People talking, "Hello everyone."
People thinking, 'People often underestimate the power of insanity.'
Demon/beast/other talking, "I will eat you."
Demon/beast/other thinking, 'Author is concerned with this story happening too fast, but decides it's not worth worrying over.'
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 seven: Insanity
Gate of Kirigakure
"What's taking him so long?" Yugito asked impatiently, tapping her foot against the ground in irritation. Naruto pulled himself away from his observations of the admittedly interesting and unique village. The entire place was covered in a thick mist that made regular sight hard for any significant distance, though with his eyes it didn't hinder him.
'Yugito is right, it's been quite some time.' Naruto mused, throwing his all-seeing gaze around the village, trying to find Kai and see why he was taking so long.
"Yugito come," Naruto ordered, already sprinting into the village. Leaping up to the rooftops and dashing through the dense mist, Yugito not far behind him.
'I'm not going to make it at this speed!' Naruto thought, springing into the air he molded his form into the double helix of his bloodline, the strands spiraling around each other viciously as he plowed through the mist, leaving Yugito far behind.
'No no no!' Naruto thought, exploding through the fog he sped toward a man wearing an oversized white, high-collared coat. The man jumped back, but Naruto was too late to stop the activation of his Jutsu.
"Ranton: Piasuboruto (Storm Release: Piercing Bolt)!"
Naruto barely dodged the two bolts of lighting, his eyes darting toward Kai who had erected a wall of water. The first purple bolt struck the wall, bursting it with ease as the second thunderbolt flew toward Kai.
"No!" Naruto yelled, and the next moment a large tree cracked the ground, growing to full height in front of Kai. The tree exploded in a shower of wood chips as the powerful lighting bolt impacted.
Naruto arched through the air and rematerialized next to Kai, getting a nod from the older boy. Naruto turned and stared at the calm… teen?
Across from them in the clearing was a teen not much taller than himself, though Naruto sensed that he was older than he appeared, something just didn't feel right about him. The attacker had red eyes, dressed in an over-sized, high-collared coat wrapped with three leather straps, only the upper half of his face and white hair was visible.
Both of them stared at each other for several moments before the mysterious attacker spoke, "Now now… isn't this interesting. The Sanbi seems to have a friend, and a strong one at that." The man laughed, it was a horrible... sickening sound. As the man laughed maniacally, Naruto noticed the scarf wrapped around his neck, a light blue with the Kanji for 3 imprinted on it 'It's just like the man's that attacked Kokuō'
The man's laughter ended, returning to his calm appearance. "Now, I don't know who you are, but if my eyes weren't already set upon another goodie… I would take your interesting powers for myself." The man trailed off, looking slightly down. Naruto peered through the man's garments, seeing the scars and stitches covering him, looking beyond that he found the man's insides to be a disgusting mess of different chakra types.
'What is this guy mother?' Naruto asked, not recognizing these chakra types at all. "Hmm, well he seems to have four different bloodlines at once, something that should be impossible for a non-Ōtsutsuki. He seems to have experimented on himself to make it work." Kaguya commented, looking through Naruto's eyes in curiosity and revulsion at the man's insides. "He has Dark Release, Steel Release, Storm Release, and Swift Release bloodlines. Quite a dangerous combination, watch yourself Naruto-kun." Her warning tone conveying her concern.
Naruto felt out for the man's chakra, latching on to it; he attempted to pull it out of the man, killing him as quickly as possible and not get into a long battle with the man.
The red-eyed man's eyes widened, and his skin suddenly became grey like steel, Naruto lost his connection to the man's chakra as the grey material fully covered the man's visible skin.
"Tsk tsk tsk, trying to steal my chakra is rude you know." The white-haired man scolded, shaking his head. A moment later he disappeared in a burst of speed. Naruto didn't see but painfully felt the metal fist connect with his face, sending him flying into the nearest tree, branches and vines shot out of the tree and caught him before he crashed into it.
Naruto released all his mental limiters on his plant defense's, 'I have to take this guy seriously, my main instant kill technique is ineffective against him.' Naruto winced, his face bruised, though it healed over a moment later as Naruto felt his mothers soothing yōkai flow through him.
"Who are you?" Naruto asked, glaring at the man who stood calmly on the other side of the clearing.
"Name's Hiruko, and I must say, your bloodline is getting more and more enticing," Naruto got the distinct impression that Hiruko was grinning behind his bandages.
Naruto pushed himself to his feet, reaching his hand out toward Kai. The next moment his concentration faltered as his plants sprang up and blocked something, a visible shockwave appearing right by him though he was unable to see the attacker.
"Oh ho, an automatic defense, of plants nonetheless… Hmm." Hiruko said, disappearing once more, Naruto expected the attack and exploded into black and white smoke, causing Hiruko to slow down long enough in surprise before blurring from sight once more.
Naruto reformed next to Kai who had backed up from the battle considerably. "We have to get out of here," Naruto said, still staring at the field, trying to locate Hiruko. The next moment Naruto's eyes pulsed and changed color, his 3 tomoe Sharingan appearing in his eyes.
Naruto's Sharingan formed just fast enough to see Hiruko running toward him, Hiruko's eyes wide and his metallic fist reared back to punch him in the face. Naruto leaned back as fast as he could, seeing that he wasn't physically fast enough he burst into another cloud of smoke.
Instead, Hiruko changed course and punched Kai in the side of the face, hard. Kai went flying through the air before crashing into the ground and rolling, the super speed steel enhanced punch enough to knock him out.
"Ahh, well that's that. But, I must know, that wouldn't happen to be the Sharingan you have there… would it?" Hiruko asked, his voice gleeful as he whirled around and watched Naruto form, attempting to kick him in the face.
Hiruko easily dodged, moving out of the way quickly. "It is, it is! You have the Sharingan and Byakugan, as well as Mokuton apparently?" Hiruko's voice becoming unsure at the end.
"Are you also absorbing bloodlines?" Hiruko asked in suspicion, his eyes narrowing before shrugging. "Doesn't matter, I'll just take yours!" At this, the still entirely metallic Hiruko shot forward at near impossible to track speeds, though to Naruto's Sharingan he was moving at a high Jounin speed, hard to follow but still possible for the boy's powerful eyes.
Naruto twisted out of the way, rupturing into smoke. Vines shot out of the ground and latched around Hiruko's feet, making him trip and throw his hands out to catch himself from falling straight into the dirt. Naruto appeared out of thin air above him, attempting to drop kick him.
Suddenly bandages shot out of Hiruko's sleeves and the back of his jacket, latching onto Naruto's body and leg.
"Tsk tsk," Naruto scowled and burst into black and white smoke once more before appearing a ways away. Hiruko was standing again, having broken the vines.
"I must say you are quite powerful for one so young. When water-baka told us that he'd been beaten by a brat I'd laughed at him. But now seeing you, I can see why he lost after having just battled the Gobi." Hiruko mused aloud, "I must have your Sharingan, my deepest apologies." Hiruko disappeared and reappeared in front of Naruto with his fist cocked back, "Just kidding!"
Hiruko never made the swing, as at that moment a massive amount of vines burst out of the ground, lashing themselves onto Hiruko and wrapping themselves around him. The vines crushing force pulled Hiruko to his knees, promptly restraining him.
Naruto took advantage of Hiruko's predicament, launching over to Kai and throwing the larger unconscious boy over his shoulders before jumping off into the trees, joining a confused Yugito outside the forest they began running toward the gate of Kirigakure.
They made it about halfway before Hiruko appeared in a white blur on the roof in front of them, "I must say your control over plants is unlike anything I have ever heard of, so you've got my brownie points for that." The clearly insane ninja cracked his neck audibly.
"But I'm afraid I can't let you go, you're taking my mark, and as I already said, I would really like your Sharingan." Hiruko's voice sounded like a regretful child's, which Yugito decided was definitely creepy.
'Yugito, take Kai and run for the gate. I'll try to distract him long enough for the Kiri shinobi to arrive.' Yugito resisted a startled jump as Naruto's voice spoke inside her mind. Yugito tensed, waiting for Naruto to move.
Naruto sighed, staring at Hiruko, who he just knew was grinning maniacally. Naruto took a chance, tossing the unconscious Kai to Yugito he flared his chakra, his eyes stinging in pain for a few moments.
"Yes, yes, YES!" Hiruko yelled insanely as he watched Naruto's eyes evolve into a Mangekyo Sharingan. "I really, really, really like your eyes horned-san, can I have em... please?" Hiruko asked childishly, making large begging eyes, which really creeped Naruto out.
"No," Naruto glared at the man, raising his hands he once again tried to steal Hiruko's chakra, Hiruko felt the grasp seemingly once again, and steel flowed over his skin, cutting the connection.
That was all the time Naruto needed, vines exploded out of the tiled roof, reaching for Hiruko's hands and legs. Unfortunately, Hiruko was prepared for the attack, vanishing from sight. Naruto grimaced but was surprised to see that his Mangekyo could easily follow Hiruko's movements, watching the man race across the roof toward him.
"Dai bakuhatsu!" Naruto shouted, flinging his hand in front of him just as Hiruko rushed toward him. The next moment a massive explosion annihilated the roof of the building they were both on to bits, parts of tile and stone sailing through the air.
Naruto's keen eyes tracked the flying Hiruko, his clothes tattered and torn but evidently unharmed. Naruto's eyes faded into the Sharingan and then to his Byakugan as he saw the Mizukage and a large group of Kiri shinobi jumping across the roofs toward them at high speed.
'Need to keep him here long enough for the Mizukage to engage him then make my escape.' Naruto thought, it was a risky plan, but he was willing to go through with it to ensure the safety of his friends and family.
Naruto raised a hand from his side, pointing it up toward Hiruko who had just reached the apex of his ascent from the blast and was now descending swiftly. The next moment huge vines burst out of the street below, twisting and tangling together they climbed before eventually swatting the falling Hiruko down toward the hard, unforgiving concrete road below.
Naruto watched with his 360-degree vision as the Mizukage, and her men surrounded him and Hiruko. The Mizukage stepping forward from the circle of her men and obviously observing the situation carefully.
Naruto realized that Hiruko wouldn't stay down from that and hastened across the roof, plummeting over the edge and drop kicking the hard metallic head of Hiruko who had just gotten to his feet. Hiruko was unfazed by the attack, only giving Naruto a 'you serious?' look.
Naruto leaped off the insane nin and landed a couple yards away. The next moment the beautiful auburn haired Mizukage dropped down into the street with them.
"What in Kami's name is going on here, why the hell are you two fighting in my village?" The Mizukage yelled, not recognizing either of the two ninjas.
Hiruko's shoulders slumped before pointing at Naruto, "Well he started it!" Hiruko cried, then proceeded to throw a tantrum in the street. Naruto and the Mizukage raised an eyebrow at the exact same time at Hiruko's antics.
"I leave you to deal with this Mizukage," Naruto stated evenly, "OH NO, YOU ARE NOT GETTING AWAY FROM ME!" Hiruko cried, launching to his feet and throwing himself through the air toward Naruto.
"Kamigami no bakuhatsu!" Naruto yelled, throwing both hands forward, the next moment the street and nearby buildings shook from three massive explosions that went off between Naruto and Hiruko. Sending the insane white-haired nin flying back through the air toward the Mizukage who merely stepped out of the way.
When the Mizukage looked back to the utterly obliterated street, the other intruder was gone, not a trace left. She gestured to her men watching from above to find the other intruder before turning to the moaning red-eyed man.
"Uhg… Those blasts of his really hurt ya know?" He moaned out, his steel skin fading away as he stood up and looked the Mizukage in the eyes. "Oh, I know you!" He pointed at her, "You're the- Ranton: Sutoraikinguraitoningushadō! (Storm Release: Striking Lightning Shadow!)" Hiruko yelled, a bolt of lightning leaving his fingertip and firing toward the Mizukage at point-blank range, the auburn-haired woman was forced to lean back at a sharp angle to dodge the bolt of purple lightning.
She brought her momentum around, her weight shifting to her hands as her heel came around and attempted to clock Hiruko in the face. Instead, he just dodged out of the way using his extreme speed, "Meh, you aren't as interesting as the boy." He said in a bored tone, turning and walking away.
"Yōton: Yūkai-dan! (Lava Release: Melting bullet!)"
Hiruko darted too the left in an impressive display of speed, dodging the burning globe of lava that blasted past him into the wall at the end of the street, melting a hole in the wall.
"Oh, you've done it now! You wanna play? LET'S PLAY!" Hiruko yelled insanely, twisting around and running toward the Mizukage.
With Naruto
Naruto materialized out of his helix form next to the panting form of Yugito. She was collapsed on the grass quite a considerable distance outside of Kiri, Kai laying on the ground next to her. She was sweating as she took deep panting breathes, having immediately run at her top speed carrying the heavy body of Kai. Overwhelming the gate guard's with one of the unique jutsu's Matatabi had taught her. While she wasn't very good at it, it was enough to surprise the guards and allow her to dart by and run into the misty forest as fast as she could.
"Good job Yugito," Naruto complimented, his eyes locked on the three jounin watching in the trees that had followed Yugito from the gate. Naruto reached out and grabbed their chakra, ripping it all away from them with a solid tug, killing them all immediately. They fell to the forest ground below, dead.
Yugito shot up as she heard the thuds of their bodies hit the ground not far from her. "What was that?" she asked, looking around quickly.
"Nothing, let me carry Kai and let's get going," Naruto said, walking over and lifting up Kai. "We need to put more distance between Kiri and us, you can rest then," Naruto said, getting a nod from Yugito as she got to her feet.
Both of them launched through the trees toward the Land of Grass. 'I wonder if this means I can say I've survived fighting 4 different kage,' Naruto mused as they jumped through the trees. 'Hiruko though, his scarf was the same as the water guy, and he said that the water guy told him about me. Is there some group trying to find my nephew's and niece's?' Naruto thought in concern.
Unknown location
(Woooo…)
A man stood at the large top to bottom window, looking out at the rain crashing on the large lake that was visible. He turned when a loud crash echoed behind him, he raised his eyebrow as he saw a white-haired man wedged partly in the sheetrock wall followed by muttered curses.
"Don't give me that look, it's raining! I can't be expected to keep traction at high speeds." Hiruko huffed, prying himself out of the wall. The man dressed in red sighed, "That's what you said last time, and that's the 4th time this month you've crashed into that exact wall." He commented dryly.
"Hey! Maybe this wall and me have a relationship, what would you know. Mind your own damn business!" Hiruko made an insulting gesture before turning to the large oval table in the room and sitting down at the spot marked 3. Several others were also present, but some seats were empty.
He watched with slight irritation as Hiruko began teasing one of the other people sitting at the table. The man by the window wore a red jacket like cloak with a large red hood that was currently around his neck but usually draped over his face, obscuring his red eyes and light purple hair from view. He wore light brown pants with a kunai pouch on his right leg and high black boots.
Sighing, the man walked over to his spot at the table, sitting down in front of the Kanji for nine.
"Since everyone that is coming is here, let us begin." The purple haired man ordered, "You first Ichi."
"Hai, Kyū-sama. I have been unable to locate the Ichibi jinchuriki after his disappearance from Suna months ago. I also have been hearing reports of a boy, only around 7 years old who goes by the name of Shiroi Oni." The black-haired man's voice was smooth, polished. Kyū raised an eyebrow, Ichi understood and continued, "I wouldn't normally report such a thing, but the one described was very similar to the boy Go described." The one known as Ichi sat back down, his report finished.
Kyū observed as Go leaned back in his seat, staring at the ceiling as water dripped from him continually. "Oi, Kyū-teme!" Kyū growled at San, or otherwise known as Hiruko, though Hiruko was unfazed by the glare from Kyū. "I also met the Shiroi Oni as I went to collect the Sanbi, I had almost captured the brat when he appeared in a helix of black and white chakra, oooo it was such a good fight. So many delicious bloodlines that boy has." Hiruko's eyes gained stars in them as he seemed to stare out into nothingness and the bandages around his mouth got slightly wet.
Kyū sighed, resisting the urge to facepalm. "You said bloodlines? More than one?" Kyū prompted, bring San out of his fantasy, shaking his head he responded, "Yeah! The brat has the Byakugan, Sharingan, Mokuton, and a bloodline I've never seen or heard of before." Hiruko counted off on his bandaged fingers, gaining a look of surprise and shock from everyone in the room except Go.
"Yeah, the brat displayed the ability to control plants when I fought him, though I wasn't aware he possessed the Sharingan or Byakugan at the time." Go stated, still staring at the ceiling, looking down he made eye contact with Hiruko, and they both turned to the woman sitting in the spot labeled 8, directly to the right of Kyū
"The boy also possessed your ability to steal chakra from people," They both said at the exact same time, which was slightly creepy. The red-haired woman looked unamused, "Meh," was her only response.
"Thought you would care a little more than that Hachi," Go remarked amusedly, only getting a bored look from the beautiful redheaded woman.
"Hmm, is there anything else to report?" Kyū asked, his red eyes gazing over everyone present, Hiruko raised his hand and pretended to wilt under his gaze, making him sigh.
"What is it San?" Hiruko seemed to perk up and looked really excited, "Well I didn't get the Sanbi." He suddenly deadpanned, "Duh!" He cried a second later and preceded to punch himself in the face. Kyū sighed, entirely convinced that Hiruko's experiments on himself had made him go insane, Hiruko was a genius no doubt, crazy… definitely.
"This meeting is concluded then, continue your objectives and keep an eye out for this Shiroi Oni, bring him to me if possible. His abilities interest me." Kyū said, slowly being consumed in a red glow which flashed before his body faded to black and started to vanish, his piercing glowing red eyes the last thing to disappear. Everyone took that as the sign to leave, and all vanished from the room in their unique ways.
"Aww crap, I hit the damn wall again!"
Naruto 4 days later
Naruto sat in by a campfire, slowly turning a piece of dear on the spit, making sure that the meat was cooked evenly. Yugito leaned against a tree a couple of feet off, Kai walking back into the clearing carrying more firewood a second later.
Kai's clothes had changed, Naruto creating clothes of chakra for him. He now wore brown themed ninja clothes and ANBU style pants with a black t-shirt. Kai set the wood he was carrying down near the fire before sitting and waiting patiently.
Naruto continued to turn the meat, making sure to cook it thoroughly. Naruto had found that he really did enjoy cooking and preparing food.
"AHHHHHHHH!" Naruto screamed, his hands flying to his head as he fell away from the fire and collapsed on the ground, writhing around in pain.
"Naruto?!" Both Yugito and Kai yelled, running to Naruto's side they tried to find anything wrong with him.
"G-get… Get a-away from me... HURRY!" Naruto screamed, making both Yugito and Kai back up, their eyes wide as Naruto writhed around in pain on the ground.
"GAHHHHHH!" Naruto screamed, and they watched as plants and vines burst out of the ground, whipping through the air violently. Naruto's tightly clenched eyes shot open, and they could see a bright red glow coming from them. As Naruto continued to writhe around in pain screaming, Yugito and Kai watched helplessly as their leader cried in agony.
"MOTHER! WHAT IS GOING ON!?" Naruto screamed out, confusing Yugito and Kai for a few moments before they realized Naruto didn't mean to say that out loud.
"ERGGG AHHHHHHH!" Vines and massive amounts burst from the ground, sending dirt and grass flying as the vines wrapped around Naruto in a cocoon, lifting him a few feet off the ground. Yugito and Kai watched as Naruto disappeared from view within the leaf covered vines. His screams were barely audible.
Eventually, it stopped, Yugito and Kai watched the silent, unmoving cocoon, they inched closer and tried to understand what had happened. Yugito and Kai shared a look and began moving toward the cocoon. "KITTEN GET AWAY FROM THERE!"
BOOOOOM!
Yugito wasn't able to process what occurred as she abruptly found herself soaring through the air, her whole body in pain. The next instant she crashed into a tree, denting it and tumbling to the ground. She groaned loudly from the pain and the loud ringing in her ears.
She rolled over and tried to get to her feet, only succeeding in getting to her hands and knees, her eyes opened painfully. Yugito's mind froze in amazement and shock at what she saw where Naruto had been within the cocoon.
The vines were entirely gone, the ground scarred and blackened majorly all around the center of the explosion. Everything around in a 50-foot diameter had been blasted away violently, but that was not what amazed her.
It was Naruto, slowly reforming out of multicolored particles in mid-air and floating slightly above the ground. He had changed from how he'd just been, now taller, somewhat taller than Yugito.
His two forehead horns had moved and multiplied, now having 3 brown horns sprouting out of the left and right side of his head above his ears. His hair remained the same, the bandaged bang still falling down the side of his face, though all his hair was slightly longer. He now wore a large white cloak that went past his knees, on the back was a large tree beautiful design of a Kaminoki, nine tomoe hung from the tree like fruit. The cloak had long sleeves that ended with a black cloth going up his hand and wrapping around his index fingers. Underneath that he wore a long black high necked shirt that slit up the left and right side, around his middle was a belt of purple cloth, the two ends hanging from his waist on the right side. Underneath his long black shirt, he wore grey pants that ended at his black boots, the boots had white lines on them that all connected to a circle directly over his ankle on the front of his foot. All his toes were visible like most shinobi sandals.
Yugito and Kai looked on in awe as the changed Naruto's red eyes spun before fading to his normal pupil-less pale Byakugan.
Naruto dropped from the air and landed softly on the ground, lifting a hand he held it to the side of his face, stumbling a bit before regaining his composure.
"I really don't want to do that again," Naruto groaned.
With Naruto moments before
Naruto turned the meat, observing it to make sure it was cooked all the way through, he couldn't explain it, but he enjoyed cooking and preparing meals, making them as perfect as possible and then savoring them.
Naruto's head suddenly pulsed in extreme pain, Naruto lost control over his body as the agony overwhelmed him. "AHHHHHHH!" Naruto screamed, holding his head as the pain rose. Naruto began writhing around on the ground, trying to relieve the burning within his mind. 'What… what is happening?!'
Naruto barely processed that Kai and Yugito had come up to him, he couldn't think straight, the pain overwhelming and spreading to his entire body. "G-get… Get a-away from me… HURRY!" Naruto yelled, slamming down on to the grass again, the pain rising again. "GAHHHHHH!"
"MOTHER! WHAT IS GOING ON!?" Naruto finally processed that he had a mother as he finally recognized the yōkai of his mother flowing through him. "NARUTO! It's going to be okay honey, your bloodline is evolving into the second stage on its own. This is going to hurt worse, hold in there musuko!" Came Kaguya's voice, she pushed her yōkai through Naruto's body faster.
'Do something Āsutsurī!' Kaguya mentally yelled at her husband, the pain of her son making her frantic. The Kaminoki immediately responded, moving his already extended plants around Naruto and wrapping his screaming son in a cocoon, channeling his senchakra into his son to help relieve the pain and speed up the process.
Naruto writhed inside the cocoon stopping when he felt the pain draining away, panting heavily he tried to regain his breath. The pain slammed back instantly at full strength, and Naruto wasn't even able to scream before his body exploded violently, sending everything nearby flying and obliterating the wrapping of vines around him. A black and white vapor hung in the air for several moments as Naruto's mind was unable to process anything.
Slowly his body began to reform back together, Naruto's senses returning. He couldn't think from the pain, and he barely heard mothers concerned yelling, trying to get him to answer.
Naruto brought his hand up to his face, feeling… different, but somehow right. 'I feel free like a large heavy weight was lifted from me, weightless. What happened?' Naruto wondered, "Your body has gone into the second stage of your bloodline. You are essentially living chakra at this point, returned to your natural state entirely, but still a retaining a humanoid form." Kaguya said, "I'll explain it later, you need to talk to your friends." Kaguya said, seeing Naruto's bruised and dust covered friends staring at him in awe.
Naruto smiled weakly at his friends, "I really don't want to do that again," He offered lamely before collapsing to the ground onto his knees.
"WHAT THE HELL JUST HAPPENED?" Yugito screamed, her ears still ringing and her face showing her anger, annoyance, and confusion quite clearly.
"Something to do with his bloodline I bet," Kai said, walking back into the clearing from the trees, surprisingly calm for what just happened, Naruto nodded at him.
"My bloodline suddenly shifted into the next stage without warning," Naruto explained, getting an understanding nod from Kai, nothing seemed to phase that boy.
"Why do you look different?" Yugito asked, pointing at him. Naruto's face showed his confusion before he activated his Byakugan, immediately looking at his new form. 'Mother, what exactly just happened to me.' Naruto asked in confusion as he laid back on the grass, exhausted.
"My apologies for that, I need to find out what happened," Naruto explained to his friends, his eyes glazing over. Yugito and Kai nodded before both of their eyes glazed over as well, obviously entering into a conversation with their inner Bijuu.
"Okay, as I said before you are a living entity of chakra, though usually, you had to concentrate on forcibly changing your body into chakra to use your Onmyō no fukukaze, or your helix form." Kaguya began, calming herself down from the stress and fear she'd felt when Naruto suddenly shifted into the second level of his bloodline, 'I'm going to make sure the last level is not painful for my baby.' Kaguya swore to herself.
"You don't have to use your Onmyō no fukukaze anymore. Anyone who attempts to hurt you with weapons, jutsu, or taijutsu will not succeed. People who try to inflict physical damage will go right through you, but don't worry you can still inflict damage on them, you just have to concentrate on which part of your body you want to make solid." Kaguya explained, getting a stronger nod from her son as he visibly calmed down and regained his composure, listening carefully to her.
"Enemy jutsu may make your body explode, but as you just experienced, you reform quickly. Your already perfect chakra control is now beyond human imagination, and all your other techniques should be even easier now." Kaguya's voice suddenly slipped into a warning tone, drawing Naruto's attention. "You must be aware, you do have a large weakness now. People who can absorb chakra can steal it from you and if given enough time absorb you entirely. It wouldn't kill you, as you would come into the mindscape with us but you would be greatly weakened."
Naruto focused back on his surroundings and stood to his feet, his eyes focusing on himself as he took in his new slightly taller height, form, and clothes. "As I said before, if a jinchuriki went through what you just did, the explosion of chakra would be enough to alert the entire elemental nations. Quite possibly they wouldn't survive it," Kaguya commented, getting another mental nod from Naruto who was now focusing on his horns that had moved from the front of his head to the side. There were now 6 of them in total, two large ones at either side of his head, two smaller ones directly under that and two even smaller ones under those. All lined up above his ears.
'Mother, did you design my new clothes?' Naruto asked suspiciously, knowing that even though he had just gone through a bloodline change of sorts, it wouldn't have changed what he was wearing. "Maybe? Do you not like it?" Naruto could distinctly tell his mother was worried, 'No, I do like them. I was just wondering.'
"Well I was going to give them to you as your birthday present, but then this happened and I thought now would be a good time," Kaguya explained, happy that Naruto liked the clothes she had designed for him. 'Thank you Kaa-san, they are wonderful.'
"Naruto, why do you look somewhat older now?" Kai inquired, brushing the dust off himself, Yugito still talking to her Bijuu as her eyes were glazed over.
Naruto's face showed clearly that he didn't know the answer to that and his eyes glazed over for a moment, "Mother says it's a side effect of the bloodline." Naruto explained with a small shrug, getting a look of annoyance from Yugito.
"The new clothes?"
"Mother made them for me."
"Did you really have to explode and send me into a tree?!" Yugito interrupted, Matatabi had explained what happened to the extent that she understood it, but Yugito was still pissed off at getting launched into a tree.
Naruto winced slightly, "My apologies for hurting you Yugito, Kai." Naruto gave a respectful bow toward the two jinchuriki.
"We need to travel on, this campsite is ruined and unsafe now," Kai said, looking at the utterly destroyed and blackened campsite in the forest.
Naruto nodded in agreement, at that moment he noticed the tears and cut's in Yugito's and Kai's clothes from the explosion. He waved his hand, and the clothes formed back together like they had never been damaged.
"Hey! How did you do that?" Yugito asked in surprise, observing her now perfect sleeve.
"Your clothes are made from my chakra, I have perfect control over all of my chakra," Naruto explained in his normal peaceful voice, confused at the suspicious look he got from Yugito. "So you could make all my clothes disappear with a wave of your hand huh? Pervert!" Yugito yelled, pointing at him. Kai just sighed in apparent weariness.
Naruto's near emotionless face never changed as he stared at Yugito, "I can see through your clothes anyway." He deadpanned, making Yugito blush in embarrassment as she realized that he was right.
Naruto shook his head, his now even longer white hair tossing through the air. "Let us go."
2 days later
Naruto stood in the shadows on top of a high wall, his new white cloak fluttering in the late afternoon breeze that blew through the village below him. His ever watching eyes scanned across the village, searching for his goal.
Naruto was currently standing on the wall that surrounded Konoha. Since to reach the Land of Grass from the Land of Water, they had to travel either through or around the Land of Fire, Naruto had decided to go through it since his father had informed him that a portion of his energy was in Konoha and wished for him to absorb it. Naruto was still slightly confused as to why his father had split his power across the world, then asked him to find it and return it. 'There must be a good reason for it though,' Naruto mused, making a note to ask him about it later.
Kai and Yugito were staying in a cave a ways away from Konoha, Yugito had been against being left behind, but Kai had made her see the logic, something he was very good at.
Naruto's keen eyes gaze across the village, he was peering through the large sealing chakra detection dome right in front of him that covered the village. Naruto knew that once he passed through the dome, the village would be alerted to his presence, though he doubted they would be able to find him.
Naruto's sharp eyes suddenly picked up something, at the front gate of the village was the buff light haired Raikage, three jounin surrounding him, the only one Naruto recognized was the one who always looked bored.
'I can use this to my advantage.' Naruto quickly burst into a black and white smoke that he spread out to make it much harder to see. He reached the gate just as the Raikage was walking through the invisible detection wall, flying into the village above the man he hoped he had fooled the detection barrier.
Naruto waited as a thin nearly invisible mist in the air, waiting to see if the village reacted to his presence. He was relieved when nothing noticeable happened and began again searching for the presence of his father's power within the place.
Naruto ignored the bustling activity of the village beneath him, the Raikage and his Jounin following a group of ANBU toward the Hokage tower. Naruto wondered why the Raikage was here but decided it ultimately didn't concern him.
'There!' Naruto located the familiar green glow of his father's chakra underground. Following the tunnel connecting it, he found an entrance above ground that was held up by a large red torii gate. Naruto moved through the air with ease before settling down on the earth in front of the entrance. Having already seen the two hidden ANBU guards he appeared in plain sight of them both.
The ANBU jumped down in front of the now hooded youth, swords drawn, "You cannot enter here, leave now!" The ANBU were confused by the presence of the cloaked in white boy but followed their orders, no one was to enter here.
Naruto reached both hands toward each ANBU, making them tense. Naruto's face was emotionless as he ripped most of the two ANBU's chakra from them, causing them both to pass out in chakra exhaustion as Naruto left them with just the bare minimum a human required to live.
Naruto absorbed their chakra, enjoying the feel of it as it joined him. The pale-skinned child of the Kaminoki walked to the large red gates blocking his path to his father's powers. The half Kaminoki observed the complicated seals covering the door, he quickly gave up trying to decode it as he was not able to understand such a complicated and intricate seal.
"Let's see if this works then," Naruto muttered, putting his left hand in the middle of the seal on the kanji for barrier. Naruto smirked slightly as the massive, intricate seal flowed across the surface of the wood into his arm, a moment later kanji glowed on his arm before disappearing, having absorbed the seal into his own body.
Naruto kicked the massive gates open before erupting into smoke and speeding through the halls, ignoring all the intricate scrolls and weapons covering the walls, his eyes entirely focused on his target.
Naruto rounded yet another corner, his vapor like form impacting and flowing around a mannequin wearing old armor before he materialized in front of his target. It was a giant pulsing oval green orb, it was attached to the walls by roots that were wrapped around it. Naruto quickly walked up to it and placed his hand on it.
The next moment Naruto felt his father's presence in the room before the orb began to shrink and flow into his body. Naruto shuddered in excitement and happiness as the great senchakra of his father flowed into his body. Not long later he'd completely absorbed the orb, the roots that had held it up drooping lifeless. He smiled as he felt his father's equivalent to thanks and him being proud of him.
"Naruto, you ought to look around and see what else is in this place, I saw some exciting weapons a couple halls back," Kaguya commented, and Naruto got the distinct impression that his mother was eating popcorn and watching his sight like a horror movie. The spooky and dark halls with poor lighting definitely gave the right feel.
Naruto walked through the halls, observing the many intriguing items on the walls. There was a black cape spread out on one section of the wall, in another part there was a massive water-filled glass tank with a gigantic fish creature that stared at him as he walked by.
Naruto paused in front of another glass wall, beyond the glass was a tangled wiggling mess of black strings. Naruto turned to walk away and noticed the strings pointing at him, following him as he left.
Naruto narrowed his eyes at the black mass, feeling a… presence within those tangled black strands. 'How is that possible? Is it a sentient entity of chakra?' Naruto decided to just wing it, placing his hand against the glass he watched as the strings extended against his hand on the other side of the thick glass.
Naruto reached out with his mind, surprised to find that the strings did indeed have a conscious. It was similar to his father's but different, nowhere near as sophisticated, more primal and based on instincts. But the way it communicated was the same as his father's... emotions, feelings, memories. Naruto had learned over the months how to speak in the way of the Kaminoki, something that had come exceptionally easy to him.
Naruto pushed his confusion, want for answers and explanation through the connection to the writhing ball of string. A moment later he was nearly overloaded with the threads near frantic overload of memories, it's want to escape from its prison flowing over the Ōtsutsuki heir.
Naruto began quickly sorting through the memories of the strings. It's first memories being under the control of a buff man with green eyes and red sclera. It had taken care of its master for several decades, getting smarter and understanding more but still taking care of its host. It fought for its master, healed and stitching him back together, absorbing the hearts of its master's enemies and allowing its master to use the heart's powers.
Naruto watched 4 different visions of one memory, the strings had been allowed out of their master's body once more to fight, the threads split and multiplied into 4 different creatures made of black strands, taking with them a heart each from their master's body with which to sustain themselves outside of their hosts body.
Naruto watched as the powerful masked man that was the strings master go through hand seals, one of the points of view mouths opened and fired a massive torrent of flames. His focus shifted, and he saw what the fire was directed at, surprised to see the man he'd read about in scrolls in Suna. The Shodai Hokage, Hashirama Senju and the only person to ever be gifted the Mokuton bloodline from his father.
Naruto watched the battle speed by, the strands showing him how they were slowly defeated by their masters enemy, the heart's within them being crushed and rejoining with their master's body who only had one heart remaining. The strings master turned to run, knowing he would die if his last heart were destroyed. But it was not to be, the Shodai Hokage fired a spike of wood through his retreating back, crushing the last heart.
Their master fell over dead, and the strings vacated his now empty body. Knowing they had to find a new host to support them, they squirming toward the only other life form nearby. They were trapped inside a sphere of wood by the Shodai Hokage a moment later before they reached him.
After that, they had been put in this glass cage, given one heart with which to survive on. Since then the threads had sat in this cage for over 50 years. Naruto could feel their sadness and loneliness at being left alone for so long, wanting a new master with which to support and take care of. The strings desperation came strongly through the seal, begging him to take it with him, to free them. Naruto sent back a positive feeling, making it clear though that they could not merge with his body though.
The strings understanding came through the gateway, the large ball of strings moving closer to the glass, pressing up against it excitedly. The next moment Naruto felt their name come through the connection: Jiongu.
Naruto smiled, knowing that this living ball of strings was no different from his own nephews and nieces. It was a living, conscious entity, and it was being locked up for no fault of its own as a spoil of war. Naruto reared back his hand and punched the glass as hard as he could. Cracking it only slightly.
Naruto changed tactics, not wanting to accidentally hurt the Jiongu he refrained from blasting the glass to kingdom come. Instead, vines burst out of the ground around him, slamming into the glass. Two big slams later the glass shattered and the Jiongu was finally free, rolling out of the cage and onto the ground.
Naruto could feel the intense feeling of gratitude from the ball of black thread, he sent memories of him sealing things into himself to the ball, receiving its understanding in return. Naruto sent them the emotional equivalent of a promise to find them a host. The next moment he sealed the Jiongu into his hand, heart and all.
"That was very kind of you Naruto-kun, I'm so proud of you!" Kaguya said warmly, Naruto felt her warmth and pride of him through the seal. "Now I'm going to go talk to the Jiongu, I'm very interested into how it came to exist," Kaguya said, cutting the connection. Naruto smiled, knowing that Kaguya would probably be talking to the Jiongu for some time.
Naruto took another glance around the underground bunker of sorts, there were plenty of things, but nothing really stood out to him. Bursting into smoke he flowed down the halls and out the gateway up into the air, flying toward the entrance to the village.
As Naruto flew through the now night sky, barely visible in the moonlight he heard his mother, "Musuko, something is wrong, concentrate some chakra into your ears so I can be sure of it." Kaguya ordered sternly, surprising Naruto enough to make him stop in mid-air, but he did so. What Naruto heard made him narrow his eyes in anger as he quickly located the source of the sound.
"Hurry Naruto-kun, that was the sound of a small child crying in fear, they can't be more than 2 to 3 years old. A child crying like that and then suddenly silencing, and moving so quickly is unusual." Kaguya ordered sternly, the next moment she actually paid attention to Naruto's vision and saw he had already found the source of the crying noise.
There was a shinobi with the symbol of Kumo on his forehead leaping quickly through the trees, a sack on his shoulder. Inside the bag, Naruto could see a young girl. Kaguya could clearly feel her sons anger through their mental link as he shot through the air after the Jounin.
Naruto appeared in his solid form, several yards above the sprinting Kumo nin, his white cloak fluttering as he dropped and kicked the unsuspecting man in the side of the head, catching the restrained girl in mid-air and alighting softly on the ground, his natural elegance showing. The shinobi spun through the air before impacting heavily with the dirt.
Naruto unlaced the sack, helping the girl out of it. He noticed for the first time her long brown hair and her pale eyes. 'Hyūga then, and she's been beaten pretty thoroughly.' Naruto observed, seeing the bruises and bloody cuts covering the crying girl.
"Are you okay?" Naruto asked, only getting a scream from the small girl, "I'm sorry, did I scare you?" Naruto asked, realizing that his horns and strange non-human appearance probably frightened the girl. The brunette trembled in fright, trying to squirm out of the rest of the sack and away from the demonic looking boy in front of her.
The 3-year-old girl froze as she saw the Kumo nin who had kidnapped her rise from the ground, groaning and muttering curses. The Hyūga girl looked back to the demonic boy with wide eyes, noticing for the first time that the strange person in front of her was looking at her calmly, with concern and warmth in his eyes and a smile. The girl at that moment realized he had the same eyes as her, immediately trusting the strange horned boy more, looking into his matching eyes and back to the ninja who had now stood and was glaring at them she said the only thing that came to mind.
"Help,"
The shinobi named Leiko tilted his head to the side, spitting out the soil and grass that was stuck in his mouth, as well as some blood. He glared at the admittedly frightening demonic looking Ōtsutsuki heir in front of him. Seeing the white-haired horned boy moving protectively between him and his captive, the demon's blank eyes narrowing at him.
"Scram demon, this doesn't concern you!" Leiko spat, glaring into the pale eyes of the demon, noticing that he had the Byakugan. 'Aww hell, he's some sort of protector of the Hyūga? The reports didn't say anything like this!'
"Hmm…" Came the calm, dangerously tone of the boy who stared back at him. "How about… no," Leiko growled at the response, pulling out a kunai he shifted his stance, 'Regardless, I must bring the Hyūga back to Raikage-sama.'
"Fine then, prepare to die a pointless death!" Leiko declared boldly, attempting to intimidate the pale-skinned demon spawn. The next moment he found himself slammed into a tree harshly, he tried to move his arms and legs but found he couldn't.
Naruto narrowed his eyes at the ninja, holding him up by his neck against the tree, vines binding the man as they flowed out of the tree.
"Now," Naruto started, "I'm going to ask you some questions, and you'll answer them truthfully," His tone threatening, he got a glare from the admittedly brave shinobi in front of him.
"Who are you?"
"None of your damn- ack!" Leiko fought down the urge to scream as he felt his insides constrict, his chakra refusing to flow and being crushed down inside him, the next instant the painful abnormal sensation disappeared. He wheezed and looked into the unblinking eyes of the demon in front of him.
"I'll ask again… answer correctly." Naruto's threat was followed by a light squeeze on his chakra pools. Leiko leaned forward and attempted to spit in the demon's face, though it missed entirely when he merely tilted his head out of the way. Naruto had seen the saliva forming in the man's mouth before he'd spit.
"This is pointless, Genjutsu: Sharingan!" Naruto muttered, and the next moment Leiko saw glaring red eyes before his vision and mind blanked, unable to withstand the power of the cursed eyes.
"What is your name?"
"Rasta Leiko, Chunin in the ranks of Kumo," Came Leiko's monotone emotionless reply, his eyes blanked and unfocused.
"Now we're finally getting somewhere, who is this girl?" Naruto spoke in a calm voice, gesturing to the wide-eyed Hyūga behind him who'd backed up against a nearby tree and was now staring at the scene before her.
"She is the second daughter of the Hyūga clan head Hiashi Hyūga, Hanabi Hyūga, age three. While the Raikage distracted the Hokage with a peace treaty and the story of the attack on our village by a hooded boy, I kidnapped her and was to bring her to a meeting point with the Raikage."
"Why?"
"The Raikage is extremely interested in the power of the Byakugan which would be a great boon to our village, the white-clothed boy who attacked our village also had the Byakugan," Leiko replied, still staring into space blankly.
"Hmm, tell me when her birthday is," Was Naruto's peculiar order, "March 27th," Leiko responded in a monotone.
Naruto nodded seemingly to himself before backing away from the man, releasing his genjutsu over the man.
"W-wha happened?" Leiko moaned, his eyes refocusing.
"I am sparing your life, but I'm leaving you there. Konoha Shinobi are coming," Naruto said, calmly walking away toward Hanabi who was looking at him curiously now, no longer scared of the horned boy, the fact that he had her eyes making her feel safer.
"Who are you?!" Leiko asked, truly frightened as he realized what Konoha would do to him for kidnapping the youngest of the Hyūga clan head.
"I am the Shiroi Oni." The next second Leiko's vision clouded and he passed into unconsciousness. A flower had grown out of the tree and ejected a pink gas into his face.
"You are coming with me Hanabi," Naruto said kindly, lifting the young 3-year old into his arms, channeling his chakra into her and beginning to slowly heal her wounds. Hanabi yawned, the warmth of Naruto's unique chakra enveloping her and making her sleepy, she curled against Naruto's chest as he shot through the trees.
"Dada," Hanabi said sleepily, surprising Naruto who raised a clipped eyebrow. 'She doesn't have a father now…' Naruto thought, he knew that he could return the girl to the Hyūga, but he also knew of the clan's arrogance and cruelty. Kaguya had watched that clan especially over the years as they inherited the Ōtsutsuki eyes, and she had expressed her extreme displeasure with the family and their arrogant pride to Naruto before.
"You know musuko, you're growing up so fast I can barely keep up! I do believe a normal mother would say you are too young to raise a kid, but then again you aren't really all that young either. Besides, you have others to help you, Kai and Yugito, Gaara, Kazumi, and Rei." Kaguya said, and feeling of pride coming through the link as well as her tone told Naruto that she was proud of him and supported his decision.
"Besides, you will be a better father than that despicable human Hiashi." Kaguya's anger and loathing were clear. "And I want to help raise her too, don't forget that Naruto-kun! I want you to introduce her to me at some point." Kaguya switched emotions on a dime, pestering her son until he agreed.
"And I think she likes you, she called you 'dada' didn't she?" Kaguya teased, getting a roll of his eyes from her son. Naruto smiled at the peaceful look on Hanabi's face, her wounds fully healed over now. 'I think Kaa-san is right,' Naruto mused to himself, 'I will do my best to be a good father Hanabi-chan.'
END CHAPTER - 9,108 words
If you think the stories moving too quickly…
A. Stop reading it.
B. Come back when you realize that this story is already over 70k words long. Most stories are all like, I got rinnegan by the second chapter or even in the first one, 3k words in.
I am only posting this chapter so soon after the last one due to the fact that I wrote Chapter 13 much faster than I thought I would. This one didn't have as many grammar mistakes so I was able to finish it faster.
Answers to reviews posted on chapter 7:
Shapeshifter340: First off, can I say that I see you everywhere. I am posting this, so enjoy :D
Antex: Glad you enjoyed it mate. In response to your question about Nakada, it can be assumed that he'd already awoken it from beatings in Konoha. That was part of the idea why it was had almost full tomoe. Usually, it starts with one, then gains more over time through training. As too the possible antagonist comment, read and see o.O
Azaira: You are welcome, here have another *throws another chapter at you*
Possibly a fanfiction concept, like how the civilian council is a concept the fanfiction community for Naruto invented.
StrikerTheFallen: Danka! I will do my best
Ezeakel: Thank you, I'm assuming that my grammar and such was better as you didn't point out any errors.
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