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Chapter six: Kitty and the Turtle
Next day
Rei sat on the couch of the living room, barely containing her excitement. She was currently staring at the doorway to their home, waiting impatiently for Naruto to appear. On the other couch sat her grandmother next to a satchel, inside the bag were several sealing scrolls that held everything that they wanted to bring.
"Uhhhhhhhg, when is Naruto getting here?" Rei groaned, flopping over on the couch dramatically, Kazumi chuckled at her granddaughter's antics.
"I'm sure he will be here soon," Kazumi said, though she wondered if Naruto was okay or if perhaps he had been attacked.
Her concerns were proved unfounded as a black and white smoke filtered into the apartment from under the door, a moment later materializing into Naruto. His keen pale eyes taking in the chamber, and seeing the satchel that Kazumi was carrying, as well as seeing through the bag he realized that they were coming with him.
"Ready to go then?" Naruto asked, happy that he had gained two new friends. Kazumi nodded and stood, while Rei shot up out of her chair and ran to Naruto.
"You've got to tell me how you do that smoke thing! It's so cool!" Naruto smiled at the white-eyed girl's excitement. He wasn't wearing his hood or face mask, and his horns were clearly visible.
"Maybe…" Naruto said teasingly, getting a pout from the girl. Rubbing her head he followed Kazumi out the door, she waited for them both to pass before slapping a piece of paper on the door.
Shooing them up quickly she shut the upper door with a slam, Naruto was slightly confused until he felt the ground shake and heard a muffled explosion. Naruto's Byakugan could now see into what was Rei's home, and it was a mess, collapsing quickly.
"Explosive seals?" Naruto inquired, getting a nod from Kazumi. Naruto noticed then that she limped slightly as she walked away from the door. Seeing a chance to be helpful, Naruto brought chakra outside his hand and concentrated on forming a cane. 3 minutes later he handed the simple light brown walking stick to Kazumi, who took it gratefully.
"While traveling with me, you may find yourself in a tough spot." Naruto winced for a second, "Anyway, that cane can be a sword if you so wish, channeling chakra into it will change the shape into a simple tanto." Naruto explained, Kazumi raised an eyebrow before holding the cane in front of her and channeling chakra into it. True to Naruto's word it changed shape into a simple tanto, the handle the same light brown color.
"Alright, let's go then."
Naruto's temporary camp
Gaara glanced up from the scroll he was reading on how to walk on trees when he sensed and heard people walking toward the clearing. He realized that one of the people was Naruto a second later from his powerful natural aura.
Gaara observed with interest as two people followed Naruto out of the bushes and into the clearing they had been staying in. A ways off in the shade of several large trees near the vine hut lay the sleeping form of the Gobi.
"Whoa! Large horse!" Gaara's attention was drawn to the small girl Naruto had described, she had light blue hair and completely blank eyes, which made it impossible to tell where she was looking. Slightly behind her was an elderly lady with grey hair, she wore a simple garb like her granddaughter. Her eyes were also the same as the girl Gaara identified as Rei.
He offered a greeting in the form of a nod before turning back to the scroll he was reading, he was never one for introductions or pleasantries.
"T-that's the Gobi isn't it?" Kazumi asked in shock, staring at the white sleeping form of the horse like dolphin Bijuu.
"Hai, I know I have a lot to explain. But he is my nephew." Naruto replied, getting a look of shock and incredulity from his traveling companions.
"That there is Gaara of the Sand Waterfall (Sabaku no Gaara)." Naruto introduced his friend, who only turned and nodded again before returning to his scroll.
"You will be staying here for a while, so why don't you go inside and get settled?" Naruto gestured toward the vine dome that they slept in, Rei nodded excitedly, dragging her grandmother toward the dome by her hand.
As they got close to the dome, Naruto waved his hand, and a section of the vine wall moved out of the way for them.
"Do you have Mokuton as well Naruto?" Kazumi asked, wonder on her features, though she was starting to realize that with Naruto everything was a surprise.
"Mokuton? I don't know what that is." Naruto replied, but before Kazumi could explain it, Rei gave a tug on her arm and pulled her toward the entrance. As they got closer, they walked past the giant form of the sleeping Gobi, who was now roughly the size of a ford truck.
Rei stared at the Bijuu in wonder and amazement for a moment before pulling her mother inside of the dome, disappearing from view.
'Kaa-san, what is Mokuton?' Naruto asked his mother but didn't get a response surprisingly. Confused he tried again but got no response, a second later he felt his father connect to his mind. He felt his father's love for his mother as he saw mental images of his mother sleeping peacefully in the soft grass of his mindscape. Nodding in understanding, he sent the conscious confusion related to Mokuton to his father.
He felt and experienced his fathers understanding of his question before he was sent memories of his father inventing the Mokuton based on his own control over plants. The Mokuton wasn't anywhere near as powerful as his own powers, but it allowed the user the control over trees and plants to an extent.
He felt, saw, and heard his father and mother 'talking' about who to give the Mokuton too, eventually deciding on a young boy named Hashirama Senju, originally the Mokuton was a bloodline that could be transferred via heredity and was meant to be the Senju bloodline like the Sharingan was the rival clan's, the Uchiha. Though years later when Kaguya saw how the Mokuton was used to easily force the Kyuubi into an adult host without killing the host, she realized that it was just too powerful. The DNA of Hashirama was changed in his sleep, removing his ability to pass down the Mokuton.
Naruto saw a memory through his father's view of the world, in it was an older Hashirama Senju using the Mokuton to construct most of Konoha, next to the brown-haired man stood a man with long spiky black hair wearing some form of red armor. The memories faded away and Naruto sent his thanks to his father for the explanation.
As Naruto sat on the ground processing this and thinking about other things, Rei and Kazumi came back out of the dome. Rei rushed over to him and sat down with a plop.
"Naruto! Did you make that hut thing? It's so cool! The flowers glow!" Rei said excitedly, blabbering on about all the cool things within the dome, "And the grass! It's so soft! How did you do that?"
By this time Kazumi had hobbled over and sat down next to Rei, Naruto chuckling at the young girl's excitement.
"Here, watch. I'll show you." Rei and her grandmother watched as a large vine grew out of the ground next to Naruto, on the edge of the vine a beautiful azure flower grew, Naruto plucked the flower off before leaning over and putting it Rei's hair.
Rei's eyes widened as she reached up and felt the flower, her face displaying her delight. Kazumi looked over at Naruto and smiled in thanks.
"How did you do that Naruto?" Rei asked, holding the large blue flower in her hands.
"My father among other things gave me control over the plants of this world." Kazumi raised an eyebrow at this, surprised but not as much as she would have been when she first met Naruto.
"Who is your father, Naruto?" Kazumi asked curiously, 'How can his father give him control over all plants?' She wondered, it sounded like Mokuton, which would mean Hashirama Senju. But Naruto was too young to be his son.
"Before I explain that to you I must tell you about the history of this world." Naruto began, for the next 2 hours he explained most of his family history to Kazumi, though he kept a good number of things to himself. But he told most of it, his parents, the Bijuu, the Otsutsuki clan that wasn't from this world. How he wasn't even partly human.
"That's amazing Naruto, so your father is the Kaminoki of this planet." Kazumi summarized, wrapping the long conversation back around to her original question.
"Hai."
It was at this moment that the now awake Gobi decided to trot over before laying down gracefully behind Naruto, wrapping his tails around Naruto affectionately.
"So, if I understand this correctly. The Bijuu are all your nephews?" Kazumi asked, making eye contact with the ancient creature of power that was lying behind Naruto. Naruto just nodded, stroking one of the Gobi's tails.
Rei looked like she really wanted to reach out and touch one of the horse's tails that was closer to her, Kokuō raised an 'eyebrow' in amusement before moving one of his beige tipped tail into the girl's range. Rei looked up at him, seeming to ask for permission. The Gobi nodded and faster than the Bijuu could blink the excitable little blue-haired human had latched onto his tail with a death grip.
Surprised at first he got over it as the female human began stroking his tail. Naruto just smiled before turning back to Kazumi,
"So, please tell me about your Dōjutsu, I'm intrigued."
Kazumi nodded, "It's called the Clear Eye, it allows the user to see great distances in an unobstructed straight line, it also allows the user to create powerful illusions from their imagination similar to the Kurama clan within Konoha. The illusions created by the clear eye are strong enough to fool the Sharingan and Byakugan." Kazumi said, getting a nod from Naruto.
"It's not strong enough to fool an Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan, or above though." Kaguya interjected, 'Mother, did you enjoy your nap?' Naruto asked, his voice slightly teasing. "Yes I did, thank you musuko."
When Naruto's eyes refocused he found Kazumi 'looking' at him, it was hard to tell with her lack of an iris or pupil.
"What was that? You just zoned out there for a moment." Kazumi inquired with a raised eyebrow.
"I was talking to my mother," Naruto explained, having already told them the gist of how his mother was inside his head among other things during their long talk. He got a nod from the white-haired woman.
"Anyway, I would like to ask if you can train me Kazumi-san, in a couple of weeks I will be leaving to go find my other nephews if I can. You and Rei will stay here with Gaara until I return." Naruto explained.
"That's fine by me, I was a jounin of my village after all." Kazumi replied, "Hmm…" She said as she looked around the clearing, Naruto looking at her, confused.
Kazumi went through hand seals before muttering something he didn't catch. Naruto looked around, his Byakugan not picking anything up. 'She used a clear eye Genjutsu.' Naruto realized, changing his chakra flow he deactivated his Byakugan and activated his 3 tomoe Sharingan. The genjutsu was still not visible, so he poured more chakra into it, spinning and evolving into his Mangekyo Sharingan. Naruto was finally able to see a translucent dome covering the area within they resided.
"Naruto! Your eyes are red!" Rei said, pointing at him in awe. Kazumi spun around and observed his eyes in shock.
"You have the Sharingan as well? On top of that a Mangekyo?!" Kazumi's jaw really did drop open in shock at that.
"Yes Kazumi-san, the Sharingan was 'discovered' by my older brother 3000 years ago, I gained my Mangekyo a couple of weeks ago," Naruto replied, his Mangekyo deactivating and fading back to his normal pale eyes.
'Kaa-san, I thought you said only an Eternal Mangekyo Sharingan wouldn't be fooled by Clear Eye Genjutsu, what is the difference between an Eternal and normal?' Naruto questioned, "To understand that you must first understand the downsides to having a Mangekyo, every time it's used it decreases the user's sight until eventually, they go blind." Kaguya said in her lecture voice, but was interrupted by Naruto's frantic voice, 'I'm going to go blind!?'
"No, I thought perhaps you would, which is why I said not to use your Mangekyo for now. But the fact that you are able to see through the old ladies Genjutsu and my looking at your eyes leads me to believe that your eyes already are an Eternal, you probably have your father to thank for that. He did change your eyes apparently." Kaguya reassured her son, 'I understand, thank you Kaa-san.' Naruto replied, an eternal didn't have the side effect of going blind and was probably more powerful.
"You're welcome, musuko. This doesn't mean you should just whip out your Mangekyo for everything though." Naruto nodded, refocusing back on the world around him. He found Kazumi once again sitting in front of him, though she seemed to be having a mental conversation with Kokuō. Rei was sitting in front of Gaara asking him questions about his sand.
Naruto smiled, glad to have found friends that he could trust.
Amegakure
A couple of days after the Massacre
Nakada awoke slowly, his eyes fluttering as he slowly came back to the land of the living. He wasn't surprised to realize he couldn't remember how he ended up here, used to such occurrences from his life in Konoha.
He'd had only recently come to Amegakure with his cousin, and life had been much better since then. Konan-sensei and Yahiko-sensei took care of him when Nagato-sensei was busy running the village. If all three of them were occupied, then he got to spend time with his new friend Okawa-san, who always took him for ramen or taught him a new jutsu.
'Village… Office… Bijuu… Kyuubi!' Nakada's mind fully kicked into a functioning mode and he remembered. The strange pale horned boy, he had felt… a bond of some kind to the boy, respect of some kind. 'And he called me Kyuubi…' He thought in confusion, trying to make sense of his memories.
The metal door slid open with a slight hiss, he looked up to find the concerned faces of his three sensei.
"Are you alright Nakada-kun?" Konan's voice conveyed her concern for him, making him feel warm inside. He was so happy to finally have people who cared for him.
"H-hai…" Nakada stammered out, "Nagato-sensei… why did he call me Kyuubi?" Nakada asked, looking into the matching violet eyes of his cousin. Nagato sighed deeply, "I wasn't planning to tell you for another few days until I had things prepared, but I wasn't going to keep this from you okay?" Nakada nodded, confused but he trusted his older cousin.
"Nakada, sealed within you is the Kyuubi, the strongest of the Bijuu… That's why everyone hated you in Konoha." Nakada's expression was one of understanding, then rage.
"They attacked me because of that!? I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW!" Nakada yelled, he understood the concept of sealing since Nagato had been training him in Fuinjutsu when they arrived in Amegakure.
All three of his sensei's looked miserable, and he calmed down, not wanting to upset them. "I'm sorry Nakada…"
Nakada only nodded shakily, trying to process this. 'Everyone hated me in Konoha, for something I didn't even know... Who sealed the Kyuubi into me? Why...'
"Nakada, that white-haired boy, the one named Shiori Oni. You must stay away from him, he wants to take you and absorb your Bijuu I'm sure of it." Nagato stated, anger evident in his voice, bringing Nakada out of his depressing thoughts.
"He didn't seem so bad Nagato-sensei…" Nakada said innocently, confused as to why his cousin seemed so against the boy.
"Nakada-kun, the boy killed over 80 shinobi, near instantly and without a second thought." Konan paused, drawing Nakada's attention to her. "Okawa was killed by him…" Konan trailed off, seeing Nakada's shock and then tears.
Konan grimaced, Okawa had been one of the Jounin Nakada met when he first came to the village, and they had gotten along very well. During Nakada's free time after training, he often went out and got ramen with Okawa and Yahiko if Yahiko wasn't busy.
As much as Konan hated to admit it, the three of them didn't have as much time to train Nakada as they would have liked. Nagato was the Amekage of the village, she and Yahiko were the two second most powerful shinobi in the village. They often went on dangerous missions and dealt with matters for Nagato around the Land of Rain. On such times they often left Nakada in Okawa's capable hands.
Nakada was devastated, staring at the wall one could observe the rage and hatred entering his eyes. The three Ame orphans were all surprised when Nakada's eyes suddenly formed into the Sharingan, one eye having 3 tomoe and the other 2. "I WILL KILL HIM!" Nakada screamed, 'Okawa-san… he killed him.'
Land of Grass
One month later
"Goodbye Rei-chan, don't worry though okay? I'll be back soon." Naruto reassured the young girl, who was currently wrapped around his waist, holding tightly to his kimono and sobbing, she didn't want Naruto to leave.
"Y-you promise?" Rei said, looking up at him with those white eyes of hers. Naruto nodded, giving the girl a hug. "I promise Rei-chan, now go back to your Obaa-san okay?" Rei nodded, releasing herself from him and backing up to stand next to Kazumi.
"Good luck," Gaara said, his voice emotionless but his eyes conveying his real thoughts to Naruto, Naruto nodded in appreciation.
The now fully recovered Gobi stood behind them all, but still at a smaller size. Apparently an ability all Bijuu possessed.
"See you all soon." Naruto waved, his body dissolving into two strands of rotating black and white chakra, the next moment the helix-like form thrust into the air, disappearing from sight.
"Come Rei, let's make lunch." Kazumi said kindly, out of the four 'people,' Rei took Naruto's leaving the hardest. Over the last month, Rei and Naruto had gotten close, Rei even referring to Naruto at times as an older brother. But even though they had a close relationship, Rei still profoundly respected Naruto, both Kazumi and Rei realized that eventually, Naruto would be their kage. He was the leader of their little band.
Kazumi and Rei began collecting the supplies they would need to cook lunch, Gaara disappearing into the tree line, most likely to hunt. The Gobi walked back over to his favorite spot by the hut, lying down and watching the two she-humans go about making food.
Kazumi had no doubt after a month of knowing Naruto that he would create his village, Naruto was impressive and with the full backing of his parents could wipe out a village. She had been training both Naruto and Gaara in shinobi skills, things they were lacking, and while Gaara had to go through chakra control exercises, Naruto quickly mastered tree walking and water walking.
'Gaara's a strange one, but then again, they are both strange. I suppose I have no right to judge though.' Kazumi mused, helping her granddaughter cut the potatoes, among other things she had worked on getting herself into better physical strength.
'Good luck, Naruto-kun.'
With Naruto sometime later
Naruto stood on a tall hill, at the border between Grass and Waterfall. With all the training he had done this month he had been able to increase the speed of his helix form by a significant margin.
Naruto folded his hands together behind him as he looked out over the Land of Waterfalls. 'To cloud then, the scrolls I read in Suna and Kazumi-sensei say that the 2 tails and 8 tails reside in Kumo.' With that thought, Naruto formed into his helix form and launched himself toward the Hidden Cloud village.
It took Naruto all of the next day to travel across the vast expanse of space that was the land of Waterfall and Lightning. It was nightfall when he finally formed back into his human form on a tall mountain looking over the Hidden Cloud village. He had easily flown over the Kumo shinobi guards posted all around the village. His Byakugan eyes searched for either of his two nephews, roving and darting across the village.
The dark night sky obscured the form of the white-haired boy in shadows, his eyes flashed red for a moment before slowly a hood and face mask crawled it's way up over his head. The white-haired horned boy made a running jump off the high cliff before spinning and morphing into a double helix, shooting through the dark night sky.
Inside Kumogakure
A blonde girl with dark eyes cowered in a cold, wet alleyway. She was crying quietly as she tried to pull herself farther into the corner, deathly afraid of being found.
The 8-year-old girl cringed as she heard the sound of steps nearby, sobbing quietly in fear. The girl wished desperately that the shinobi entrusted to watch over her by the recently passed 3rd Raikage were there. But they were nowhere to be found, they had all abandoned her, just like everyone else.
The new Raikage was not as kind to her or many people within the village, believing in an even more controlling method of ruling than his father. Three weeks ago A, the third Raikage had died protecting a large squadron of his men, his son, Ay had been made the Yondaime Raikage days later.
Yugito had quickly realized that the new Raikage did not look upon her favorably, not wanting to return to a life of abuse she had hidden in the slums of the village, and she wasn't faring very well. Her clothes were torn and stained red with blood, on top of that she was starving and dehydrated.
"Come on out kitty, you can't stay hidden forever! When I find you I'm going to enjoy breaking you into a fine weapon for Kumo, or maybe I'll just have some fun, and then kill you!" Yugito heard the scary voice of her pursuer, a Jounin of cloud that seemed to personally hate her, she scurried farther into the corner as his voice rang out closer. "No one will accept you demon, no one will love you! The only reason Raikage-sama hasn't called a cat hunt on you is cause' he believes that you can be a powerful weapon for Kumo. I think he's wrong, but who am I to decide." The man continued on, his voice sounding fainter as he talked.
Yugito peeked out from where she was hiding, seeing the alleyway empty she sighed in relief, 'He's finally gone.'
"Boo!"
Yugito shrieked and leaped back against the wall, her black eyes wide with fear at the sudden appearance of her hunter. "I found you!" the man said in a sing-song voice. The man drew a kunai slowly... threateningly... enjoying the look of fear on her face as he brought it closer to her.
Yugito closed her eyes, trying to refuse the reality before her. A moment later she heard a thud, "It's not nice to pick on children, especially one important to me." A young, symphonious and soothing voice echoed lightly around the alley.
Yugito's eyes shot open, taking in the fact that the Jounin was now on the opposite side of the alleyway, next to her stood a boy near her age wearing a white kimono, his head and face covered by a white hood and face mask.
Her eyes darted back to the Jounin as he groaned, getting to his feet. When she looked back to the boy that was next to her he was gone, not a trace was left.
"Show yourself!" The Kumo Shinobi yelled, only to fly across the alleyway into another wall, the side of his head burned severely. The ninja screamed in pain as he collapsed to the ground.
'I didn't even see anything hit him. If that boy is here to hurt me, I'm screwed.' Yugito thought in a panic, totally forgetting the strange boy's earlier words. Yugito's eyes shot around the alleyway, trying to find a way to escape with her life. Suddenly in the corner of her eye, she saw a shadow near her move, the boy in white forming out of thin air within the shadows. Yugito for the first time saw the pale eyes of the boy, his face and head obscured by his hood and face mask. She also noticed that she was somewhat taller than the boy.
"Are you okay? Don't worry, I'm not here to hurt you." The boy spoke, standing a respectful distance away from her, he extended his hand and she looked at him suspiciously. "My name is Naruto Ōtsutsuki, what is yours?" At this Yugito's eyes widened slightly, feeling a jerk from within her own body.
"… What do you want?" Yugito asked suspiciously, getting to her feet she stared into the barely visible pupil-less eyes of the boy in front of her.
"Believe it or not, I desire to help you. One can easily see that you are miserable and despised here in Kumo." The boy who had introduced himself as Naruto gestured to the apparently knocked out Kumo jounin on the ground a couple of feet off.
"It's not my fault! Everyone is afraid of me, hates me. No one will come near me!" Yugito said defensively, "A lady just last week said that I might attack them if they got too close." She fought down her tears, determined not to show weakness in the face of apparent death.
"Do you know why you are treated like that?" Naruto inquired, his eyes firmly on the girl in front of him, at least that's what it appeared like, in truth his vision was scanning around them, making sure no one snuck up on them.
"Something to do with the Nibi… I've heard people say that it was captured by Oji-san…" Yugito replied warily, backing up carefully, she stopped as her back reached the wall. What could she say, the boy in front of her was scary.
Naruto stared at her, 'According to Kazumi-sensei, the Nibi was captured by the 3rd Raikage… She must have known him, strange that she would be despised so soon after the man's passing,' Naruto mused. As he had been searching for the girl, he'd heard talk of the 3rd's recent death from villagers conversations.
"That's very interesting isn't it, container of the Nibi?" Yugito gawked into the barely visible eyes of the boy in front of her, her mind locking up in shock. 'It all makes sense now…'
Naruto raised a hand and placed two fingers on her forehead, the last thing Yugito heard was, "Time to wake up Matatabi-chan…" Yugito collapsed in Naruto's arms a moment later, holding her he jumped up to the rooftop, keeping his eyes roving around him for any shinobi nearby.
"Did you really have to do it like that Naruto-kun?" Kaguya said with some amusement at her son's solution to waking up the second part of her power. 'Matatabi is sleeping inside the girl mother, presumably since she was sealed. I had to wake her so that she could meet her host. Speaking of which she didn't tell me her name, she's very untrusting, and I think meeting Matatabi-meikko will be good for her.' Naruto replied to his mother, making his way across the rooftops as silently as possible and avoiding the guards.
Next morning
The blonde girl's eyes shot open, leaping to her feet and extending her hands in a claw shape, she snarled as she took in her unfamiliar surroundings.
She was in a cave of some kind, lining the ceiling were several flower bulbs that glowed with a warm yellow light. In front of her was a fire, surrounded by rocks. It was only then that Yugito took in the calm boy sitting directly across the fire watching her.
'H-he's got horns!' Was her first thought, quickly taking in the admittedly strange appearance of Naruto.
"Good morning," Was Naruto's simple greeting, followed by a small bow of his head.
Yugito stared at the Kaminoki child for several moments, organizing her thoughts from her long extensive talk with the Nibi last night. She had woken up within her mind, directly in front of the cage that held the large hellcat.
Nibi had explained what she was, why and how she was there, and what Naruto was and that she should trust him. Yugito felt overwhelmed, but after realizing that the Nibi had been the one who had been taking care of her since she was two, she quickly decided to trust the giant feline's words.
"My apologies for my rudeness Naruto-sama, my name is Yugito Nii." Yugito gave a respectful bow, sitting down on the other side of the fire. Matatabi had explained just what Naruto was and truth be told if she hadn't already feared the power of the boy she did now, 'He's the freaking son of the two creators of all chakra on earth!' Yugito thought in awe, respect, and fear. "Yes, I know! Isn't it delightful kitten? We have waited for thousands of years for his arrival, and now he's finally here!" Matatabi giggled in her mind.
"There is no need to refer to me as such, though you have my gratitude for the respect." Naruto bowed his head again, he had been taking lessons with his mother at night about proper manners and etiquette as the heir to the Ōtsutsuki clan.
Yugito only nodded, unsure how to respond. Naruto continued on, unperturbed, "As I am sure my niece explained to you, I wish to find and help all the Bijuu, as well as collect their payment to my mother." Naruto said, getting a nod from Yugito.
"My larger goal though is to create a village away from the wars of humans, a place where my family can reside in safety, a place for those that are scorned, hated and despised for things out of their control. A place with its own kind of peace where we only look out for own village, encouraging peace and being strong enough to defend our village against those that wish to disturb it." Naruto explained, his voice calm and respectable. Naruto's back was straight and his appearance, along with the clipped eyebrows really impressed upon Yugito that she was in the presence of someone of extraordinary power.
Naruto's lessons with his mother showed, 'Mother said that while I need to keep my warmer side, I need to have a persona to don in times it's required. That I cannot be friendly to everyone.' Naruto recalled, his mother said that while he ought to continue looking for others, he needed to also show that he was going to be their Kage. To prove that he was strong enough to be their leader.
Yugito meanwhile was gazing at Naruto, finding herself believing that Naruto could accomplish his goals and create such a place where she would be around family and those that cared for her.
"And I… I can join this village?" Yugito asked, hope and fear present in her voice and face. Naruto smiled, "Yes Yugito, I'm not just looking for the Bijuu for what is rightfully my mothers, I know that the jinchuriki of my nephews and nieces are more often than not scorned. My friend who I lived with in Suna is the container of the one-tail, Shukaku." Naruto explained, getting a happy nod from the Nibi container.
"Thank you Naruto-sama," Yugito said, earning a slight scowl from the Kaminoki, making her giggle.
The next day
"Good, again," A cold monotone ordered, a young blue-haired girl nodded in response and began running forward once more, dodging back and forth in an attempt to get as close to as she could to her sensei.
Kazumi watched from the shade of a tree, surprisingly Kokoū-san had taken an interest in her work and was sitting behind her, slightly wrapped around where she sat. Kazumi smiled, watching as her granddaughter tried her hardest to reach Gaara.
It was actually something she had come up with since Rei had asked to be trained as well a couple of weeks ago. She'd suggested it to Gaara, getting one of his usual nod responses, though she had seen the slight signs that Gaara was going to enjoy this.
The white-haired lady winced as Rei was once more batted aside by Gaara's sand, sending her a couple of feet. "Good, again," Kazumi shook her head before focusing on the work before her, before Naruto had left he'd explained an idea he had for a seal, actually multiple seals though it wasn't entirely planned out yet.
She had been teaching him Fuinjutsu over the last month, and while he was just a beginner he was adequate at seals, but it was not his strong suit and was something he struggled with. According to his mother, Ōtsutsuki had always struggled with seals, preferring a less complicated solution. Which was usually brute power, something all Ōtsutsuki possessed in spades.
Naruto had asked her to see if she could create a seal that would allow the one it was applied to, to use their chakra in a more efficient, more straightforward way. His idea had been that the seal would 'expand' one's chakra network, making their body one large vein of chakra so to speak. Making the chakra much easier to control and move around one's body.
Currently, she had made good progress, finding out that the concept was indeed possible but extremely dangerous. Applying the seal to someone would force all their Chakra gates open at the same time permanently. Which would kill anyone in a matter of minutes at the most.
Kazumi sighed, scrapping another sheet of paper with a sealing matrix drawn on it aimed toward fixing the issue with the Chakra Gates, she would somehow need to create a seal gate to replace the destroyed Chakra Gates, but also be able to be released temporarily up to the 7th gate in case someone wanted or needed to use them. Part of the issue was that Kazumi's understanding of the gates was somewhat limited… Sighing she tried another approach in the sealing matrix. The Gobi snorted as he closed his eyes, getting more comfortable.
"Kokuō-san! What did I tell you? You blew all my papers over again!" Kazumi berated the large horse like Bijuu for knocking her stacks of paper over again for the 4th time today. The Gobi's eyes widened in fear of the enraged old lady, cowering away as she came after wielding an ink brush.
"I'm gonna make it where you can't ever move again!" Kazumi yelled, chasing after the now running for his life Bijuu.
Gaara saw from the spot he'd been standing in for the last hour and a half, his arms crossed as he watched the Gobi and Kazumi weave in and out between the trees, Kazumi yelling threats at the Bijuu as Kokuō ran in fear from the old lady. The scene was almost amusing enough to make Gaara laugh, but he didn't.
Gaara frowned. Since his father actually tried to kill him he'd had a hard time expressing his emotions. "You need to move on Gaara, your father is a monster…" Came uncharacteristically supportive reply to his thoughts from the raccoon housed inside him. Gaara quietly sighed, turning to the panting Rei who was catching her breath after her latest attempt to reach him, Rei had improved from these sessions. At the beginning she couldn't come within 40 feet of him, she could now reach within 15 feet of him before she couldn't dodge the sand. Of course, Gaara wasn't trying his hardest to attack the girl either, so that probably had something to do with it.
"Take a break Rei-chan," Gaara said, getting a nod from his student he began walking toward the edge of the clearing. Rei watched him disappear into the shadows, his large gourd the last thing to go from view. Shaking her head she moved toward the hut, walking inside she found her bag and fished out a canteen of water before downing a significant amount of it.
Rei sighed in satisfaction and laid down on the soft grass of the hut Naruto had constructed. The shelter was about 9 yards in diameter, rising from all sides in a dome and meeting at the top, woven through the leafy vine walls were several glowing flower bulbs that provided a warm light.
Rei laid back on the soft grass, curling into a comfortable position as she decided to take a nap. A few moments later she fell asleep, the exhaustion of the severe training overcoming her.
With Naruto and Yugito
Yugito alighted on the rocky terrain of the Land of Lighting softly, like a cat. A moment later Naruto formed out of smoke next to her. They had just escaped Kumogakure's vicinity and were now out of range of the guards and patrols. That morning they had moved early to flee the village, Naruto having only taken her to a cave close to Kumo. Having not known if Yugito would want to stay in Kumo or not, he had made sure to wait within a reasonable travel distance to the village in case Yugito wished to return.
Having decided to come with him, Yugito followed the Kaminoki's orders. She was to do her best to sneak out of the villages while he would follow her, directing the guard's attention away or getting her out if need be.
When the sun was still hiding behind the mountains, and there was a dewy mist covering the mountainous rocky terrain Yugito and Naruto had set out. Yugito had been shocked as Naruto's body dissolved into smoke before her very eyes, She'd already seen it before, but she hadn't processed it, and the impossibility of such an ability astounded her, but yet he did it with ease.
"Yugito," Naruto suddenly said, making Yugito stop quickly in her run. "Yes, Naruto-sama?" She asked, making him sigh at her 'nickname' for him.
"Mother sensed my brother's chakra inside Kumo for a brief moment, I need to go investigate." Naruto explained, getting a look of confusion from Yugito, "Brother?"
"Yes, the one you may know as the Sage of Six Paths, he is the eldest of my mother's children," Naruto replied, his pale eyes bulging ever so slightly as he stared back toward the village, attempting to find the chakra of his brother, but the range was too great, and it had disappeared again.
"Understood Naruto-sama, I will wait," Yugito replied, looking around for a place to wait for Naruto's return in the nearby vicinity. Naruto noticed her searching, realizing leaving her out in the open would be wrong.
Naruto turned to a nearby wall of rock, pointing his palm at it and drawing Yugito's attention to himself.
"Dai hakkutsu!" The next moment the wall exploded outwards toward them both, smoke pouring out of the hole. Yugito lifted her arms to protect herself. A bit later she cracked her eyes, surprised that none of the rock had hit her, she was about to yell at Naruto for doing that when she saw a wall of thick vines and trees weaved together in front of her.
"What, you didn't think I was going to hit you with that did you?" Yugito whirled, finding Naruto standing behind her and to her left, she immediately noticed the smirk on his face.
"Jerk," Was her annoyed reply, turning back to the exploded wall she found the vines gone, and she was able to see a decently sized cave in the before blank rock wall. As she observed the new cave and the rocks spread across the nearby ground, Naruto walked forward. His chakra extending out of him and latching on to decent sized stones around him as he walked into the cave, his chakra threads arranged the rock's in a circle in the middle of the new cave.
"Katon: Gōkakyū no Jutsu," Naruto said calmly, spitting out a small fireball at the firewood that had suddenly appeared in the center of the rings of rocks. Yugito walked up beside him a moment later, watching in amazement as plants and vines grew out of the very stone, weaving themselves together, creating a wall over the rocky walls of the cave. A moment later several pink, bright bulbs grew upside down on the ceiling, all of them providing calming warm light.
"Yugito," The blonde's attention was brought back to Naruto as he held out his hand. She observed with confusion the small ball held in his hand, it seemed to be made of glass and held a beautifully intricate design of a yin-yang symbol within it.
"This is made from my Chakra, if you are in trouble, break this orb, and I will come as soon as possible," Naruto explained, seeing the look of confusion on her face, Yugito nodded and took the orb, slipping it into her pocket. Naruto had kindly formed a whole new set of clothes for her last night from his chakra, 'His abilities to create things are quite useful.' Yugito mused, observing the now inviting and almost quaint cave Naruto had created.
"I will be back soon," With that Naruto dissolved into two strands of chakra before flying out the entrance of the cave and out of sight. Yugito sighed, sitting down by the fire she decided to talk to Matatabi-chan.
With Naruto, he was weaving and dodging through the spikes of rock that seemed to cover everything in the Land of Lighting. Naruto spotted a patrol of guards and made his way around them carefully. A couple of minutes later Naruto rematerialized on top of the Raikage's tower that was attached to the side of a mountain.
Naruto's Byakugan scanned across the village, attempting to find the source of Hagoromo's chakra in the village. 'What could possibly be here that would contain nii-san's chakra?' Naruto thought, becoming frustrated as his all-seeing eyes were unable to locate anything.
"Naruto-kun! To your left!" Kaguya's voice chimed out, Naruto immediately obeyed, his vision turning he saw a brief glimpse of his brothers potent chakra before it vanished. After it faded Naruto realized it had disappeared behind a door, 3 people having just exited said door. Naruto could make out two Jounin level ninja, one wearing an extremely bored expression on his face. Standing in front of the two was a huge, muscled man. He noticed immediately the massive weights covering his arms.
'Nii-san's chakra is inside, I'll wait till they leave.' Naruto thought, but the next moment he changed his mind. Because it was at that moment that the buff man was surrounded by lightning before he vanished faster than Naruto could see.
The next instant Naruto heard lightning, an explosion, and a yell. Turning to the tower underneath him he was shocked to find the same man underneath him in the Raikage tower. 'He's fast, too fast for me.' Naruto decided, 'I'll have to come back and search another day, Hagoromo-nii's chakra has waited for a long time, it can wait a little longer.'
With that decided Naruto turned into a helix and began to fly away. Because his vision was no longer focused on the village below him, he missed one of the earlier jounin burst into the Raikage's office panting and sweating, yelling about sensing someone on the roof of the tower.
What did bring Naruto's attention back to the village was a significant amount of Killing Intent directed at him, looking down at the village in surprise he saw the same buff and dark-skinned man glaring up at him from atop the Raikage Tower, lightning sparking all over his body.
Naruto realized he was in trouble quickly, 'I can't go back to Yugito, this man will follow me.' Naruto went the opposite direction of where he was first headed, instead, he flew as fast as he could across the village, hoping to lose the swift man.
It was not to be, Naruto watched as the man rushed across the village, appearing directly under him and staring at him before against disappearing, this time arriving farther in front of him on a roof.
"Raiton: Yari no shi! (Spear Death)" Naruto heard the man yell before two bolts of lightning flew toward him, he dodged out of the way of the extremely fast thunderbolts. 'This is bad, I can't escape from this man with speed alone, I have to lose him somehow.' Naruto thought, maintaining a clear head.
"If you can understand me, land this instant!" Naruto heard the large man shout at him, Naruto floated in the air for a few moments, using his Byakugan he scanned the buildings and the roof the man was on. 'Good, it has one,'
Naruto lowered himself to the ground, the dark-skinned man keeping his stare firmly on him. Naruto began forming his real body, adding his hood and face mask to his clothes, which gave him a mysterious look and hid his identity, though mostly he was hiding his horns.
"Who are you! State your purpose for being here." The buff man ordered gruffly, his lighting chakra still sparking around his tensed form. He observed the youth in front of him carefully, he was unable to see his shadowed face, 'It's a boy, he can't be that old either judging from his height.'
"I mean no harm, I simply sensed something here that interested me, I was just leaving." The yellow-haired man was startled at the boy's voice, it was smooth, calm, and had a melodic nature to it, coming out soothingly.
"What did you sense? Who are you?" The man interrogated, he noticed his Jounin guards leaping across the rooftops toward him and this intruder in his village.
"It's rude to ask so many questions you know, I don't even know who you are." The boy's voice was calm, but the man could sense the underlying amused tone.
"I'm the Yondaime Raikage, and you are trespassing in my village." The Raikage barked at the boy, he could feel a slight unease as he stared at the boy, there was something about him, the way his face was obscured, his head tilted down, the way he held himself was almost like royalty.
"Oh, very well then. Where is the Hachibi?" The out of the blue question surprised the Raikage, but he didn't let it show on his face.
"Like I would tell you that. NOW TELL ME WHO YOU ARE!" He roared, tired of the boy's question dodging, he was just about ready to restrain the boy and take him to a cell to be interrogated for him.
"Hmm…" The figure raised his head, and the 4th Raikage could make out red eyes before they faded away, only blackness within the hood. The next moment his Jounin landed nearby, surrounding the hooded figure in a rough triangle.
The Raikage was prepared for it, so he wasn't thrown off guard like his Jounin guard Cee when the boy clothed in white launched forward toward him, kicking him in the chest before leaping across the rooftops. The Raikage immediately followed and appeared in front of the boy, who stopped smoothly before he would have run into the Raikage's ripped torso.
"You are going to pay for that boy!" The Raikage roared, about to launch forward and Lariat the twat.
"I am not going to pay Lord Raikage, you are." The boy's head shot up, and the Raikage could discern two pale pupil-less eyes in the shadows of the hood. "You hurt my family, and mark my words I will make you pay." The boy growled, his voice threatening and powerful, KI flowing through the air, but the kage easily ignored it.
"Chitose no bakuhatsu!" The youth threw his hands toward the ground in front of him, the Raikage watched with his lighting enhanced synapses as the roof between them explode violently. With his super-enhanced speed, he easily outran the explosion and appeared on a nearby rooftop.
He stared around the area, trying to locate the boy. Cee landed next to him a moment later, holding a seal. "He's gone Ay-sama." Ay growled, "Alert the guards, give them the boy's description, he is to be caught alive if possible."Ay ordered, a moment later disappearing in a blast of wind.
He appeared within his office a second later, his lightning fading away. 'The boy did remind me that I need to find a new host for the Hachibi though, after Bee's death I have put it off for too long.' Ay mused, already having gone through the grieving from his brother's death.
"Hmm, I'll need to look at worthy candidates, and that boy, he had the Byakugan… I'm sure of it… does he know?"
With Yugito
Yugito was taking a nap, which suspiciously looked like a cat nap. Snoring peacefully she groaned as she heard her inner demon's voice in her head.
"Kitten, Naruto-sama is returning. You know… you ought to try to get him when he's young, he's going to be quite the looker one day…" Matatabi suggested, 'Matatabi-chan! Stop saying things like that!' Yugito said, her face red in embarrassment. Though if she was honest, despite the weird horns, Naruto did look good.
Speaking of the Kaminoki son, he appeared in a coil of chakra in the entrance to the cave, quietly walking inside.
"Did you find what you were looking for?" Yugito questioned, seeing Naruto's rather blank face. She frowned when Naruto shook his head.
"No, I couldn't with the Raikage in the village. He is simply too fast for me. As I was trying to leave he somehow detected me, chasing me across the ground as I flew through the air. I'm simply not fast enough to outrun him. So I was forced to talk to him and create a distraction through which to escape through the air vents." Naruto explained as he sat down, suddenly in a puff of smoke — surprising Yugito — cooking supplies appeared in Naruto's lap.
"Hungry?" Yugito nodded quickly, feeling her stomach growl. "We can not stay after we eat, the Raikage is sure to begin looking for me and eventually you when he realizes you are gone," Naruto said, pointing his outstretched hand toward the still burning fire. Yugito watched once more as two poles formed on each side of the fire, a pole laying across the flames, connecting to the two poles.
Naruto poured the needed ingredients into the pot and water from a recently unsealed canteen before putting the pot over the fire.
"As I said already, our next target is the Sanbi, father says that he is somewhere in Land of Water," Naruto said as he stirred the pot, not looking at Yugito as she nodded, but he saw it.
"Didn't the Land of Water come out of a civil war a couple of years ago?" Yugito asked, remembering some history scrolls she had read back when the 3rd Raikage was alive. Naruto shrugged, forming two bowls and spoons, ladling some soup into each of their bowls before leaning back. As he leaned back, a large pillow materialized behind him that he leaned against as he ate his soup.
Yugito and Naruto quickly finished their food, Naruto resealing the cooking supplies and pot, dispelling his creations with a wave of his hand. Yugito watched as the vines and plants covering the walls of the cave receded into the walls, disappearing entirely a minute later.
"Let us be off." Yugito nodded, and they ran across the rocky terrain, their arms trailing behind them. (Because aerodynamics!)
1 week later
Yugito and Naruto shot through the misty trees, Naruto going at a slower pace so as not to leave Yugito behind. They had finally reached the Land of Water a day ago and were steadily heading toward where Naruto's tou-san directed them.
It took them another day of travel before they arrived at their destination, the still recovering from the civil war Village Hidden in the Mist.
"Well, that's surprising," Naruto commented, he and Yugito stood on a tall hill some distance from the village, far enough where it was impossible to see the village, at least for Yugito.
"What?"
"My nephew already knows I'm coming, he's pulsing his chakra at regular intervals," Naruto explained, his Byakugan eyes trained on a boy older than himself walking through the village, the boy had long dark brown hair and brown eyes, wearing simple clothing of light colors, with dark blue pants. "It seems the container of Isobu container is disliked like yourself Yugito," Naruto said, scowling as he watched people yell insults at the boy who was around 10 years old, throwing things at him as he passed.
"Do you wish to come with me to introduce yourself to my nephew's container?"
"Hai." Yugito nodded, Naruto gestured forward, and they began walking toward the mist village, having decided on a more straightforward entrance. They walked down the main foggy road out of the village, passing many travelers leaving and joining the crowds entering.
"Name and reason for entering?" A Mist Jounin asked, looking at the strange duo. Naruto wore his regular clothing with his hood and face mask up, while Yugito now wore a dark blue kimono that had designs on it that looked similar to Matatabi's hellfire. Underneath the kimono, she wore close-fitting blue pants.
Naruto's head snapped up, causing the Jounin's attention to be attracted to him. Naruto's eyes glowed red, three tomoe spinning around the pupil.
"Genjutsu: Sharingan!" Naruto muttered, catching the unsuspecting Jounin under the influence of his eyes.
"My friend here and I are just visiting to meet a friend who is expecting us," Naruto said, the Jounin nodded blankly and gestured for them to go through into the village, calling for the next people as they passed.
"How did you do that Naruto?" Yugito asked, Naruto turned toward her, and she was taken aback by his ominous glowing red eyes. "That is the Sharingan kitten, a power his brother and my father discovered. Those eyes are powerful enough to subdue even us Bijuu with relative ease." Matatabi explained in her containers head, getting a mental nod from the blonde.
Naruto sharply turned away a moment later, his eyes reverting back to his ever-present Byakugan, scanning around the village for the 3 tails container. He found him a moment later, sitting at a table alone in a restaurant that apparently didn't know he was there or didn't dislike him. The brown-haired boy kept checking the entrances every few seconds. 'How does he know that I'm here?' Naruto mused, "Isobu was always one of the smartest Bijuu, and one of the best sensors, he most likely sensed you when you entered the Land of Water or close to that." Kaguya explained, getting a greeting from her son. Naruto and Kaguya didn't often talk during the day, but they spent their nights together, getting to know each other and Kaguya telling him things about her life before he was born and afterward.
Naruto sped up, Yugito falling into step beside him as they walked through the village, weaving between villagers as they headed toward the restaurant. A couple of minutes later after almost getting bowled over by a group of rowdy kids Naruto and Yugito entered.
Naruto's eyes were already looking at the brown haired kid who stared back before he even walked into the building. Strolling slowly and with a natural grace, Naruto walked over to the table, followed by Yugito.
The brown-haired boy nodded in greeting as they sat down, "Isobu gives his welcome and wishes me to express his happiness that you are here Kaminoki-sama." The boy said, gaining a giggle out of Yugito. The brown-haired boy turned to the girl, confused as to what was funny. "Oh sorry, he just doesn't like being called sama, I do it anyway just to bother him though," Yugito explained.
"My name is Naruto Ōtsutsuki-Kaminoki," Naruto interrupted, ignoring Yugito and starting the introductions, getting her cue Yugito spoke, "My name is Yugito Nii, the container of the Nibi." She waved slightly.
The brown-haired boy nodded, "My name is Kai, I don't know what my last name is." The now named Kai gave a small bow of his head.
"I'm assuming Isobu already explained everything to you?" Kai nodded, "I have already packed everything that I wish to bring, though it is back at my home" Naruto's clipped circular eyebrow rose in surprise.
"How did you know?" Naruto asked, "I guessed mainly, you have finally returned, Isobu owes your mother chakra, and he is the three tails, since the Bijuu are more easily absorbed if done in order by tails, and Isobu sensed the two tails with you I deduced that the Nibi container was traveling with you. I came to the conclusion that you allowed people to travel with you, am I wrong?" Kai explained in a tone that sounded almost bored.
"No, you are not. There is something else you should know, and yes I am okay with you coming with us." Naruto began, Kai visibly focused on him while Yugito leaned back in her seat, already knowing what Naruto was going to say.
"I plan to create a village, one where people who are scorned and despised unfairly can come and not be judged, a place that believes in supporting the village and keeping peace only within the village, not trying to force peace on others that do not want it. Being strong enough as well to defend their peace against others." Naruto began, for the next couple of minutes Kai and Naruto talked about his plans for an eventual village, Kai pointing out a couple of flaws in his thinking which Naruto thanked him for.
"Go and get what you want to bring and meet us at the gate," Naruto said, standing as Kai and Yugito stood with him. Kai nodded before quickly leaving the restaurant, ignoring the glares of the customers.
Naruto looked in distaste at the villagers biased and cruel hatred of someone who did not at all deserve it. He and Yugito left the establishment in silence, moving across the village toward the gate.
END CHAPTER
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Azaira's first review on Chapter 4: Minato did seal all of Kyuubi into Nakada. (Wasn't done while half dead, and had an Uzumaki on hand to direct the sealing.) Kushina can't remember much about her clan because of how young she is (4-5) years old. I changed some things around. Mito Uzumaki did seal the Kyuubi into her self, but I do actually have an explanation as to why she was able to do that. I have a family tree diagram created for this story, which uses "clan bs" to explain how the heck stuff works. As to a harem... I'm not particularly interested in writing one, I haven't really put any thought into who Naruto is going to "end up with." I plan to write, and if the story flows in that direction then there you go. All the Bijuu are not female. Only female ones are Kyuubi, Saiken, Chōmei, and Matatabi.
Ezeakel On chapter 6: I fixed it, and all the ones in previous chapters, as well as went back to update grammar mistakes. Expect the first posting of the chapter to potentially have errors, if you keep pointing them out. I'll keep going back and correcting them ;)
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Azaira on Chapter 6, Jul 2: Because the Rinne-Sharingan came first. Kaguya got her Rinne-Sharingan from the god tree, as it's literally his eye. Both the Sharingan and Rinnegan are decedents of the Rinne-Sharingan. It also has its own set of powers and allows me to make up some of my own for it.
Reaper on Chapter 6: My friend, I don't think you've actually watched the anime. Because your review is totally wrong. The first person to ever possess the Sharingan on earth was Hagoromo, the sage of six paths and Kaguya's son. If you don't believe me look at the wiki for Hagoromo. As I explained above, the Rinnegan and Sharingan are different parts of the Rinne-Sharingan.
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