People talking, "Hello everyone."
People thinking, 'I think the cake is better than pie.'
Demon/beast/other talking, "I will eat you."
Demon/beast/other thinking, 'Soup is excellent… mmm… tomatoes'
Jutsu/Unknown names, "Suiton: Mizudeppō no Jutsu."
'Document'
Italics can be used for certain kinds of emphasis or snide comments.
Bold can be used for forceful yelling/shouting/screaming.
Chapter Five: Bloody Rain Massacre
Naruto groaned, cracking his pale pupil-less eyes he observed the leaves on the curved ceiling, the light filtering through the branches and vines. Naruto's eyes pulsed and he examined his surroundings from his spot on the ground.
He was in the middle of a vast forest, plant and animal life surrounding the plant dome that he was inside. Outside the dome he discovered Gaara, gazing at a small campfire. 'Gaara!' Naruto sat up suddenly but stopped when his head flared in pain.
"Don't overwork yourself Naruto-kun, you're Rinne-Sharingan was not ready to perform that technique." Naruto heard his mother's berating and worried tone, 'Hello mother,' Naruto answered, getting to his feet gradually and walking toward the vine wall that retracted out of his way as he heard his mothers good morning.
As the vines retracted, Gaara looked over and saw his friend walk out of the dome, nodding he turned back to the fire, rotating a small rabbit on a stick. Gaara's clothes were soaked in blood, and there was a large hole In the cloth on his chest and back where he had been impaled.
"Glad to see your okay Gaara," Naruto said, sitting down next to the redhead on the grass.
"Thanks to you, Shukaku told me you used one of your mother's abilities to teleport us," Gaara replied, turning slightly and looking at Naruto.
"Yeah, but my body wasn't ready for it." Naruto winced, "How long have I been out?"
"A week, it took Shukaku two days to fully heal the hole in my chest." Was Gaara's emotionless reply, Naruto moved his elbow on to his knee, supporting his chin.
"Well, obviously our escape didn't work quite like we would've liked… Anyway, do you want me to unseal our supplies?" Naruto asked, seeing the assortment of things Gaara had created while waiting for Naruto to wake up. There was a small rock table, fire pit, and Gaara had also constructed a spit on which to cook animals over, on the rocky table there sat several bowls and cups made of sand.
"Yes please," Gaara replied, Naruto nodded and concentrated his chakra in his palm. The next moment there was a puff of smoke and when it faded Naruto was holding a large scroll in his lap.
Naruto handed the scroll to Gaara who unrolled it and unsealed a change of clothes and some food. Walking a ways off sand rose around Gaara in a small dome as he changed.
Naruto felt his stomach grumble, getting up and walking over to the scroll he unsealed some food and cooking supplies. When Gaara came back, he found Naruto had moved his fully cooked rabbit off to the side and was now cooking soup in a pot.
Gaara moved his sand through the air to the cooked rabbit that Naruto's plants were holding, once taking it from the plants they receded into the ground. Gaara transferred the rabbit over to the table where he proceeded to prepare it. Gaara had learned a lot from Shukaku over the last week while waiting for Naruto to wake up, including how to hunt and cook food, surprisingly the raccoon was quite good at such things.
Naruto walked over a moment later with the pot, putting it down between them on the table, sitting cross-legged on the rocky surface. Gaara watched fascinated as Naruto held his hands apart for a few moments, slowly a simple gray bowl formed in between his hands on the table, Naruto took a deep breath before holding his hand out. A couple of moments later a grey spoon appeared. Satisfied Naruto distributed some soup into his bowl before beginning to eat.
Gaara rose an eyebrow, as he finished cutting up the rabbit his sand grabbed the ladle and distributed some of the soup into his own bowl made of sand, afterward, a spoon made of sand appeared within the container as well. Gaara finished with the rabbit and took a bite of the meat before beginning to eat his soup.
Naruto's eyes blanked as he ate his food slowly, enjoying the taste of the soup. 'Kaa-san, do you know where we are?' Naruto questioned, "That would be a better question for your father, while I did transport you I was just trying to get you out of there," Kaguya replied.
Naruto nodded, and the next moment he felt his father's presence in his mind, information about the shape of the world and where he was on it came to his head immediately. 'Thank you Tou-san, Kaa-san.' Naruto received a feeling of happiness from both his parents in return.
When his eyes refocused, he found Gaara looking at him expectantly. "We are at the border between the Land of Rain and the Land of Wind," Naruto answered Gaara's unspoken question, getting a nod from the boy.
"Are our priorities still the same?" Gaara asked, pulling off another bite of meat from the rabbit." Naruto nodded, "Yes, the Nibi is still the first thing on the list, Mother says that absorbing will be less painful if down in order of the tails."
"We are going through Rain, Grass and Waterfall territory before we get to Cloud village," Naruto said before taking another spoonful of soup. Gaara nodded without looking up, continuing eating.
Around 15 minutes later they both stood and cleaned up the camp, the wooden vine dome receding back into the ground. Naruto sealed the large scroll with their possessions into himself again. They both set out in the direction of the Land of Rain, traveling away from the Land of Wind and Suna.
Several days later
Naruto and Gaara walked calmly through the trees, having made good progress through the Land of Rain, Naruto guessed it would take a couple weeks at the pace they had been going before reaching the cloud village. While Naruto and Gaara were both powerful for their age, they weren't as fast as Jounin, well, Naruto was if he used his Helix. But then he would leave Gaara behind, and that would defeat the point.
As Naruto walked, he practiced creating a random assortment of objects out of his Chakra, trying to get the several minute creation time down. It now took him 30 seconds to a minute depending on how complicated what he was creating was.
Gaara besides him was working on creating a new technique he had come up with based on Naruto's Byakugan, it was incomplete, but by creating an eye of sand, he would close one of his own and be able to see out of it. Moving the eye around near him and seeing things usually hidden to him.
As they walked, Kaguya watched from within her mindscape, proud of her son for going out into the admittedly dark shinobi world in an attempt to learn and help others. 'He is going to lead the war against my family, and I am sure that he will win.' Kaguya thought, proud of her son and all that he has accomplished already. Gaara was a true friend and someone that truly valued and cared about Naruto, and Kaguya could tell that Naruto cared about Gaara. If it wasn't clear before Naruto awoke his Mangekyo Sharingan, then it definitely was after. 'Ahh, I'll need to explain that later, he probably doesn't remember using the Sharingan and Mangekyo.' Kaguya mused.
Naruto suddenly stopped walking, staring off blankly. Gaara didn't notice for a moment, continuing walking for a couple of feet before turning and staring at the stock still Naruto for a couple of moments.
Gaara said nothing, waiting for his friend to finish talking to his parents. Naruto blinked, his pale eyes coming into focus and turning to him.
"Tou-san says that the Gobi is nearby and in trouble, he thinks we ought to go over there and help if possible," Naruto said, Gaara only nodded, waiting until Naruto leaped off into the trees before following after them. It took them about an hour of their fastest travel before they arrived at a pathway of sorts.
In front of them for several yards, the trees were all torn up in a line, starting from the right and going to the left. Naruto raised a clipped circular eyebrow at the strange sight, tempted to follow the path to see where it led, but he continued on forward across the gap in the trees toward where his father sensed the Gobi.
A couple of minutes later Naruto heard the rumble of a jutsu and saw a giant wave of water over the treetops. A loud roar of pain followed it directly afterward. Naruto and Gaara shared a look before stopping on the branches of the trees at the edge of a large mostly destroyed clearing.
Within the clearing things were grim for the 5-tails, he had been battling his opponent all day, having been cornered by his opponent with a massive barrier that prevented him from using his immense speed to escape. While his opponent wasn't in the best of shape, Gobi was suffering many injuries and had shrunk down to the size of a small horse, his chakra being expended almost entirely in the long battle with the man in front of him.
Said shinobi was wearing a black cape with a hood that came up over his head and hair, the lower half of his face obscured in the same black material, around his neck was wrapped a blue scarf with the Kanji for 5 on each end. His eyes were his jacket was dark blue with long sleeves, on his hands were two light blue gloves that ended like claws. Around his waist in a tilted slant was a dark yellow belt that had pouches attached to it in the back. He wore aqua colored baggy pants that ended in his high black boots. Naruto's eyes widened as he noticed with his Byakugan that the man was soaking wet, continually dripping water onto the ground.
"Water Gun: Two Guns!" The man shouted, pointing a pointer finger from each hand toward the limping form of the smaller Gobi.
The horse-like dolphin's eyes widened, seeing the two water bullets fly through the air toward him. The Gobi got to his feet and tried to move as quickly as he could out of the way. He dodged the first one, but the mysterious man had predicted that and the second bullet flew toward where he now was. The Gobi's eyes widened, wrapping his tails in front of him in a makeshift shield.
Before the bullet reached the Gobi, it impacted a wall of plants and sand, stopping it in its tracks. The hooded man's eyes narrowed, looking around the clearing trying to find whoever defended his prey.
"Come out before I come and find you!" The man yelled, his purple eyes shifting around the trees. The next moment he watched as two boys appeared before the miniature Gobi. His keen purple eyes alighted on the admittedly strange looking duo. The one on the right had remarkably pale skin and two horns coming from each side of his head, the man's eyes narrowed as he saw the strange looking boys eyes, two pale pupil-less orbs glaring at him. The boy also had clipped circular eyebrows and wore a white kimono with a light green sash. The man was surprised to see a boy so young with white hair, which was shaggy and long, a bandaged bang coming of the boys face.
The other boy was not as interesting but still intriguing. Red hair with somewhat bloodshot green eyes, the boy had the Kanji for love tattooed on his forehead. The man watched as sand flowed out of the large gourd on the boys back, it swirling around him menacingly. The Gobi's tails flared and were about to attack the boys when it suddenly stopped and apparently visibly relaxed, confusing the man.
"Get out of here brats." The man threatened, raising his hands slightly. The pale boy only narrowed his eyes at him.
"Who are you?" The one with horns asked, his hand raising slightly as well.
The blue hooded man declined to answer, rushing forward a blade of water formed in his hand. Naruto was surprised to see that this man who was strong enough to fight the Gobi was not moving all that quickly. 'He must be tired, we can most likely scare him off or possibly defeat him.' Naruto mused, turning to Gaara he got a nod.
"Great Explosion!" Naruto yelled, throwing his hand forward toward the rapidly approaching man. A massive explosion of black and white chakra went off directly in front of the approaching man. Gaara narrowed his eyes, wondering if the man survived Naruto-nii's attack.
"Well, well, you have some power I'll admit." Gaara was surprised to see the man reform out of water a couple of feet away from the decently sized crater. Naruto's expression didn't change from the blank look he'd had since appearing, having already seen the man shift into water as the explosion happened with his Byakugan.
"Naruto-kun, you need to get this man away or escape with Kokuō." Kaguya's voice resounded in Naruto's mind, he sent back a mental nod.
The soaking wet masked man decided not to wait around anymore. Firing off several large balls of water towards the boys, ' Let's try intimidation then.' Naruto thought grimly.
The next moment massive amounts of plants, towering trees, and roots burst out of the ground, slicing and exploding the globes of water with relative ease before sliding in and out of the field toward the shinobi. Naruto noticed his Kirigakure headband, observing the cut through it.
The man's purple eyes widened, seeing the massive literal forest growing toward him. He called upon all his remaining energy as he was already very exhausted from the long battle with the Bijuu.
He dodged out of the way of the vines, then quickly dissolved into water as a spike of sand attempted to impale him. The man scowled, feeling his already very depleted chakra reserves from battling the Gobi for so long.
Naruto reached out his other hand toward the man in the blue clothes, having failed intimidation he was going to do his best to kill the man attacking the Gobi. Naruto reached out for the man's chakra, feeling it much weaker than his own.
The man's eyes widened as he felt a grip around his chakra, jumping back immediately he dissolved into water before disappearing into the ground. Naruto lost his grip on the man's chakra pool as it separated into thousands of droplets when he dissolved.
"Hmm…" was all Naruto said as he turned to the Gobi, but watching the man filter through the dirt away from them through the back of his head. Gaara turned away from the destruction they had caused a moment later, his face back into his emotionless expression.
"Are you okay Kokuō-san?" Naruto asked, getting a shaky nod from the weakened Gobi, Naruto's pale eyes met the Gobi's blue-red ringed eyes and "Hello Naruto-sama," Came the calm male voice of Kokuō inside Naruto's head.
Gaara watched as the horse sized Gobi and Naruto had a mental conversation, both their eyes glazing over familiarly. Gaara patiently waited until they were finished. A few minutes later Naruto gained a frown before his eyes regained his focus.
Naruto turned to Gaara, "The Gobi is going to travel with us for now until he regains his power; apparently the Bijuu can naturally be at this size as well." Gaara simply nodded, absorbing the information and filing it away.
Naruto suddenly turned and stared out into the forest, Gaara could distinctly hear him mutter "Dang it I wasn't looking… again!"
"Gaara we are surrounded." There was a pause as he narrowed his eyes, "All of them are rain ninja, don't attack." Gaara only nodded, his sand swirling around him protectively.
"State your name and your purpose for being here, you are trespassing in rain territory." Gaara's eyes moved to the source of the voice, a ninja garbed in grey pants with a purple shirt, on top of that he wore a grey flak jacket and an Amegakure headband was on the back haired man's forehead.
"Let us go, and you can all live," Gaara replied, his voice empty and emotionless.
"Who does the brat think he is huh?" One of the Ame Shinobi on a nearby tree yelled, getting a round of laughter from the 30 or so Ame shinobi surrounding them.
"You will come with us to the Amekage, and he will decide what to do with you." The first shinobi ordered, eyeing them carefully.
"Oh, can we just get a break!" Naruto groaned, pulling the shinobi's attention to him, some ignorant shinobi gasping at his strange alien appearance. Naruto tilted his head toward his friend, establishing a connection with him.
'Do we go with them?' Gaara heard Naruto's voice within his mind, 'Is there backup coming?' Was the redhead's reply. Naruto turned his pale eyes toward the direction the shinobi came from, his vision expanding dramatically. 'Yes, a lot more, the barrier must have dropped at some point in Kokuō's battle with the blue man.'
'Then we go with them, we might be able to defeat them all, but trying to move the wounded 5 tails with us and escape is too much.' Was Gaara's analytic response, Naruto nodded in agreement to his friend's analysis of the situation.
"There is no need for fighting, we will come peacefully to your kage," Naruto called out, the Ame shinobi all dropping to the ground around them one by one. Naruto, Gaara, and the much smaller Gobi began walking toward the Village Hidden in The Rain, Naruto chuckled to himself at the comedy of their situation.
Before long they were joined by roughly another 50 Ame shinobi who joined their comrades in surrounding them. Naruto walked beside the somewhat limping Gobi, stroking the horse's horns in a calming manner, Kokuō nuzzled his head farther into his uncle's hand happily.
Amekage's office
The office of the Amekage was actually quite impressive, an elegant metal desk sat across the room from the sliding metal doors of his office. Along the walls were many works of art and he had two luxurious purple couches around the room, the office was themed in dark red and purple it seemed. Behind the Amekage was a wrap around wall of glass that could be blacked out with chakra. The ever falling rain of Amegakure beat against the window constantly, providing a soothing white noise to the room.
The Amekage was currently turned in his chair toward the window, watching blankly as the rain fell down the glass, his mind elsewhere. 'I wonder what that pulse of chakra was, it felt very similar to… hmm.' The Amekage sighed, glad that he had sent backup too the first 30 shinobi he had sent out in response to the chakra source in his borders.
The robed kage turned as he sensed another person enter the room via shunshin.
"Lord Amekage, Sir!" The grey-haired Jounin saluted the violet-eyed man in kage robes sitting behind his desk.
"Yes? Report Wizohso." The Amekage said sternly, getting a nod from his subordinate.
"The shinobi you sent to the sight of the detected chakra pulse have returned, sir! No casualties and they brought two children… And sir, the 5-tail, Sir. In a smaller size…" The Amekage's eyes widened at the report, but he sensed that was not all.
"Continue."
The Jounin stiffened, "One of the two children is very strange," The Jounin shuddered slightly, causing his leader to raise an eyebrow. "He has two horns, white hair, and trimmed eyebrows, and sir he has no pupils, his eyes are entirely pale." The Jounin finished his report.
The Amekage steepled his fingers together, thinking. "Wizohso-san, bring them in."
"Hai, sir!" The jounin disappeared in a burst of smoke.
The Amekage turned to the one other occupant in the room, a 6-year-old red headed child with violet eyes like his own.
"Nakada-kun, I'm going to have to ask you to leave my office for right now." The Amekage said kindly, getting a whine from the red-headed boy standing by his desk.
"Do I have to Nagato-sensei?" The boy whined playfully, causing Nagato to chuckle, "Well, you can stay but it could be dangerous, if something goes bad you are to leave by the secret exit immediately and go to Konan-chan, do you understand?" Nagato said sternly, getting a firm nod from his cousin. Nagato understood Nakada's want to meet these people, and apart of him just couldn't help granting Nakada's desires when he could.
A jounin appeared a moment later in a swirl of water, "Lord Amekage, you will have to come outside to meet them. The two children refuse to enter your office without the Gobi, and the Gobi is too large to enter the building, sir!" You could clearly hear the Jounin's slight amusement at delivering such an odd report.
"Understood, we are coming," Nagato replied, standing he began walking toward the doors to his office, followed closely by Nakada.
A couple of minutes later Nakada and his cousin entered into one of the biggest holding cells within the village. The village had put a lot of effort into industrialization, and therefore everything was made of metal.
Nagato chuckled as he heard Nakada complain for the millionth time about the rain. They turned a corner, and Nagato quickly took in the strange sight before him. In the middle of the large room lay the Gobi, it's five tails wrapped protectively around two children that were close to the age of Nakada. One was as his Jounin had described, the horned boy's pale eyes immediately connecting with his own upon his entrance.
Nagato was intrigued by the strange youth wearing a white kimono and green sash. His vision shifted to the other boy, a redhead with the kanji for love tattooed on his forehead, the boy wore clothes that reminded him of Suna, and the large sand gourd he carried on his back confirmed his suspicions. Surrounding the strange intruders were around 70 of his shinobi.
Nagato moved inside of the perimeter his men had established, gesturing for Nakada to stay back.
"What are you doing in the Land of Rain?" Nagato's first impulse was that these were only children, but he had learned before that even children could be deadly opponents if underestimated, and the feeling he got from the pale boy only reinforced this belief.
"We were not staying, only passing through." The pale boy responded, Nagato turned to him and saw his eyes looking past him, following his eyesight he found it rested on his cousin, he moved protectively between him and Nakada.
"Hello Kyuubi," Nagato faltered, immediately glancing toward his cousin and seeing him confused over the boy's greeting. 'I need to explain that to him right after this.' Nagato thought.
The pale-eyed boy's eyes shifted back to him. He got the distinct impression the boy was looking through him at Nakada, 'Byakugan? He's from Konoha?'
"Allow me to introduce myself, I am Shiroi Oni, my friend here is Sandman and I assume you already know that this is the Gobi." Naruto gestured to the large horse Bijuu behind him, who only continued to stare at everyone in the room carefully.
"Nice to meet you... I am Uzumaki Nagato, the Amekage of the Rain Village." Nagato replied cautiously, his senses more focused on the two boys. He found them to have massive chakra reserves, the redhead had to contain a Bijuu to have that much, and the Shiroi Oni's chakra was utterly astounding. 'His chakra is so thick, potent...'
"Now that we have that out of the way," The one who introduced himself as Shiroi turned again toward Nakada, who had moved to be able to see the strange trio in the middle of the room.
"What do you want?" Nagato pulled the pupil-less boy's attention back to him, he was deeply unsettled by the strange kid's fascination with his cousin.
"I would like to talk to the holder of the Kyuubi," Naruto replied evenly, Gaara stood to the side with his hands crossed, letting his brother handle this as he saw fit. Kokuō just watched, keeping an eye on as many shinobi as possible. He didn't like being in a small space, but he trusted his uncle.
"Why would you want to do that?" Nagato asked suspiciously.
"Well, you see. I am collecting all the Bijuu as is my right." Naruto replied, turning entirely back to the man in front of him.
"And how do you think you are going to manage that?" Nagato asked, genuinely curious and in slight disbelief, 'Though he has seemed to have tamed the Gobi.'
"Don't let my size fool you Amekage, there is a good reason for why I am searching for them. There isn't much that anyone can do to stop me from achieving my goal anyway. In the coming years, I will find all the Bijuu." Naruto declared.
Nagato stared uncertainty at the young boy as he turned to Nakada once more, Nagato watched as his eyes glazed over for a couple of moments before refocusing, the one with the gourd had yet to move or visibly react since they entered the room.
"Hmm, it seems the Kyuubi is not yet awake." Naruto extended his hand toward Nakada who looked unsettled and bewildered. Nagato tensed, preparing for an attack of some kind.
"Come with us, we are creating a place for those that are scorned, hated, despised. A place where they can live in safety, love, and with those that are like them. A place where there is no judgment, no condemnation," Naruto stated. Nagato watched in horror as Nakada looked enticed by the offer.
"No! Nakada will stay here with me where he belongs! He will not go with you, and you aren't going anywhere! It's not often that a tailed beast waltzes into my village, I'll be taking it off your hands." Nagato growled, his brotherly instincts kicking in as he leaped between the strange pale child and his cousin. 'I will not let anyone take Nakada from me!' With that thought purple chains burst from his back, floating around him menacingly. Taking that as a signal all the Ame shinobi drew weapons and prepared to subdue the children, they could all feel the power the white-haired child emitted, and he was not to be taken lightly. They also had confidence in their leader to subdue the Bijuu, which would flatten their village otherwise.
"Nii-san, it seems that we've overstayed our welcome, let's go." Nagato watched in as sand burst violently from the red head's gourd before flying across the ground toward the wall opposite from him, forcing his shinobi to leap out of the way or be caught.
The white-haired boy nodded before quickly extending his hand toward the now vacant wall. "Ōkina bakuhatsu!" The wall exploded violently a second later in black and white smoke. Like an exploding tag had been activated on the wall. The chunks of wall flew across the room, a dust smoke screen rising up. Nagato was about to leap forward and attack when he heard a moan.
Turning quickly, he realized that Nakada had been nailed in the head with a large piece of stone and was bleeding profusely.
"Go, get them!" Nagato yelled distractedly, trying to stop the extreme bleeding coming from Nakada's head. Now regretting suppressing the Kyuubi as he had been working on Nakada's seal and making it where Naruto could actually speak to the Bijuu, he'd apparently messed something up with his first seal. Nagato planned to reveal to Nakada that he contained the Kyuubi in a few days and then enter his mindscape with him to meet the fox, though he would have to explain it sooner now.
In the raining streets of Amegakure, 3 bodies landed lightly on the ground, "My sand is not going to be very effective here," Gaara growled disappointedly, his one weakness by far was water, and it covered everything here.
"Looks like it's going to be a lot harder to get out of here than I thought. My explosion has alerted the two other powerful chakra signatures as I mentioned earlier, both are on their way. We need to move." Naruto replied sternly, both Gaara and the Gobi nodded, but before they moved they found themselves surrounded.
Plants burst from the ground and swatted a shuriken aside that was flying toward Naruto, Naruto turned and glared at the rain shinobi now surrounding them. His 360 degrees of vision saw Gaara besides him, a wall of wet sand erected in front of him, kunai and shuriken embedded in it. Behind him, he saw the Gobi snarling at the shinobi surrounding him, his tails moving around quickly, but still not as strong as they normally would be.
Naruto quickly observed the 80ish shinobi surrounding him, trying to come up with a solution to their predicament before the two rapidly approaching signatures appeared. He was surprised that the Amekage didn't follow them but was glad that he did not.
Kaguya watched from within the mindscape, she hadn't offered advice on what to do when the Ame shinobi first appeared, letting Naruto make his own choices and learn from them. But her musuko was in a pickle now, "Naruto-kun, you know how you can feel their chakra pools? Try to feel them all and latch on to them." Naruto's eyes widened at his mother's order, 'But mother, I can't possibly wrestle away nearly 80 ninja's chakra at one time.' Naruto replied in confusion, the situation outside at a standstill.
"No, I want you to try something different, imagine your chakra physically connecting to them, then channel your father's senchakra into all their chakra pools, it should kill them all if you pour enough senchakra into it," Kaguya explained, Naruto nodded, feeling his fathers approval of the plan and his father's unique energy filling his being.
Naruto raised his fist above his head, gaining the attention of everyone present. Channeling chakra to his hand, he directed almost 80 strings of chakra to fly through the air near instantly and latch themselves to the shinobi's chests. Before any could react or attempt to detach themselves from his chakra strings, he channeled his father's senchakra through the links.
"Kaminoki: Uchinaru jiko no hakai (God Tree: Destruction of the Inner Self)!" Naruto called out, a split second later the air was filled with screams of horrific pain before they were brutally silence, their bodies deteriorating into the air. Civilians farther down the streets witnessed something that they had never seen before… red rain, the blood vaporized forms of the nearly 80 shinobi mixing with the ever falling rain of the village and raining down on the walls and street, covering it in blood.
Only one Shinobi managed to survive, being exceptionally talented in suppressing his chakra Naruto's technique had been unable to latch on too him. The dark brown haired chunin stared at Naruto's pale horned face, his own face entirely white in shock and horror, his body shaking with terror.
Naruto's pale eyes turned and entirely focused on the sole survivor of his massacre, making said man back up a couple of steps subconsciously.
"Tell everyone what you saw here… A young boy who made the sky rain red. Remember my name; I am the master of chakra, the second coming of the Kaminoki, the Shiroi Oni." Naruto turned as he was nuzzled by the Gobi, his eyes connecting with the large horse like Bijuu's.
"I've got enough energy to carry you and your friend out of here." Naruto nodded, 'Thank you, after that, we will find a place for you to rest and regain your strength.' The Gobi crouched down so that Naruto could climb onto his back.
"Get on Gaara," Naruto said, helping the red-headed boy up and seating him behind him. "Hold on using Chakra Naruto-sama!" Naruto heard in his mind, only having enough time to communicate the advice to his friend before the Gobi shot off down the streets in a speed blur. The sole survivor of the Massacre that would later be named collapsed to the ground in relief, his mind overloading in shock from the death of so many of his comrades. 'So effortlessly, so easily, He killed them all like flies.' The Chunin's thoughts became more and more fearful before he fainted on the ground. A moment later a man with orange hair materialized out of the water nearby.
Hours later
The survivor of the Shiro Oni's massacre woke up with a scream and frantically looked around the chamber, his nightmare filled sleep coming back to haunt him and making him think the boy with the pupil-less pale eyes was in the room with him. The chunin shuddered in fear, the pale horned face of the emotionless boy appearing before him. 'He can't be human! H-he can't... no please...'
A moment later the door to the room burst open, people in medic uniforms walking quickly to the hyperventilating patient's bedside. They did their best to calm the traumatized teen down but failing miserably. A moment later they injected him with a calming drug, knowing that Amekage-sama was coming and would want answers and he needed to be in a fit state to answer.
The man calmed down slowly, his breathing returning to normal but his eyes still containing that look of horror within them. Again the door to the room burst open, revealing an irked Amekage, his robes fluttering behind him as he walked quickly to the Chunin.
"Ahh, the survivor has finally awoken. Now I can finally get some answers." Nagato muttered toward the end to himself, his mind still processing the entire ordeal. He had just come from Nakada's hospital bed, the doctors telling him that Nakada would have a concussion and be out of it for several days.
The Chunin began shaking violently again, the medic's trying to hold him down and inject him with more calming medicine.
"What the hell is wrong with you Siko?" Nagato asked, trying to keep his anger and stress out of his voice, "What the hell happened?" The traumatized teen chunin's memory replayed the boy's last words.
"Th-that b-b-boy. H-he ki-killed everyone. Th-there w-was n-nothing left of them… just red." Siko said shakily, stammering through his words, his eyes unfocused.
"How the hell is that possible! Who the hell was that boy?" Nagato nearly shouted, 'I'm saying that word a lot again…' Nagato had found that when he was particularly stressed, he favored the word 'hell' consistently, though that didn't matter at the moment.
"H-he s-said th-that his n-name was the Shiro Oni. H-he stuck h-his h-hand up in th-the air and strands of ch-chakra attached themselves to everyone, a s-second later they we-were gone, nothing left except for red…" The Chunin had the distinct look of reliving the entire memory, Nagato slapped his cheek, bringing him back to the present.
Siko gulped, trying to get himself under control, "After that, they both got on top of the Gobi, the next second they vanished." He got out, determined to at least finish his report. He could feel the darkness creeping up on him, the need to slip into the warm embrace of unconsciousness was overwhelming.
"Did he say where he was going?" Nagato pressed.
"N-no Amekage… sama." The mental trauma was too much for the teen shinobi, and he passed out on the hospital bed once more. Nagato stared thoughtfully at nothing for several moments.
"Take care of him, when he wakes up send him for mental therapy, the poor boy is going to need it," Nagato ordered before turning and walking briskly out of the room, heading toward his office. 'Whoever you are... You will not be taking my cousin away from me!'
oOoOoOo
Kage's of a hidden village rarely leave their domain, since they were the most powerful shinobi it often left a large opening in the defenses of the village that enemies could exploit. The only situations where it was not frowned upon was when the Chunin exams were being hosted in a different hidden village, alliance talks and diplomatic missions.
Sarutobi Hiruzen didn't care about the formalities at the moment. When the request for a talk about trades and changing some things in their alliance had come from the Kazekage of Suna he had immediately set out as soon as possible. Wanting to get away from the village.
The situation in the village was… disastrous. The news that Nakada had left the village, and the subsequent information about his parents and that he was the Kyuubi jinchuriki had shocked Konoha to its core. Many villager and shinobi realizing their mistake. The village was part outraged, and in mourning, no one quite sure how to feel and turned their rampant emotions upon the Hokage, which he deserved, but that's beside the point.
Sarutobi had just reached the edge of the Suna village, surrounded on all sides by his 8 ANBU personal guard. Sarutobi noticed the distinct lack of sufficient guards at the gate as a Chunin approached them.
"Welcome to Sunagakure, Hokage-dono." The Suna Chunin bowed before leading them into the village and toward the Kazekage Tower, "Lord Kazekage is expecting you inside." The Chunin gestured toward the doorway and moved out of the way. Sarutobi motioned for his ANBU to wait outside the Kazekage's office before walking inside.
"Ahh, greetings Hokage-dono, thank you for accepting my invitation on such short notice." The Kazekage gave a slight bow of his head.
"Thank you for your kind invitation Kazekage-dono, I had time free, so I felt that coming as soon as possible would be best," Sarutobi replied, sitting in the red chair in front of the Kazekage's desk.
Sarutobi and Rasa talked for around an hour about the new trade routes between the villages and slight changes in their treaty between the two neighboring lands.
As the conversation came to a comfortable lull, Sarutobi decided to ask something that had been bothering him.
"Pray tell, where most of your shinobi are? I saw as I walked through the village that there was hardly any high-level ninja present, mostly Chunin and Genin." Sarutobi asked in an off-handed way, not wanting to come across as digging for information. The Kazekage waved his hand, sighing heavily.
"They're dead, around 30 of my more higher ranking shinobi were all killed a couple of weeks ago." Rasa sighed, Sarutobi's eyebrow raised in interested at who could kill off that many shinobi.
Sarutobi was somewhat put off when Rasa didn't continue on, but understanding that this was possibly a confidential matter he changed the subject.
With Naruto
3 days later
Naruto sat cross-legged against a tree as he continued to practice his unique abilities with his bloodline. He was trying a new branch of the Shinobi arts, but with his own spin on it, Genjutsu. The difference between his Genjutsu and others was that he genuinely manipulated the chakra directly into someone's senses, while this had a range of benefits, it has it's downsides as well.
Naruto didn't actually know any Genjutsu's, which meant he had no sort of preset illusion to work with, having to start entirely from scratch and concentrate on manipulating the chakra. This made his illusions much harder to break, but he could lose concentration and drop the Genjutsu prematurely.
Naruto's eyes were also different as he stared at his chakra flowing lazily through the air around him, instead of his usual pale, pupil-less orbs. He had two three tomoe Sharingan watching the chakra flow, which helped him to control the chakra easier.
After their escape from Amegakure, the Gobi had run quite far, traveling the remaining distance between Amegakure and the border with the Land of Grass. The Gobi had collapsed afterward in complete exhaustion, and they'd set up camp.
Naruto with the help of his father had constructed a large dome of vines and trees. Three trees were in a triangle and leaned together, their branches interlocking and creating support for the vines to latch on. Within the dome there were sizeable fluorescent flower bulbs that lit up the interior, he'd made the grass much softer inside the dome. They'd then helped the Kokuō inside, and the Bijuu promptly fell asleep on the soft grass.
Since then the horse like Bijuu had woken up a couple of times but mostly slept. Naruto and Gaara had agreed to stay here for a month or so before continuing on toward Cloud village. Much had happened in their travels thus far, and Naruto had relied on his parents to get him out of sticky situations multiple times. Both Gaara and Naruto felt the need to get stronger in their personal skills.
Naruto sighed and released his control over his chakra, absorbing it back into his body. Staring out over the clearing he saw Gaara once again working on his third eye jutsu. Sitting near the smoldering smoking remains of their fire from last night. They had both woken up early in the morning and begun training.
"Gaara, I'm going to go to that nearby village I saw and buy more food, we are getting low on provisions," Naruto said, obtaining a nod from his red-haired companion who had two fingers covering one eye, Naruto was amused to watch the eyeball of sand above the boy turn to him and whirl around.
Naruto walked into the plant hut like dome, seeing the Gobi once again sleeping soundly in the corner of the room. Naruto smiled, glad to have been able to help Kokuō, the horse hadn't decided if he wanted to continue traveling with them, but he hadn't been awake very much lately to think about it either.
Naruto walked over to where their large scroll sat in the grass that covered the floor of the dome, placing his hand on the seal he summoned their bag of money in a puff of smoke, a moment later the bag disappeared into his hand.
Naruto quickly left the dome, Gaara giving him a nod as he 'blew' away into a black and white smoke in the silent wind that filtered through the trees farther into the Land of Grass.
Naruto skimmed swiftly across the ground, finding the main road a couple of minutes later. As he continued toward the village he ran into small assemblies of civilians, and even a Kumo team made up of a Jounin, and three genins, one of them had a lollipop in his mouth.
Naruto reared farther into the air above the main road as he entered the quaint village, spotting a shop he coasted his smoky form within a nearby alleyway before reforming from the smoke in the darkness of the alley.
Naruto was about to walk out into the street before he paused. He began to mold his chakra to his will with relative ease and slowly a large white baggy hood formed from the collar of his Kimono, it built up the back of his head before coming over and covering his horns, next a white face mask that came up to his nose crawled up his face.
Satisfied with his 'disguise' Naruto walked out into the street and into the shop to buy supplies. When Naruto exited the last store he wished to enter he had several things sealed back within his arm, mostly food, but he'd also bought a few more sealing scrolls in case Gaara wanted some of his own, a detailed road map of the Land of Grass that travelers often used and a new bingo book.
"Naruto-kun, have you thought about how your village will be run? Where it will be?" Kaguya's voice asked in his head, Naruto was pleasantly surprised by his mother's sudden voice, she often didn't speak unless spoken to, silently watching over him.
'I have, I've decided that some of the techniques I have with this bloodline will become common knowledge to my shinobi. I'm still thinking about where to put my village, my hope is I find a place on these travels.' Was Naruto's reply, Kaguya was about to respond when Naruto heard something that drew both their attention away.
"Freak! Get out of here! Why do you keep coming back? No one likes you!" A boys voice yelled not far from Naruto, his interested peaked Naruto activated his eyes with a pulse of chakra. His vision flying through the streets of the village, a moment later he found a group of boys, in front of the kids was a girl about 4 years old crying.
Naruto's anger spiked, dissolving into a black and white mist in the middle of the street faster than he ever had before and drawing gasps from the civilians around him he flew through the crowds, sliding between people with ease in his smoky state.
Not a moment later Naruto reformed from the smoke behind the group of 3 boys that were bullying a small girl.
"What's going on here?" Naruto's voice held a dangerous tone, all 3 boys turned toward him, feeling his angry aura and Naruto's now red 3 tomoe Sharingan spinning menacingly. None of the boys replied, fearful of the boy that had magically appeared in the white robes.
Not getting an answer Naruto walked right past them all and knelt beside the sobbing girl, she had light blue hair with a simple garb which was frayed around the edges.
"Are you alright?" Naruto questioned kindly, putting his hand on her back and trying to comfort her. The girl's head hung low, Naruto couldn't see her face, but he could hear her calming down slightly, he heard her sniff, but she didn't respond.
Angry at the boys for bullying someone defenseless, something he was against. He turned and glared with his spinning Sharingan at the 3 boys. "Scram!" Naruto snarled out, only one backed up slowly before turning tail and running away quickly, Naruto's keen eyes saw the two remaining boys faces go pale.
"Someone mind telling me why you were picking on this girl?" Naruto asked, his voice transmitting his message clear, 'answer incorrectly and you will regret it.' One of the boys gulped loudly before responding, his eyes unable to leave the glowing red ones from the darkness inside the scary boys white hood.
"She… She… wears stupid clothes, and she hasn't got any eyes!" He said, immediately knowing the robed in white newcomer was not happy.
"Genjutsu: Sharingan!" Naruto said calmly andthe vision of the two boy's became black. A pair of red eyes filled their view, they were afraid… so so very afraid of the eyes, the eyes that held death and destruction. The next moment their vision returned, they turned tail and running both boys disappeared around the corner of the street seconds later.
"Hey, it's okay now, they're gone now." Naruto tried to comfort the crying girl, giving her a small hug without being too assuming Naruto rubbed her back as she calmed down. Naruto directed his arm behind them, concentrating he formed chakra into an uncomplicated grey bench, he lifted the girl to her feet before sitting down on the new seat with her.
Naruto sat there for a few minutes with the girl, he honestly felt he needed to stay and talk to her, help her back home possibly if she wished.
"Thank you, mister," The girl finally spoke, sniffing a few times and rubbing her eyes from the tears.
"You're welcome, I've been bullied before, so I know how it feels. What's your name, mine is Naruto." Naruto replied, the girl turned and took in Naruto's masked face, obscured by the white material of his hood and face mask. Naruto was able to see her face, the first thing his now pale eyes taking in were her eyes, they were completely blank. Not like the Byakugan which had an iris just no pupil, her's were entirely white, bare, and silver tinted. Naruto rose a clipped eyebrow at what he was seeing.
"My name is Rei," Naruto nodded, smiling behind his mask. Somehow Rei must have seen or sensed his smile because she smiled back at him.
"Rei is a nice name," Naruto commented, getting an enthusiastic nod of agreement from the small girl.
"Rei, why were those kids picking on you? Was it because of your eyes?" Naruto inquired, wondering what her side of things was like, he saw her stiffen, having backed up respectfully when she stopped crying.
"I'm not going to hurt you Rei if that's what's scaring you," Naruto reassured the blue haired girl, she visibly relaxed.
"Yes… people seem to want to stay away from me and my grandmother, my eyes are different than everyone else's, my grandmother knows why but she won't tell me." Rei said sadly, trailing off to a whisper at the end but Naruto still heard her.
"Naruto-kun, she has the Clear Eye, a Kekkei Genkai I 'invented' as a counter to the Byakugan and Sharingan, I'll tell you more about it later, you should offer to take her home," Kaguya said, getting a mental nod and thanks from her son.
"Come on, I'll take you home Rei-san. Where do you live?" Rei seemed to look through the darkness obscuring his face for a couple of moments before coming to a decision.
"I'm not allowed to show people the way to where I live, but I feel like I can trust you." Rei seemed to nod to herself before hopping off the seat, Naruto smiled, following after her. The bench dissolved into chakra and reabsorbed into Naruto.
He sped up, walking beside the younger girl, he was surprised when she grabbed his pale hand and led him through the streets and alleyways of the village. Before long they came to a narrow alley, a door that seemed to be so old it was rotting and looked ready to crumble at the slightest hint of pressure.
'Reminds me of the places I used to live in Suna before I met Gaara.' Naruto mused, he directed his Byakugan through the wall, he was surprised to see that he could only see a set of stairs to another floor underground before being unable to look beyond the door.
"Naruto?" Rei asked, having opened the doorway and stepped through, she looked at him curiously.
"Sorry, was thinking," Naruto replied, getting a nod from the blue-haired girl before following her down the stairs, as she pulled out a small knife.
"Obaa-san doesn't trust people, and even old she is very strong, but she has to lay down all the time." Rei seemed to almost be warning him, making Naruto slightly wary.
"Those who have no choice in doing something can work to find a way to adapt to their situation," Naruto quietly said, more to himself than anyone else. Rei nodded and cut her finger, Naruto watched as she put some of her blood on the door, an elaborate seal that Naruto couldn't even begin to understand appeared and glowed before fading, the door popped open. Rei put the blade away and pushed open the door.
"Obaa-san is really good with written seals; I think she said that she was a seal master, she said she learned from someone named… Do.. Dok… I forgot." Rei gave up and continued into the house.
Naruto's vision quickly took in all the visible rooms, which was a living room and the kitchen, the other rooms having doors on them and he couldn't see through the walls, 'I'm guessing seals are doing that then.'
Naruto observed that the room was reasonably well lit, the ceiling actually just being a spot of light. 'Also some sort of seal?' The visible rooms look well kept, but they lacked really any sort of decorations, making it very dull.
Rei began walking toward a closed door, "My family and I snuck into Grass country when I was only a few months old. Obaa-san says that they died trying to protect me and Obaa-san when we fled." Rei explained as she reached for the door. The next moment several things happened.
The door suddenly was pulled open from the inside, Naruto's activated Dōjutsu was suddenly able to see inside and he could make out a bedroom almost as sparse as the rest of the place, at the door was a old lady with shoulder-length grey hair, a simple white kimono, her eyes the same as Rei's.
"Katon: Fenikkusu fumetsu no hi (Phoenix Immortal Fire)!" The lady yelled her hands together in the snake seal. Naruto realized as many balls of fire shot across the room toward him that she'd started the jutsu before opening the door, Naruto eyed the fireballs coming. Knowing that he could allow the plants to block the attack, he decided not too, instead switching into his mist form near instantly right before the fire connected with him. The fireballs going through the black and white mist that now covered the place he had been standing.
Rei let out a glass-shattering shriek and stared in horror at where Naruto had just been seconds ago. Rei turned quickly toward her Obaa-san to see her leaning against the door frame for support as she breathed heavily.
Rei was about to scream at her grandmother before she was beaten to it. "Rei, why in Kami's name did you bring that person down here? You know how… much… danger…" Rei's grandmother scolded her granddaughter, but she stopped as she saw the black and white smoke that had appeared begin to reform into the masked boy that had been standing there beforehand.
"Hmm…" Naruto rolled his neck, forcing a transformation that fast into smoke was not a comfortable nor painless thing. "For a grandmother, you are pretty strong," Naruto complimented, popping his neck but not actually looking at either of them, though there was no need for him to, he could see them anyway.
"N-Naruto?" Rei asked in disbelief and happiness, her eyes moist from the fresh tears she had just been crying.
Naruto nodded, "Do you always attack everyone who isn't your family?" Naruto asked, slightly enjoying the look of disbelief and shock on the grandmother's face, Naruto noticed with his all-seeing eyes a vast amount of paper, ink, and quills stacked in the room behind the old lady.
Naruto sighed, turning to leave he began walking toward the door through which he had entered.
"Naruto?! Where are you going?" Rei asked, making Naruto pause and turn to her for the sake of manners, again not needing to turn to see her.
"Your Obaa-san doesn't want me here Rei, and I understand that besides I need to get back to my nii-san. Have a good day Rei-san, Obaa-san." Naruto said, walking forward again before turning once more to Rei. "Oh and if those kids come and bully you again… just tell them they'll get a visit from me. Perhaps we will see each other again one day, bye!" With that Naruto opened the door and dissolved into his smoke form before 'blowing' out of sight and through the cracks in the top door.
Rei watched with wide blank eyes until the smoke had disappeared, it was amazing to watch Naruto dissolve from the top of his head to his feet into white and black smoke. Rei's mind finally caught up, and she began to cry.
"W-what did he mean by 'those kids that bullied you' Rei?" Rei's grandmother asked, Rei turned and spent the next few moments telling her mother about how she had met Naruto through her tears.
"He did that? I need to apologize to the boy... Right now I think you need to go find your friend." She didn't need to say anything more, Rei shot to her feet and raced out the door and up the stairs the second she had her Obaa-san's approval to find her new and first friend.
The old grandmother sighed, she had attacked the first person her granddaughter had ever made friends with out of suspicion and fear. She needed to apologize… 'And something about that kid, his aura was powerful.'
Village in the Land of Grass
Naruto had quickly left the basement like area that Rei lived in, flying up into the sky he remembered that he wanted to get some scrolls about ninja arts. Recalling that he had seen some in one of the weapons stores, he glided through the air as a formless cloud of black and white smoke before reforming in front of the shop. Once again drawing gasps from the civilians around him.
Naruto sighed, Rei wasn't kidding. Not only was her grandmother not very trusting but she was quite hostile in fact. He couldn't blame her though, he understood the value in not trusting, he didn't trust anyone when he grew up alone in Suna.
Naruto walked inside and was surprised to see a shinobi also in the shop, she had long spiky red hair and amber eyes, Naruto also saw her dark skin which some people in Suna had from tanning too much.
Naruto noticed that the girl was staring at him suspiciously, 'She probably saw me form outside.' Not bothered by her stare Naruto found the scrolls he was looking for, basic ones on how to walk on walls and water with chakra. Paying for the manuscripts, Naruto left the building, entirely ignoring the redhead that was staring at him.
"Naruto!" Naruto had just stepped outside the building when he heard a familiar voice yell his name, turning he saw Rei with his Byakugan weaving through the crowd toward him. He patiently waited until she made it to him.
"Please… *pant* wait… Obaa-san want's you to come back so she can apologize… *pant* Please don't leave." Rei asked, her eyes going wide and begging, which was slightly weird since she didn't have iris's or pupils to speak of.
'I don't have to go back to Gaara till later today,' Naruto mused, wondering why the Rei's grandmother would change her mind, and not minding spending time with the girl he allowed her to lead him back through the village to the door he had left not long ago.
Before long they were back inside the sparse living room of Rei and her grandmother's home, Naruto walked in and gave a slight bow to the old lady as a sign of non-hostility, who was lounging on the couch in the living room.
"Hello, Naruto-san, my deepest apologies for attacking you. As I heard Rei explain, we've been on the run and hiding for some time." The lady explained.
"It's fine, I understand your suspicions, I grew up in a similar life in my home village," Naruto replied respectfully, the grandmother gestured to sit and he did so.
"Allow us to start over? My name is Shoiha Kazumi, I am a seal master, or rather mistress. Rei already explained the gist of our history." Kazumi started, Naruto nodded.
"My name is Naruto Ōtsutsuki, 3rd son of Kaguya Õtsutsuki and possess a bloodline unique to me, among others," Naruto replied, phrasing his introduction similar to the Kazumi's.
Kazumi raised an eyebrow at his last comment, "If you don't mind, may I ask why you wear a hood and mask?"
Naruto shook his head, showing that it didn't bother him. "If you promise not to freak out then I have no issue with taking it off." Kazumi nodded, and Rei nodded excitedly as well.
Naruto lifted his hands up, slipping the hood up over his horns and off, as well as sliding the equally white face mask down around his neck. Kazumi and Rei took in the strange boys features, his horns and pale skin, white hair and pale eyes.
"Ne ne, are your eyes like mine Naruto-san?" Rei asked curiously, while the horns were different, she wasn't really bothered by them and was more interested in his eyes that were similar to hers.
"Rei, that is called the Byakugan, it's one of the three great Dōjutsu of the world," Kazumi explained to her granddaughter, Naruto nodded in confirmation of what she said.
"And you have the Clear Eye, a Dōjutsu that is nearly extinct and evolved of another." Naruto returned, showing that he too knew about their bloodline.
Kazumi agreed, impressed. "You said that you had a bloodline unique to you? Isn't the Byakugan a Hyūga clan bloodline?" She inquired in interest.
"While that is true, I actually have multiple bloodlines, and the Hyūga inherited Byakugan from my clan, the Ōtsutsuki clan," Naruto replied, the next moment he held his hand out and a kunai formed within his hand from particles of chakra.
Kazumi and Rei watched in amazement as he twirled the now fully formed kunai around his hand before tossing it up in the air and it dissolved back into oblivion.
"That is just one of the abilities of my bloodline, the smoke you saw earlier is also a part of my bloodline," Naruto explained, he usually wouldn't be this open with information, but he felt that he could trust Kazumi and Rei. 'They are oppressed, hiding, scorned for being different.'
"Interesting, may I inquire what you are doing in this village? You are obviously not native to the Land of Grass." Naruto nodded at her deduction.
"I have a goal, a dream if you wish. I want to create a village for all of those who are scorned, hated, and despised unjustly. A place where me, my family, and my friends can live." Naruto revealed.
"Where is your family?" Rei asked innocently, quite interested with what Naruto was saying, on top of that she found how he looked was pretty cool."
"Most of my family is long dead, though some of them still live today," Naruto answered vaguely, Kazumi could tell it wasn't a straight answer and changed the subject.
"How do you plan to create this village?" Kazumi could honestly say that what he wanted to build was very enticing, and with the power she sensed from him, she was willing to believe that when he got older, he could achieve his goals. She couldn't explain it, but something in her motivated her to go with this strange horned boy.
"I am first collecting my scattered family before building my village, I've mostly decided to build it on an island in the Land of Water," Naruto replied, he'd thought about it and going through the memories of the Elemental Nations geography from his father he had decided on a lovely island in the Land of Water.
"Would you be opposed to us coming with you?" Kazumi asked, surprising Naruto and making Rei jump up in down in happiness.
"Please please, please! It's so boring here, and no one likes us." Rei begged, her eyes going wide and begging. 'That just doesn't look right.' Naruto thought as he took in her blank-eyed puppy dog eyes.
He turned back to Kazumi, his face grave. "I am not opposed to that, but you should know the dangers if you are considering it. Since my travels started, I have fought and run from two kages, fought many enemies and killed over 150 shinobi." Naruto's voice was entirely serious, and Kazumi could tell that he wasn't joking, her eyes widening. 'He fought and survived two kages?!'
"I am not a stranger to danger Naruto." Was Kazumi's cool reply, her mind almost entirely made up to go with this boy, regardless of being weaker she could get her strength back if she actually got out and exercised.
"No, I suppose you aren't… If you truly wish to come with me, be packed up tomorrow morning. Right now I need to return to my brother and nephew." Naruto said, turning to Rei.
"I'll see you tomorrow Rei, regardless of whether or not you come with me," Naruto said, extending his arms out in an inviting way. Rei understood and ran over and hugged him tightly.
"Thank you for protecting me against the bullies Naruto," Rei said, backing up and standing near her grandmother.
"I will come tomorrow and explain more about who I am, I know I didn't give you much about me. But thank you for trusting me regardless." Naruto bowed deeply before dissolving into smoke once more, Kazumi and Rei watched in slight awe as the smoke flowed over the couch and toward the door, sliding underneath the crack and disappearing entirely.
Rei watched with wide eyes, "Naruto is so cool!" She murmured, making her grandmother chuckle.
"Well get going then! We have to pack up before he returns." She lightly scolded, knocking Rei out of her funk who proceed to tear across the living room into her room. Kazumi chuckled.
With Naruto
Naruto's smoke form rose into the air, as he traveled at a leisurely pace across the village, watching the villagers go about their business below him he saw the red-headed girl from earlier.
Naruto's 'eyes' narrowed as the girl actually pointed directly toward him in the sky, drawing her teammates attention to the black and white cloud of smoke in the air. Naruto began moving quickly toward the nearby forest as the 3, and their jounin sensei leaped up on the roofs and started following him.
Naruto sped up, only able to go so fast in this form. He filtered through the leaves of the trees to the soft grass below. Not wanting to be held up any longer he shifted into his Helix form, two strands of black and white chakra circling each other. Focusing on where he wanted to go he shot through the forest, weaving through the trees at high speed. A soon as he broke the woods he found the path he had followed here and proceeded to follow it from high above.
After a while Naruto arrived at the place he had been staying with Gaara, alighting on the ground and his body forming between the two rotating strands of chakra before they disappeared.
"Get what you need?" Gaara asked, having prepared ramen and was currently eating a bowl of it at a sedated pace, if there was one thing Gaara and Naruto agreed on, it was that food was meant to be enjoyed, slowly.
"Hai, and more." Naruto unsealed a scroll of food supplies before throwing it at Gaara. Gaara didn't even look up as the scroll impacted with his sand and got stuck, Gaara just gave Naruto a 'really?' look to which Naruto shrugged.
Naruto walked over and sat down on the grass as Gaara took the scroll from his sand and set it on the ground nearby.
"Kokūo woke up, he's still weak but stronger than before. I believe he's hunting at the moment." Gaara said, continuing to eat his ramen. Naruto nodded, taking one of his chakra created bowls and ladling some ramen into it. While Naruto's hands were getting him food his eyes were searching around the forest, he eventually caught a glimpse of a speeding white blur before it disappeared. Naruto decided trying to follow the speed demon of a Bijuu was a lost cause.
"Something interesting happened while I was in the village." Naruto started, getting Gaara's attention, which was him essentially glancing at Naruto before returning to his food.
"I met a girl named Rei, she was being bullied for being different. I scared the bullies off and eventually took her back to her grandmother." Naruto said, pausing as he took another bite of ramen, Gaara didn't comment, knowing there was more to the story.
"Both Rei and her grandmother possess a nearly extinct Dōjutsu called the Clear Eye, a Dōjutsu that my mother invented, it's extremely powerful in creating illusions and genjutsu," Naruto said, getting Gaara to finally actually look like he was listening.
Naruto then began telling Gaara everything that had happened while in the village, eventually ending on how Kazumi and her granddaughter would be traveling with them.
"Won't that slow us down? Besides we have been attacked multiple times since we began traveling, as you said, Kazumi-san is old." Gaara commented in his typical monotone, having finished his bowl.
"I have a solution for that, though you may not like it," Naruto said, wincing slightly at Gaara's utterly dead stare.
"I suggest that you, Kokuō-oikko, Rei, and her grandmother stay here. I will travel on with my Helix form and locate the remaining Bijuu, bringing them back with me if possible." Gaara's expression never changed, but Naruto knew that he was processing over his suggestion from a logical view.
"I agree." Was Gaara's simple response before sand moved across the table, picking up all the used dishes and the pot all at once Gaara began walking toward a stream, all the used cooking ware and bowls being carried by his sand.
"Very well."
END CHAPTER
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