Kurama says with false bravado when he says grandfather.
"*chuckles* very well then little one I will show myself." The voice said in a grandfatherly tone.
The area of pure darkness gave away to a truly shocking site, a large throne that looks to be made of wood but it wasn't the throne that shocked them it was the being on the throne smiling softly down at them.
The being looked to be made out of wood from the big white tree with black veins on his body, he has a crown on his head, the glowing shinjugan in his eye sockets, a very muscular build with what looked to be black wooden armor and a black cloak that also looked to be made of wood but felt surprisingly normal.
"So, now that you know what I look like, will you allow me to explain?" He asked while smiling.
"E-e-explain w-w-what?" Saiken asked while quivering.
The being opened his palm and summoned her to it which made her appear in a puff of smoke. The being pet her tiny head to calm her down which worked significantly and made her lean into it. Kurama was about to demand her back when the being spoke.
"Everything that I can." The being said before explaining everything that he could without revealing anything that could mess up the future. When he was done explaining all of them were shocked at who exactly was in front of them and the role that they play.
"So we have to do this ji-chan?" Shukaku asks with a curious head tilt.
During the explanation they all moved onto him in different positions: kurama and shukaku on his lap resting, kokuo grazing along his massive arms, son goku swinging around his crown, isobu resting on the back of his left hand, gyuki sitting on his right palm, chomei flying around his head and occasionally on his ear, matabi resting on his left shoulder, and finally saiken is resting peacefully on his right shoulder.
"Yes little one, Kaguya unknowingly became the "doorway" for me to bring certain people with me, you little ones, my mates, and my horseman and my kings." Virgil said calmly.
"So, we have to play our parts in order for us to leave?" Matabi asks curiously while scratching her claws on his shoulder pad.
He sweatdrops at her actions before replying with, "Yes, now little ones I must go and prepare for the future so this will be good bye for now, and remember you don't have to pretend to like the humans, just do what feels natural." And then teleporting them to the ground, tossed them a lazy grin before flaring his power and disappearing.
With his exit he left 9 wide eyed bijuu to go back to their own bodies.
(Flashback end)
He shook his head and rubbed his nose before noticing his seals. He made the seals look like chains that wrap the entirety of his body from his shoulders and neck down, they don't cover his hard and feet though, the seals function the same way as all the others only with one full body seal.
It's a weight seal, gravity seal, resistance seal all set to the same number to keep his body balanced and a chakra suppression seal to keep people from sensing the literal chakra god that is shinju.
He used his future sight and saw that he would have to take the guise of a mortal to finally enact his plan.
The mortal disguise he created was...minato namikaze, a young orphan boy with sun kissed blond hair, ocean blue eyes, a slim face with a swimmers body.
(Sometime later)
Currently we find a four year old minato being escorted to the hokage who is sitting in his office writing battle plans to win this damn war.
The hokage looks up from his work when he hears a knock at his door,
"Come in," he says.
The door opens and in comes a young fairly dirty orphan with dirty hair and bright blue eyes being escorted by 2 (unimportant) jonin.
"Hokage-sama while we were scouting that destroyed village west of hi no kuni we felt a spike in chakra nearby, when we arrived to investigate we found four dead enemy shinobi surrounding this young man in front of a burned down orphanage." Jonin 1 informed briefly.
"Any other survivors?" The hokage asked, already knowing the answer but hoping he was wrong.
"None hokage-sama." Jonin 2 states sadly.
"Very well, you two are dismissed" the hokage ordered.
The two nodded and shunshined out to return scouting. The man and the boy are left alone staring at one another before the hokage asks, "why don't you introduce yourself young man?" Before noting the mischief in the boy's eyes.
"Isn't it polite to introduce yourself first?" The boy said cheekily with a grin.
The hokage chuckled, surprised that this young boy could be okay after seemingly experiencing his first kills, before saying, "I guess it is, well allow me to introduce myself, I am the god of shinobi, the professor, the third hokage, hiruzen sarutobi but you can call me-" he was interrupted by a shout of "old man!" from the boy, drawing snickers from the hidden ANBU, and a facefault from himself.
He got up chuckling, "Yes, I guess you can call me old man." Earning a giggle from the boy who then decided to introduce himself, "well I am minato namikaze but can i ask you a question old man?" Sarutobi nodded.
"Well, what's a hokage?" Minato asked confusedly.
Sarutobi smiles and says, "the hokage is the leader of a village he makes sure the village prospers' seeing minato lose interest he chose a different strategy 'the hokage is also like a father or a mother to all that are part of the village and all part of the village are the children to the hokage they are the hokages family." At the word family, Minato perked up and smiled, before saying, "I want to be the hokage then."
Hiruzen gave a hearty chuckle and looked into Minato's eyes, Minato seeing this activated his eyes and ensnared the old man in a genjutsu only controlled by him (Virgil), before his eyes went blank for a second and back to normal.
The reason for the genjutsu is quite simple really. Minato knows he will have to access certain information and to do that he will need more...maneuverability, if you will. By putting hiruzen in a genjutsu he effectively gained access to anything he will ever need, which will come in handy in the future.
"Before we get into that, let's first talk about what happened to those shinobi." He noticed Minato's bright blue eyes dull and his face turned stoic instantly, like a veteran shinobi.
"I don't remember much, all I remember was feeling really angry when hearing them talk about how they raped all the woman, adult and child, and killed all the boys before burning the building down. When I woke up I was covered in blood with those guys that brought me here, standing over me." He told them, which technically isn't a lie he just stumbled onto them randomly, already like that, took the form of a child, and covered himself in blood. But he didn't need to know that.
"Well enough of this my boy you said you want to become the hokage then you will need to train to be a ninja first and you won't be able to do that for another 2 years." The hokage says.
"Alright then, I will become a ninja, no, I will become the best ninja ever!" Minato proclaimed with his head held high, his chest puffed out and his fists on his hips.
The hokage chuckled, "Well my boy, train hard and do your best. Now then, we must provide you with a home, and a stipend maybe." The hokage tapped his chin curiously.
The hokage got an idea before asking, "How about we set you up in a nice apartment, how does that sound?" Minato thought for a bit before nodding his head.
"Alright then, my ANBU will escort you there, here you go." He says before handing Minato a key.
"Alright bye old man!" Minato shouts as he is shunshinned away.
(A little while later)
The apartment was very nice. It had a hallway connecting three bedrooms together, one had a king sized bed positioned against the center of the wall closest to the door, a dresser and mirror, two bedside tables on either side of the bed. The other rooms were empty, he planned on turning one into a study and one into a storage room. There were two bathrooms, both stocked with essentials like cleaning products, towels, toilet paper, soaps, and a toothbrush and toothpaste, with a shower, sink, and toilet with functioning plumbing.
There was a well furnished living room with a loveseat and recliner positioned around a coffee table on the center of the room, a smaller table where the right side of the love seat and the left side of the recliner meet, a bookshelf in the corner of the room with a window on the farthest wall which is across the room from the door. The kitchen had a sink, an oven/stove and a refrigerator. The refrigerator was stocked with food just like the cabinets and pantry. All in all, it was a badass apartment.
In the living room
We find a clean minato lazing about when a knock comes from the door. Minato stood up and stretched before walking to it and answering it.
"Ahhh...just the man I was expecting." Minato says, surprising his visitor who narrowed their eyes a moment later.
